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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the text
Biblical references and translation
Inclusive language
The Rule of Benedict
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
10 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
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