Advanced Placement (AP)
I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST IF IT IS A GOOD ANSWER IN SAQ FORMATBut a third very bad kind of monks are the sarabaites, approved by no rule, experience being their teacher, as with the gold which is tried in the furnace. But, softened after the manner of lead, keeping faith with the world by their works, they are known through their tonsure to lie to God. These being shut up by twos or threes, or, indeed, alone, without a shepherd, not in the Lord's but in their own sheep-folds-their law is the satisfaction of their desires. For whatever they think good or choice, this they call holy; and what they do not wish, this they consider unlawful.- The Rule of Saint Benedict ca. 530A. Identify and explain St. Benedicts central idea in this excerpt. B. Identify and explain how The Rule of St. Benedict sought to counteract the idea he is identifying in the excerpt. C. Identify and explain ONE significant contribution monastic communities made to the lives of people living during the Middle Ages in Europe.