Quote from Letter 9.20 to Urbicus, abbot. October 598
I see how the monastic rule has been broken, when no monks in that monastery are ready to obey you, and you have been unable to arrange anything with consistency.
For that reason, I lament very greatly that I find out our monastery very different from what I thought. And that could not have arisen in any other way, except that your Beloved has been irregular in your rule, and you are incapable of arranging anything with dignity. At one time you are keen to flatter the sinner a little, at another, to be excessively angry with them, without order or moderation. For if you could have held yourself to some rational plan, your maturity itself could have been treated with reverence, and the order of discipline could have been preserved in the monastery.
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