“A Rule of Life is simply a handbook to make the very radical demands of the gospel a practical reality in daily life.”
Urban Abbey has chosen to follow the Rule of Life written by Columbanus in the 6th century. We have taken his Rule and contextualized it for our own time and place in history, calling it The Urban Abbey Rule of Life. We have also created a shorter Rule of Life for quick reference. This Rule helps us to understand how we embody a Jesus-way-of-being in this world, based on the scriptures he left for our learning and encouragement.
A final thought from Columbanus’ own pen. We Irish: “We Irish, inhabitants of the world’s edge, are disciples of Saints Peter and Paul and of all the disciples who wrote the sacred canon by the Holy Spirit, and we accept nothing outside the evangelical and apostolic teaching” (Letter 5.3).
URBAN ABBEY'S SHORTER RULE OF LIFE
Art attribution for background in each image.
Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, c. 1809, oil on canvas, 43" x 67 1/2" /110 x 171.5 cm (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin)