Religious Rules

Berkeley, Thursday, February 19, 2026 00:29 AM

This is also a project, I will be typing bit by bit. I understand that probably AI could give a product with a comparative matrix by doing the search, but there is a lot that goes in the process of buying (or even harvesting) and preparing the food, preparing the plants, or even knitting, which I, unfortunately, do not know; but the point is that also writing or drawing is a way of learning. There is much more on the thinking and process on writing a product, than just reading the final result. i assume the same is with composing music. Or with painting.

Catholic religious orders have had official guides, or rules of life, for centuries. Some of those are the Rule of Saint Pachomius (circa 320 AD), Rule of Saint Basil (c. 356-358), Rule of Saint Augustine (c. 400), Rule of Saint Benedict (c. 516 ), Rule of Saint Columbanus (c. 600), Rule of Saint Albert rule (c. 1026 – 1214), Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi (1209 / 1223). [Gemini helped me to get this in Chronological Order]

The Carmelite Rule

Written by Saint Albert of Jerusalem in the year 1206. Saint Albert was the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem at that time [ref 1 & 2]. My understanding is that the The Carmelite Hermits reached out him to pen a rule of life for them. Saint Albert’s rule is quite similar to Saint Augustine rule. I would learn the differences after writing them down. I will see what I can extract or learn from this exercise. At the end, somehow I am basing knowledge on rules that have lasted millennia and centuries. On my self is to provide structure, productivity, growth. But, probably, I am talking too much already. Noise it is not good. it is definitely a distraction.

The ‘primitive’ rule of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel written by or given by St. Albert, was corrected, emended, and confirmed by Pope Innocent IV [ref 2] in the year 1247 (According to Google Search. Thank you Google].

Transcribing the Saint’s Alberts Rule of Life below from references [ref 12, and 3; but I mainly will do it from 3]

[1] Albert, called by God’s favor to be Patriarch of the Church of Jerusalem, bids health in the Lord and…

References

[ref 1] https://carmelites.net/the-carmelite-rule/

[ref 2] https://www.discalcedcarmel.org/our-carmelite-spirituality/the-rule-of-st-albert#:~:text=You%20must%20give%20yourselves%20to,an%20example%20you%20might%20imitate

[ref 3] https://stjosephcarmel.weebly.com/rule-of-saint-albert.html