In the passages about community prayer, Benedict is very precise and ordered about when, how and which psalms are to be prayed. He regulates standing and bowing, time and manner. He definitely knows what the "ideal" for prayer is.
At the end of Chapter 18, however, Benedict shows true wisdom in allowing individual communities to adjust the order and manner if necessary to the circumstances of the local area. There is wisdom in placing this elasticity in the Rule so that although things might look a little different from monastery to monastery the basic values are still able to be preserved even 15 centuries later.
Sr. Catherine, OSB
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