Both the Rule of St. Francis and the Rule of St. Benedict pertain to how to
             live a life in chastity and how to live a life with God. The major rules
             of both focus on the foundations of a life in being a God's servant,
             particularly the apostolic way of life and that of belonging in a
             monastery. According to the article Rule of Saint Benedict (Alston, 2003),
             St. Benedict's rule is comprised of the following.
             Of the seventy-three chapters comprising the Rule, nine treat of the
             duties of the abbot, thirteen regulate the worship of God, twenty-nine
             are concerned with discipline and the penal code, ten refer to the
             internal administration of the monastery, and the remaining twelve
             consist of miscellaneous regulations.
             Oliger (2003), on the other hand, describes St. Francis' rule in the
             The ideal that St. Francis laid down in his rule is very high; the
             apostolical life was to be put in practice by his brethrenâ€
             To establish that the both rules proposes the ideals of a holy life,
             following are the characteristics of St. Francis and St. Benedict's rules,
             in respective order, that was written as prologues of the rules' contents.
             The rule and life of the Minor Brothers is this, namely, to observe
             the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by living in obedience,
             without property and in chastity."
             The main principles of the religious life, viz.: the renunciation of
             one's own will and the taking up of arms under the banner of Christ.
             Though both rules focuses on the same principles of putting God in
             everything and that everything must be subservient to God, they however
             generally differ in the characteristics that they were implemented. St.
             Francis's rules were highly set in terms of practice. Their implementation
             were more of severity in character especially on matters regarding
             appropriating temporal things t...