The Holy Rule of St. Benedict

1 CHAPTER I: Of the Kinds or the Life of Monks — CHAPTER II: What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 2 CHAPTER III: Of Calling the Brethren for Counsel — CHAPTER IV: The Instruments of Good Works 3 CHAPTER V: Of Obedience 4 CHAPTER VI: Of Silence — CHAPTER VII: Of Humility 5 CHAPTER VIII: Of the Divine Office during the Night — CHAPTER IX: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office 6 CHAPTER X: How the Office Is to Be Said during the Summer Season — CHAPTER XI: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays 7 CHAPTER XII: How Lauds Are to Be Said — CHAPTER XIII: How Lauds Are to Be Said on Week Days 8 CHAPTER XIV: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints — CHAPTER XV: At What Times the Alleluia Is to Be Said 9 CHAPTER XVI: How the Work of God Is to Be Performed during the Day — CHAPTER XVII: How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours 10 CHAPTER XVIII: In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said 11 CHAPTER XIX: Of the Manner of Reciting the Psalter — CHAPTER XX: Of Reverence at Prayer 12 CHAPTER XXI: Of the Deans of the Monastery — CHAPTER XXII: How the Monks Are to Sleep 13 CHAPTER XXIII: Of Excommunication for Faults — CHAPTER XXIV: What the Manner of Excommunication Should Be 14 CHAPTER XXV: Of Graver Faults — CHAPTER XXVI: Of Those Who without the Command of the Abbot Associate with the 15 CHAPTER XXVII: How Concerned the Abbot Should Be about the Excommunicated — CHAPTER XXVIII: Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend 16 CHAPTER XXIX: Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again — CHAPTER XXX: How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected 17 CHAPTER XXXI: The Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Ought to Be 18 CHAPTER XXXII: Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery — CHAPTER XXXIII: Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own 19 CHAPTER XXXIV: Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary — CHAPTER XXXV: Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen 20 CHAPTER XXXVI: Of the Sick Brethren — CHAPTER XXXVII: Of the Aged and Children 21 CHAPTER XXXVIII: Of the Weekly Reader — CHAPTER XXXIX: Of the Quantity of Food 22 CHAPTER XL: Of the Quantity of Drink — CHAPTER XLI: At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Refection 23 CHAPTER XLII: That No One Speak after Complin — CHAPTER XLIII: Of Those Who Are Tardy in Coming to the Work of God or to Table 24 CHAPTER XLIV: Of Those Who Are Excommunicated--How They Make Satisfaction — CHAPTER XLV: Of Those Who Commit a Fault in the Oratory 25 CHAPTER XLVI: Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters — CHAPTER XLVII: Of Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God 26 CHAPTER XLVIII: Of the Daily Work 27 CHAPTER XLIX: On the Keeping of Lent — CHAPTER L: Of Brethren Who Work a Long Distance from the Oratory or Are on a 28 CHAPTER LI: Of the Brethren Who Do Not Go Very Far Away — CHAPTER LII: Of the Oratory of the Monastery 29 CHAPTER LIII: Of the Reception of Guests 30 CHAPTER LIV: Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else — CHAPTER LV: Of the Clothing and the Footgear of the Brethren 31 CHAPTER LVI: Of the Abbot's Table — CHAPTER LVII: Of the Artists of the Monastery 32 CHAPTER LVIII: Of the Manner of Admitting Brethren 33 CHAPTER LIX: Of the Children of the Noble and of the Poor Who Are Offered — CHAPTER LX: Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery 34 CHAPTER LXI: How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received — CHAPTER LXII: Of the Priests of the Monastery 35 CHAPTER LXIII: Of the Order in the Monastery 36 CHAPTER LXIV: Of the Election of the Abbot 37 CHAPTER LXV: Of the Prior of the Monastery 38 CHAPTER LXVI: Of the Porter of the Monastery — CHAPTER LXVII: Of the Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey 39 CHAPTER LXVIII: If a Brother Is Commanded to Do Impossible Things — CHAPTER LXIX: That in the Monastery No One Presume to Defend Another 40 CHAPTER LXX: That No One Presume to Strike Another — CHAPTER LXXI: That the Brethren Be Obedient to One Another 41 CHAPTER LXXII: Of the Virtuous Zeal Which the Monks Ought to Have — CHAPTER LXXIII: Of This, that Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down in