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