The Rule of Life of the Community of Companions on the Way is:
Be Present, Reverence, Abide
​It serves as a guide for us in our daily living, and a means of helpful personal assessment for our walk with the Christ. After any and every relational encounter, we are able to ask of ourselves and Spirit, "Was I present? Did I reverence? Did I abide?" The full text of our Rule of Life can be found below.​
The purpose of a rule of life might be best described by those in the Northumbria Community,
who explain it this way:
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"A Rule of life is absolutely essential to any monastic expression, and is a spiritual rather than a legislative document. It says this is ‘who we are, this is our story’ and reminds us of those things God has put on our heart, and calls us back to the story that God has written as foundational. Monastic stability is to be accountable to a Rule of life as a framework for freedom, not as a set of rules that restrict or deny life, but as a way of living out our vocation alone and together. It is, to use the words of St Benedict, ‘simply a handbook to make the radical demands of the gospel a practical reality in daily life’.
