Foreword<\/a><\/p>\n Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n The Prologue<\/a><\/p>\n 1. The Kinds of Monks<\/a><\/p>\n 2. The Qualities Required in the Abbot<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Calling the Brothers for Counsel<\/a><\/p>\n 4. The Tools of Good Works<\/a><\/p>\n 5. Obedience<\/a><\/p>\n 6. Quiet<\/a><\/p>\n 7. Humility<\/a><\/p>\n 8. The Divine Office at Night<\/a><\/p>\n 9. The Number of Psalms to Be Recited at the Night Office<\/a><\/p>\n 10. How the Night Praise Should Be Done in Summertime<\/a><\/p>\n 11. How Vigils Should Be Done on the Lord\u2019s Day<\/a><\/p>\n 12. How the Celebration of Matins Should Be Done<\/a><\/p>\n 13. How Matins on Ordinary Days Should Be Done<\/a><\/p>\n 14. The Arrangement for Vigils on the Feasts of Saints<\/a><\/p>\n 15. The Times for Reciting Alleluia<\/a><\/p>\n 16. The Arrangement for the Divine Office during the Day<\/a><\/p>\n 17. The Number of Psalms to Be Sung at These Hours<\/a><\/p>\n 18. The Order for Reciting the Psalms<\/a><\/p>\n 19. The Instruction for Singing Psalms<\/a><\/p>\n 20. Reverence at Prayer<\/a><\/p>\n 21. The Deans of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 22. The Sleeping Arrangement for the Monks<\/a><\/p>\n 23. Excommunication for Faults<\/a><\/p>\n 24. The Requirements for Each Type of Excommunication<\/a><\/p>\n 25. More Serious Faults<\/a><\/p>\n 26. Those Associating with the Excommunicated Without a Command<\/a><\/p>\n 27. The Abbot\u2019s Care for the Excommunicated<\/a><\/p>\n 28. Those, Though Often Corrected, Who Are Unwilling to Change<\/a><\/p>\n 29. Receiving Back Brothers Who Have Left the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 30. The Correction of Young Boys<\/a><\/p>\n 31. The Manager of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 32. The Tools and the Property of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 33. Whether Monks Should Have Anything of Their Own<\/a><\/p>\n 34. Whether All Without Distinction Should Receive What Is Necessary<\/a><\/p>\n 35. The Weekly Kitchen Servers<\/a><\/p>\n 36. The Sick Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n 37. The Old and the Very Young<\/a><\/p>\n 38. The Reader of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n 39. The Measure of Food<\/a><\/p>\n 40. The Measure of Drink<\/a><\/p>\n 41. The Time When the Brothers Are to Take Their Meals<\/a><\/p>\n 42. No One Should Speak After Compline<\/a><\/p>\n 43. Those Who Come Late to the Work of God or to Table<\/a><\/p>\n 44. How Those Excommunicated Are to Make Satisfaction<\/a><\/p>\n 45. Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory<\/a><\/p>\n 46. Those Who Commit Any Other Faults<\/a><\/p>\n 47. Announcing the Hour for the Work of God<\/a><\/p>\n 48. The Daily Manual Labor<\/a><\/p>\n 49. The Observance of Lent<\/a><\/p>\n 50. Brothers Who Work Far From the Church or Who Are on a Journey<\/a><\/p>\n 51. Brothers Who Do Not Travel Far<\/a><\/p>\n 52. The Oratory of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 53. The Reception of Guests<\/a><\/p>\n 54. Whether a Monk Ought to Receive Letters or Anything Else<\/a><\/p>\n 55. The Clothing and Footwear of the Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n 56. The Abbot\u2019s Table<\/a><\/p>\n 57. The Craftsmen of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 58. The Instruction for Receiving Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n 59. The Offering of the Sons of Nobles or of the Poor<\/a><\/p>\n 60. <\/em><\/strong>Priests Who Perhaps May Want to Live in the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 61. The Reception of Traveling Monks<\/a><\/p>\n 62. The Priests of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 63. Seniority in the Community<\/a><\/p>\n 64. The Appointment of the Abbot<\/a><\/p>\n 65. The Prior of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 66. The Porter of the Monastery<\/a><\/p>\n 67. Brothers Sent on a Journey<\/a><\/p>\n 68. If Things Impossible Are Assigned to a Brother<\/a><\/p>\n 69. No One is to Presume to Defend Another<\/a><\/p>\n 70. No One is to Presume to Strike Another Arbitrarily<\/a><\/p>\n 71. That the Brothers Be Obedient to One Another<\/a><\/p>\n 72. The Good Zeal That Monks Must Have<\/a><\/p>\n 73. The Observance of All Justice Is Not Set Down in This Rule<\/a><\/p>\n Daily Schedule for the Reading of the Rule<\/a><\/p>\n