Recovering Benedict

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John Edward Crean Jr.. Recovering Benedict

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Recovering Benedict consciously tries to connect the dots between the twelve steps first published in The Big Book—Alcoholics Anonymous with the seventy-three chapters of the Rule of Benedict. The format of each daily reading is in two parts: first, the appointed daily reading from the Rule and then my reflection on it.

Both the text and my reflections rely on English translations of Benedict’s Rule. With the kind permission of the Community of Mount Saint Benedict in Erie, Pennsylvania, I quote from A Reader’s Version of the Rule of Saint Benedict in Inclusive Language, edited and adapted by Sister Marilyn Schauble, OSB, and Barbara Wojciak. During many of my reflections, I often quote from the Rule as translated by Leonard J. Doyle, OSB, St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries (Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 1948). I am grateful to both publishers for permission to quote from their texts, but I owe my greatest debt to Professor Julian G. Plante, late curator of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library at St. John’s, Collegeville, Minnesota, who first whetted my appetite for the Rule of Benedict.

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May you experience all the serenity

that sober living can bring about.

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