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The counseling program I offer either draws from various schools of thought or concentrated in a single school depending on the individual needs of each client. In addition to Scripture and relevant wisdom provided by such traditional philosophers as Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, I currently draw from material provided by several saints. These are St. Francis of Assisi, St. Benedict of Nursia, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Dominic of Silos, and St. Justin Martyr.

Franciscan

Theology in the Desert. Learn to let go of all the trappings of this world. All worldly things that promote materialism enslaves the soul.

Benedictine

Monastic Theology. Learn to be a monk according to the Rule of Saint Benedict. Learning to be a monk involves learning 73 rules established by Saint Benedict of Nursia.

1.Kinds or the Life of Monks
2. Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be
3. Calling the Brethren for Counsel
4. Instruments of Good Works
5. Obedience
6. Silence
7. Humility
8. Divine Office during the Night
9. How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office
10. How the Office Is to Be Said During the Summer Season
11. How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
12. How Lauds Are to Be Said
13. How Lauds Are to Be Said during Week on Days
14. How Night Offices are Said on the Feasts of Saints
15. Times the Alleluia Is to Be Said
16. How the Work of God Is to Be Performed during the Day
17. How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours
18. Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
19. Manner of Reciting the Psalter
20. Reverence at Prayer
21. Deans of the Monastery
22. How Monks Are to Sleep
23. Excommunication for Faults
24. Manner of Excommunication
25. Graver Faults
26. Association with Excommunicated without Approval
27. Abbot’s Concern about the Excommunicated
28. Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend
29. Brethren Who Leave the Monastery
30. How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected
31. Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Ought to Be
32. Tools and Goods of the Monastery
33. Whether Monks Ought to Own Anything
34. Receiving in Equal Measure What Is Necessary
35. Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
36. Sick Brethren
37. Aged and Children
38. Weekly Reader
39. Quantity of Food
40. Quantity of Drink
41. Times the Brethren Should Take Their Refection
42. No One Speak after Complin
43. Tardiness in Coming to the Work of God or to Table
44. How those Who Are Excommunicated Make Satisfaction
45. Those Who Commit A Fault in the Oratory
46. Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
47. Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God
48. Daily Work
49. Keeping of Lent
50. Working Far from the Oratory or Are on a Journey
51. Brethren Who Do Not Go Very Far Away
52. Oratory of the Monastery
53. Reception of Guests
54. Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else
55. Clothing and Footgear of the Brethren
56. Abbot’s Table
57. Artists of the Monastery
58. Manner of Admitting Brethren
59. Children of the Noble and Poor Who Are Offered
60. Priests Who Wish to Live in the Monastery
61. How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received
62. Priests of the Monastery
63. Order in the Monastery
64. Election of the Abbot
65. Prior of the Monastery
66. Porter of the Monastery
67. Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
68. If a Brother Is Commanded to Do Impossible Things
69. In the Monastery No One Presume to Defend Another
70. No One Presume to Strike Another
71. Brethren Be Obedient to One Another
72. Virtuous Zeal Which the Monks Ought to Have
73. Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is in this Rule

Ignatian

Spiritual Exercises. Spend 30 days strengthening your spiritual core as established by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. This course is designed to strengthen each Christian’s theology, lived faith.

Aquinian

Theological Summary. This mountainous volume of work has been produced by a Doctor of the Church. It spans a wide variety of material from which to assign work.