Penance.—To be blindfolded at each office on the following day.
Rule 7.—Never to go beyond enclosure, or the bounds permitted by holy obedience.
Penance.—To be confined to our sleeping-cell for a week.
Rule 8.—Never to speak about our Superiors to others.
Penance.—To confess it at once, and mention what we said.
Rule 9.—Never to allow criticising thoughts upon the action of a Superior to dwell on the mind.
Penance.—Not to be allowed to genuflect to the Blessed Sacrament for two days.
N.B.—To a nun this is an awful penance, as she has been taught that the “Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity” of Jesus Christ are there present in the reserved Sacrament in the tabernacle.
Rule 10.—If we have a tendency to criticise a Superior’s wisdom or the correctness of any action, to believe that thereby our Lord is injured and the vocation weakened by such thoughts, since we are under our Superiors in and for the Lord, and that the Lord reveals His will only through our spiritual Father or Mother.
Rule 11.—To conceal nothing, even our most inmost thoughts, from the abbot, or abbess.