# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "01-14"
label:
  la: "Cápite 2 Régulæ Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti: Qualis débeat abbas esse"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 2: What Kind of Man an Abbot Ought to Be. Continued."
text:
  la: |
    Memínere debet semper abbas quod est, memínere quod dícitur, et scire quia cui plus commíttitur, plus ab eo exígitur. Sciátque quam diffícilem et árduam rem súscipit, régere ánimas et multórum servíre móribus, et álium quidem blandiméntis, álium vero increpatiónibus, álium suasiónibus; et secúndum uniuscujúsque qualitátem vel intellegéntiam, ita se ómnibus confórmet et aptet ut non solum detriménta gregis sibi commíssi non patiátur, verum in augmentatióne boni gregis gáudeat.
  en: |
    The abbot ought always to remember what he is, to remember what he is styled and to know that to whom more is committed from him is more required; and let him know how difficult and arduous a matter he has undertaken, namely, to govern souls and to adapt himself to many dispositions. One with gentleness, another with rebukes, another with persuasion, so let him, according to the character and intelligence of each, mould and adapt himself, that not only may no injury accrue to the flock entrusted to him, but that he may actually have occasion to rejoice in the increase of his flock’s welfare.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
