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X-WR-CALDESC:<i>Every age and level of understanding should receive appropr
 iate treatment. Therefore\, as often as the young\, or those who cannot un
 derstand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication\, are guilty of
  misdeeds\, they should be subjected to severe fasts or checked with sharp
  strokes so that they may be healed.</i>\n\nIn the early centuries of mona
 sticism\, it was not uncommon for people to dedicate their children to rel
 igious life at a very early age or\, much in the style of later boarding s
 chools\, to send them to an abbey for education where they lived very like
  the monastics themselves. The monastery\, then\, was a family made up of 
 multiple generations. Benedict made provisions for every member of the com
 munity. Life in the Benedictine tradition was not a barracks or a prison o
 r an exercise in deindividuation. On the contrary.\n\nIn the age of Benedi
 ct\, however\, the corporal punishment of children was a given. It was a g
 iven\, in fact\, in the homes and schools of our own time until\, in the l
 ate twentieth century\, social psychology detected the relationship betwee
 n violence in society and violence against children. Only in our time has 
 it finally become been questionable for a teacher to whip a student or for
  a parent to spank a child. The question is then\, should this chapter now
  be discounted in the Rule? Children don't enter monastic communities anym
 ore and children are not raised in them. The answer surely is no. The real
  lesson of the chapter is not that young people should be beaten. The cont
 inuing value of the chapter is that it reminds us quite graphically that n
 o one approach is equally effective with everyone. No two people are exact
 ly the same. In bringing people to spiritual adulthood we must use every t
 ool we have: love\, listening\, counsel\, confrontation\, prayer that God 
 may intervene where our own efforts are useless and\, finally\, if all els
 e fails\, amputation from the group.\n\nThe real point of this and all sev
 en preceding chapters of the penal code of the Rule is that Benedictine pu
 nishment is always meant to heal\, never to destroy\; to cure\, not to cru
 sh.
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DESCRIPTION:<i>Every age and level of understanding should receive appropri
 ate treatment. Therefore\, as often as the young\, or those who cannot und
 erstand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication\, are guilty of 
 misdeeds\, they should be subjected to severe fasts or checked with sharp 
 strokes so that they may be healed.</i>\n\nIn the early centuries of monas
 ticism\, it was not uncommon for people to dedicate their children to reli
 gious life at a very early age or\, much in the style of later boarding sc
 hools\, to send them to an abbey for education where they lived very like 
 the monastics themselves. The monastery\, then\, was a family made up of m
 ultiple generations. Benedict made provisions for every member of the comm
 unity. Life in the Benedictine tradition was not a barracks or a prison or
  an exercise in deindividuation. On the contrary.\n\nIn the age of Benedic
 t\, however\, the corporal punishment of children was a given. It was a gi
 ven\, in fact\, in the homes and schools of our own time until\, in the la
 te twentieth century\, social psychology detected the relationship between
  violence in society and violence against children. Only in our time has i
 t finally become been questionable for a teacher to whip a student or for 
 a parent to spank a child. The question is then\, should this chapter now 
 be discounted in the Rule? Children don't enter monastic communities anymo
 re and children are not raised in them. The answer surely is no. The real 
 lesson of the chapter is not that young people should be beaten. The conti
 nuing value of the chapter is that it reminds us quite graphically that no
  one approach is equally effective with everyone. No two people are exactl
 y the same. In bringing people to spiritual adulthood we must use every to
 ol we have: love\, listening\, counsel\, confrontation\, prayer that God m
 ay intervene where our own efforts are useless and\, finally\, if all else
  fails\, amputation from the group.\n\nThe real point of this and all seve
 n preceding chapters of the penal code of the Rule is that Benedictine pun
 ishment is always meant to heal\, never to destroy\; to cure\, not to crus
 h.
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LOCATION:Chapter 30
SUMMARY:The Manner of Reproving The Young
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