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1st Degree: To Fear God
2nd Degree: To Renounce His Own Will
3rd Degree: To Obey The Superior
4th Degree: To Accept Hard Commandments With Patience
5th Degree; To Accept Hard Commandments With Patience
6th Degree: To Be Content With The Least
7th Degree: Tp Believe To Be The Lowest Of Men
8th Degree: To Live Only By The Rule And The Exemple Of His Elders
9th Degree: To Withhold His Tongue From Speaking
10th Degree: To Be Not Easily Moved To Laughter
11th Degree: To Speak Gently And Without Laughter
12th Degree: To Let Appear His Humility In His Whole Exterior
A Piano Cycle On The Twelve Steps Of Humility By Saint Benedict - Br Kris Kris Oelbrandt Ocso, Opus 30
The piano cycle Catharsis is a musical meditation on "The Steps of Humility" from St. Benedict's Rule for Monks. Although Benedict wrote it as a guide for monastic life in the sixth century, the text continues to inspire for both laymen and monks to this day.