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The work of Saint Augustine has been at the center of a conflagration of enthusiasm in the Christian Church and beyond it for over fifteen hundred years. The precocious teenager who became a Manichean, the reveler who became a bishop, the bishop who became a saint-millions have been inspired to sanctity by the story of this fourth century Latin Father of the Church and millions more by the sublimity of his doctrine. Fewer, however, are familiar with the Rule he wrote to govern the monastic life of his small religious community at Thagaste in Africa, and later the life of his own priests as Bishop of Hippo. In a series of seventeen conferences, Fr. Walter Wagner, OP of the Saint Joseph Province of the Order of Preachers, offers his reflections on this ancient Rule. With wisdom and wit, he unearths Saint Augustine's finest ideals for living the Christian life and concretely applies them to 21st Century Dominican Life as it is lived today by thousands of priests, brothers, nuns, sisters, and lay men and women. Enlightening and challenging, both brand-new Christian and wizened Diamond Jubilarian will benefit from this delightful commentary. The book is now in its Second Edition.