We are all members of some community. New brothers, and new sisters join our community from time to time. This ‘Rule’ was written for a ‘religious’ community, the kind of community traditional in the Church. But its message is also for ordinary men and women, young and old in society. It speaks of the simple ways, the virtues human or heroic, needed to enable us to live with one another. It teaches us to give and to receive. So this Rule may speak to you for it is loving and reasonable, humane and Christian. As a reviewer of the original Ducth edition wrote: ‘I do not hesitate to put it in the same class as the Rule of the Brothers of Taize’.