The Rule of Saint Benedict

Table of Contents

  1. Author's Forward

  2. The Prologue

  3. I - Concerning the Four Types of Monks

  4. II - What Sort of Person Ought the Worthy Abbot be

  5. III - Concerning Calling the Friars to Council

  6. IV - The Tools of Good Works

  7. V - Concerning Obedience

  8. VI - Concerning Silence

  9. VII - Concerning Humility

  10. VIII– Concerning the Hours of the Office during the night

  11. IX - Number of psalms to be chanted during the night

  12. X - Manner of nightly Lauds during summer.

  13. XI – The Manner of Conducting the Watches on the Lord's Days

  14. XII - How the Solemnity of Matins is observed

  15. XIII - The Manner of Saying Matins in Private

  16. XIV - The Manner in which the Watches are Conducted on Saints' Feast Days

  17. XV - At Which times the Alleluia is said

  18. XVI - The Manner of conducting the Liturgy of the Office

  19. XVII - How many psalms are to be sung

  20. XVIII – In What Order the Psalms are to be Sung

  21. XIX - Concerning the Instruction of Chanting

  22. XX - Concerning Reverence at Prayer

  23. XXI - Concerning the Deans of the Monastery

  24. XXII - Concerning the Sleeping Arrangements of the Monks

  25. XXIII - Concerning the Excommunication of Faults

  26. XXIV - What sort of Excommunication

  27. XXV - Concerning the More Serious Faults

  28. XXVI - Concerning These Who communicate Without Permission

  29. XXVII - Concerning Level of Care the Abbot ought to have for the Excommunicants.

  30. XXVIII – Concerning these who are more often rebuked and do not wish to mend their ways.

  31. XXIX – The Departed Brothers' Return

  32. XXX -- Concerning Boys of a lesser age, The Manner of Correction
  33. XXXI – Concerning the Qualifications of Stewards of the Monastery

  34. XXXII – Concerning the Implements or Things of the Monastery

  35. XXXIII – Ought the Monks have anything of their own

  36. XXXIV – If All ought to receive Necessities Equally

  37. XXXV – Concerning the Weekly Cooking Duties

  38. XXXVI – Concerning the Ill Brothers

  39. XXXVII – Concerning the Elderly or Very Young

  40. XXXVIII – Concerning the Weekly Reader Duties

  41. XXXIX – Concerning the Measures of Food

  42. XL – Concerning the Measure of Drink

  43. XLI – What are the Best Times to Eat.

  44. XLII – Silence after Compline

  45. XLIII – Concerning those who are late for Work or Meals

  46. XLIV – Concerning the Excommunicated, and How Satisfaction is Made

  47. XLV – Concerning these who are distracted in the Chapel

  48. XLVI – Concerning Those Who are Lacking in any Matter Whatsoever

  49. XLVII – Concerning the establishment of the most important hour of the Divine Office

  50. XLVIII – Concerning Daily Manual Labor

  51. XLIX – Concerning the Lenten Observance

  52. L – Concerning the Brothers, who labor far from the Chapel or are on theRoad

  53. LI – Concerning the Brothers Who are Not Far from the Chapel

  54. LII – Concerning the Monastery Chapel

  55. LIII – Concerning Hospitality Undertakings

  56. LIV – If The Monk must accept Letters or Anything Else

  57. LV -- Concerning Clothing or Shoes of the Brothers

  58. LVI – Concerning the Abbot's Table

  59. LVII – Concerning the Artisans of the Monastery

  60. LVIII – Concerning the Teaching of the Brothers who Must be Supported

  61. LIX – Concerning the Sons of Nobility or Poverty Who are Offered for God's Service

  62. LX -- Concerning Priests Who Might Wish to live in the Monastery

  63. LXI – How are Foreign Monk to be Received

  64. LXII – Concerning the Priests of the Monastery

  65. LXIII Concerning Rank in the Community

  66. LXIV – Concerning of the Ordination of the Abbot

  67. LXV Concerning the Deans of the Monastery
  68. LXVI – Concerning the Porters of the Monastery

  69. LXVII – Concerning the Proper Manner of Traveling Monks

  70. LXVIII – If a Monk has been assigned an Impossible Task

  71. LXIX – In the Monastery One will not Defend the Other

  72. LXX -- No one shall be allowed to fail in degrees

  73. LXXI – Mutual Obedience

  74. LXXII– Concerning Good Monastic Zeal

  75. LXXIII – Concerning What is not established in this Rule

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