A review by theologiaviatorum
The Rules of Pachomius by Saint Pachomius

informative fast-paced

3.5

Saint Antony is the Father of Monasticism, but Saint Pachomius—an imitator of Antony and student of Antony's strict pupil, Palaemon—is the Father of Institutional or cenobitic monasticism. Cenobitic comes from the Greek koinobios meaning "Common Life" or "Common Dwelling." Whereas Saint Antony's style of Monasticism was solitary that of St. Pachomius was lived in community. This is the earliest monastic rule which he wrote in response to divine command. "And as he was sitting in his cave, the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him: 'With regard to thyself thou hast become perfect and a superfluous abidance dost thou now live in the cave: and now go forth, and collect together the less perfect young men, and dwell and be with them: and as I give thee an ordinance, this teach them.'"