The Rule
- 1PROLOGUE
- 2CHAPTER 1 On the Kinds of Monks
- 3CHAPTER 2 What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be
- 4CHAPTER 3 On Calling the Brethren for Counsel
- 5CHAPTER 4 What Are the Instruments of Good Works
- 6CHAPTER 5 On Obedience
- 7CHAPTER 6 On the Spirit of Silence
- 8CHAPTER 7 On Humility
- 9CHAPTER 8 On the Divine Office During the Night
- 10CHAPTER 9 How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office
- 11CHAPTER 10 How the Night Office Is to Be Said in Summer Time
- 12CHAPTER 11 How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
- 13CHAPTER 12 How the Morning Office Is to Be Said
- 14CHAPTER 13 How the Morning Office Is to Be Said on Weekdays
- 15CHAPTER 14 How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints
- 16CHAPTER 15 At What Times "Alleluia" Is to Be Said
- 17CHAPTER 16 How the Work of God Is to Be Performed During the Day
- 18CHAPTER 17 How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at These Hours
- 19CHAPTER 18 In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
- 20CHAPTER 19 On the Manner of Saying the Divine Office
- 21CHAPTER 20 On Reverence in Prayer
- 22CHAPTER 21 On the Deans of the Monastery
- 23CHAPTER 22 How the Monks Are to Sleep
- 24CHAPTER 23 On Excommunication for Faults
- 25CHAPTER 24 What the Measure of Excommunication Should Be
- 26CHAPTER 25 On Weightier Faults
- 27CHAPTER 26 On Those Who Without an Order Associate With the Excommunicated
- 28CHAPTER 27 How Solicitous the Abbot Should Be for the Excommunicated
- 29CHAPTER 28 On Those Who Will Not Amend After Repeated Corrections
- 30CHAPTER 29 Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Should Be Received Again
- 31CHAPTER 30 How Boys Are to Be Corrected
- 32CHAPTER 31 What Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Should Be
- 33CHAPTER 32 On the Tools and Property of the Monastery
- 34CHAPTER 33 Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
- 35CHAPTER 34 Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary
- 36CHAPTER 35 On the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
- 37CHAPTER 36 On the Sick Brethren
- 38CHAPTER 37 On Old Men and Children
- 39CHAPTER 38 On the Weekly Reader
- 40CHAPTER 39 On the Measure of Food
- 41CHAPTER 40 On the Measure of Drink
- 42CHAPTER 41 At What Hours the Meals Should Be Taken
- 43CHAPTER 42 That No One Speak After Compline
- 44CHAPTER 43 On Those Who Come Late to the Work of God or to Table
- 45CHAPTER 44 How the Excommunicated Are to Make Satisfaction
- 46CHAPTER 45 On Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory
- 47CHAPTER 46 On Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
- 48CHAPTER 47 On Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God
- 49CHAPTER 48 On the Daily Manual Labor
- 50CHAPTER 49 On the Observance of Lent
- 51CHAPTER 50 On Brethren Who Are Working Far From the Oratory or Are on a Journey
- 52CHAPTER 51 On Brethren Who Go Not Very Far Away
- 53CHAPTER 52 On the Oratory of the Monastery
- 54CHAPTER 53 On the Reception of Guests
- 55CHAPTER 54 Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else
- 56CHAPTER 55 On the Clothes and Shoes of the Brethren
- 57CHAPTER 56 On the Abbot's Table
- 58CHAPTER 57 On the Craftsmen of the Monastery
- 59CHAPTER 58 On the Manner of Receiving Brethren
- 60CHAPTER 59 On the Sons of Nobles and of the Poor Who Are Offered
- 61CHAPTER 60 On Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery
- 62CHAPTER 61 How Pilgrim Monks Are To Be Received
- 63CHAPTER 62 On the Priests of the Monastery
- 64CHAPTER 63 On the Order of the Community
- 65CHAPTER 64 On Constituting an Abbot
- 66CHAPTER 65 On the Prior of the Monastery
- 67CHAPTER 66 On the Porters of the Monastery
- 68CHAPTER 67 On Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
- 69CHAPTER 68 If a Brother Is Commanded to Do Impossible Things
- 70CHAPTER 69 That the Monks Presume Not to Defend One Another
- 71CHAPTER 70 That No One Venture to Punish at Random
- 72CHAPTER 71 That the Brethren Be Obedient to One Another
- 73CHAPTER 72 On the Good Zeal Which Monks Ought to Have
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