Resources
Listed below are resources for understanding or practicing structures.
Institutions & Publications
Institute on Religious Life (contains information about religious communities; their way of life very consciously uses structures to grow in virtue and holiness)
Adoremus Bulletin (a publication about the liturgy; the liturgy of the Church offers us structures of unique value for growing in holiness and for glorifying God)
Resources for Using Structures
Monk Manual (while I cannot vouch for how helpful this methodology is, it is interesting that someone from the Protestant tradition finds the witness of monasticism, with its structures, a help for living the Christian life today)
Cooking with the Saints (this book offers recipes that can be used as part of celebrating the memorials and feast days of saints; using a meal to celebrate a saint on his or her memorial can be an effective kind of structure, namely, the kind that points to important things to remember)
Drinking with the Saints (in the same way as the book above, this can help us observe structures that point to important things worth remembering)
Sources for Understanding Structures
Rule of St. Benedict (written for monks in the 6th century, the Rule contains practical wisdom about a way of life ordered to God, especially through various observances, that is to say, structures)
Rule of St. Augustine (written earlier than the Rule of St. Benedict, this rule by St. Augustine offers in concise form an explanation for living a monastic life in community)
St. John Cassian's Conferences (my article in the American Benedictine Review draws especially on the third conference's teaching about different renunciations to explain the right use of structures)
Monastic Practices by Charles Cummings, OCSO (reflections on the place of practices and observances in monastic life)
​