St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, has recently become the sole UK distributor of the book Introducing Benedict's Rule: A Program of Formation by Michael Casey OCSO and David Tomlins OCSO, published by EOS Verlag, St Ottilien, Germany, 2006 (Pp. 252, sturdy paperback with illustrative line drawings).

This book is designed principally as a text book to be used in monastic formation, helping those who are making a first systematic acquaintance with the Rule to understand what it is saying, and to interpret it in the context of lived experience today. The course was first written in 1979 for the Benedictine Union of Australia and New Zealand, and it has been widely used ever since.

Suitable also for the general reader and especially Benedictine Oblates.