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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
1 - The kinds of monks
2 - What kind of man the abbot should be
3 - Summoning the brothers for consultation
4 - The tools for good works
5 - Obedience
6 - Restraint of speech
7 - Humility
8 - The divine office at night
9 - The number of psalms to be said at the night office
1O - Arrangements for the night office in summer
11 - The night office on Sundays
12 - The office of Lauds
13 - Arrangements for Lauds on ordinary days
14 - Arrangements for the night office on saints’ days
15 - The times for saying the Alleluia
16 - Arrangements for the divine office during the day
17 - The number of psalms to be said at these hours
18 - The order of the psalms
19 - Regulations regarding the singing of psalms
20 - Reverence in prayer
21 - The deans of the monastery
22 - Sleeping arrangements
23 - Excommunication for offences
24 - Degrees of excommunication
25 - Serious offences
26 - Unauthorized association with the excommunicated
27 - The abbot’s care for the excommunicated
28 - Those who refuse to amend despite frequent rebuke
29 - Readmission of brothers who leave the monastery
30 - Correction of the young
31 - What kind of person the monastery’s cellarer should be
32 - The monastery’s tools and property
33 - The question of private ownership
34 - The question of distribution according to need
35 - The weekly kitchen servers
36 - Sick brothers
37 - The elderly and children
38 - The weekly reader
39 - The proper amount of food
40 - The proper amount of drink
41 - Meal times
42 - Silence after Compline
43 - Latecomers to the work of God or to meals
44 - How the excommunicated should make amends
45 - Mistakes in the oratory
46 - Offences committed elsewhere
47 - Announcing the time for the work of God
48 - Daily manual labour
49 - Observance of Lent
50 - Brothers working or travelling far from the oratory
51 - Brothers on a short journey
52 - The monastery oratory
53 - The reception of guests
54 - Letters or gifts for monks
55 - The brothers’ clothing and footwear
56 - The abbot’s table
57 - The monastery craftsmen
58 - Regulations regarding the admission of brothers
59 - The offering of their sons by nobles or by the poor
60 - The admission of priests to the monastery
61 - The reception of visiting monks
62 - Priests of the monastery
63 - Rank within the community
64 - Election of the abbot
65 - The prior of the monastery
66 - The porter of the monastery
67 - Brothers sent on a journey
68 - The assignment of impossible tasks to a brother
69 - No one is to defend someone else in the monastery
70 - No one is to strike someone else without due cause
71 - Mutual obedience
72 - Beneficial fervour in a monk
73 - This rule is only a start on the path to justice
Appendix Daily Services (Liturgy of the Hours) in Benedict’s Monasteries
Notes
THE STORY OF PENGUIN CLASSICS
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