Table of Contents
2. The Qualities Required in the Abbot
3. Calling the Brothers for Counsel
9. The Number of Psalms to Be Recited at the Night Office
10. How the Night Praise Should Be Done in Summertime
11. How Vigils Should Be Done on the Lord’s Day
12. How the Celebration of Matins Should Be Done
13. How Matins on Ordinary Days Should Be Done
14. The Arrangement for Vigils on the Feasts of Saints
15. The Times for Reciting Alleluia
16. The Arrangement for the Divine Office during the Day
17. The Number of Psalms to Be Sung at These Hours
18. The Order for Reciting the Psalms
19. The Instruction for Singing Psalms
21. The Deans of the Monastery
22. The Sleeping Arrangement for the Monks
23. Excommunication for Faults
24. The Requirements for Each Type of Excommunication
26. Those Associating with the Excommunicated Without a Command
27. The Abbot’s Care for the Excommunicated
28. Those, Though Often Corrected, Who Are Unwilling to Change
29. Receiving Back Brothers Who Have Left the Monastery
30. The Correction of Young Boys
31. The Manager of the Monastery
32. The Tools and the Property of the Monastery
33. Whether Monks Should Have Anything of Their Own
34. Whether All Without Distinction Should Receive What Is Necessary
35. The Weekly Kitchen Servers
37. The Old and the Very Young
41. The Time When the Brothers Are to Take Their Meals
42. No One Should Speak After Compline
43. Those Who Come Late to the Work of God or to Table
44. How Those Excommunicated Are to Make Satisfaction
45. Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory
46. Those Who Commit Any Other Faults
47. Announcing the Hour for the Work of God
50. Brothers Who Work Far From the Church or Who Are on a Journey
51. Brothers Who Do Not Travel Far
52. The Oratory of the Monastery
54. Whether a Monk Ought to Receive Letters or Anything Else
55. The Clothing and Footwear of the Brothers
57. The Craftsmen of the Monastery
58. The Instruction for Receiving Brothers
59. The Offering of the Sons of Nobles or of the Poor
60. Priests Who Perhaps May Want to Live in the Monastery
61. The Reception of Traveling Monks
62. The Priests of the Monastery
63. Seniority in the Community
64. The Appointment of the Abbot
65. The Prior of the Monastery
66. The Porter of the Monastery
67. Brothers Sent on a Journey
68. If Things Impossible Are Assigned to a Brother
69. No One is to Presume to Defend Another
70. No One is to Presume to Strike Another Arbitrarily
71. That the Brothers Be Obedient to One Another
72. The Good Zeal That Monks Must Have
73. The Observance of All Justice Is Not Set Down in This Rule
