> [[bn-rule-of-st-benedict|← Cover]] | [[bn-rsb-00|Next →]] # Table of Contents - [[bn-rsb-00|Prologue]] - [[bn-rsb-01|Chapter I. Of the Kinds or the Life of Monks]] - [[bn-rsb-02|Chapter II. What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be]] - [[bn-rsb-03|Chapter III. Of Calling the Brethren for Counsel]] - [[bn-rsb-04|Chapter IV. The Instruments of Good Works]] - [[bn-rsb-05|Chapter V. Of Obedience]] - [[bn-rsb-06|Chapter VI. Of Silence]] - [[bn-rsb-07|Chapter VII. Of Humility]] - [[bn-rsb-08|Chapter VIII. Of the Divine Office During the Night]] - [[bn-rsb-09|Chapter IX. How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office]] - [[bn-rsb-10|Chapter X. How the Office Is to Be Said During the Summer Season]] - [[bn-rsb-11|Chapter XI. How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays]] - [[bn-rsb-12|Chapter XII. How Lauds Are to Be Said]] - [[bn-rsb-13|Chapter XIII. How Lauds Are to Be Said on Week Days]] - [[bn-rsb-14|Chapter XIV. How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints]] - [[bn-rsb-15|Chapter XV. At What Times the Alleluia Is to Be Said]] - [[bn-rsb-16|Chapter XVI. How the Work of God Is to Be Performed During the Day]] - [[bn-rsb-17|Chapter XVII. How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours]] - [[bn-rsb-18|Chapter XVIII. In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said]] - [[bn-rsb-19|Chapter XIX. Of the Manner of Reciting the Psalter]] - [[bn-rsb-20|Chapter XX. Of Reverence at Prayer]] - [[bn-rsb-21|Chapter XXI. Of the Deans of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-22|Chapter XXII. How the Monks Are to Sleep]] - [[bn-rsb-23|Chapter XXIII. Of Excommunication for Faults]] - [[bn-rsb-24|Chapter XXIV. What the Manner of Excommunication Should Be]] - [[bn-rsb-25|Chapter XXV. Of Graver Faults]] - [[bn-rsb-26|Chapter XXVI. Of Those Who Without the Command of the Abbot Associate with the Excommunicated]] - [[bn-rsb-27|Chapter XXVII. How Concerned the Abbot Should Be About the Excommunicated]] - [[bn-rsb-28|Chapter XXVIII. Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend]] - [[bn-rsb-29|Chapter XXIX. Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again]] - [[bn-rsb-30|Chapter XXX. How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected]] - [[bn-rsb-31|Chapter XXXI. The Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Ought to Be]] - [[bn-rsb-32|Chapter XXXII. Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-33|Chapter XXXIII. Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own]] - [[bn-rsb-34|Chapter XXXIV. Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary]] - [[bn-rsb-35|Chapter XXXV. Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen]] - [[bn-rsb-36|Chapter XXXVI. Of the Sick Brethren]] - [[bn-rsb-37|Chapter XXXVII. Of the Aged and Children]] - [[bn-rsb-38|Chapter XXXVIII. Of the Weekly Reader]] - [[bn-rsb-39|Chapter XXXIX. Of the Quantity of Food]] - [[bn-rsb-40|Chapter XL. Of the Quantity of Drink]] - [[bn-rsb-41|Chapter XLI. At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Refection]] - [[bn-rsb-42|Chapter XLII. That No One Speak After Complin]] - [[bn-rsb-43|Chapter XLIII. Of Those Who Are Tardy in Coming to the Work of God or to Table]] - [[bn-rsb-44|Chapter XLIV. Of Those Who Are Excommunicated--how They Make Satisfaction]] - [[bn-rsb-45|Chapter XLV. Of Those Who Commit a Fault in the Oratory]] - [[bn-rsb-46|Chapter XLVI. Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters]] - [[bn-rsb-47|Chapter XLVII. Of Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God]] - [[bn-rsb-48|Chapter XLVIII. Of the Daily Work]] - [[bn-rsb-49|Chapter XLIX. On the Keeping of Lent]] - [[bn-rsb-50|Chapter L. Of Brethren Who Work a Long Distance from the Oratory or Are on a Journey]] - [[bn-rsb-51|Chapter LI. Of the Brethren Who Do Not Go Very Far Away]] - [[bn-rsb-52|Chapter LII. Of the Oratory of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-53|Chapter LIII. Of the Reception of Guests]] - [[bn-rsb-54|Chapter LIV. Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else]] - [[bn-rsb-55|Chapter LV. Of the Clothing and the Footgear of the Brethren]] - [[bn-rsb-56|Chapter LVI. Of the Abbot's Table]] - [[bn-rsb-57|Chapter LVII. Of the Artists of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-58|Chapter LVIII. Of the Manner of Admitting Brethren]] - [[bn-rsb-59|Chapter LIX. Of the Children of the Noble and of the Poor Who Are Offered]] - [[bn-rsb-60|Chapter LX. Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-61|Chapter LXI. How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received]] - [[bn-rsb-62|Chapter LXII. Of the Priests of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-63|Chapter LXIII. Of the Order in the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-64|Chapter LXIV. Of the Election of the Abbot]] - [[bn-rsb-65|Chapter LXV. Of the Prior of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-66|Chapter LXVI. Of the Porter of the Monastery]] - [[bn-rsb-67|Chapter LXVII. Of the Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey]] - [[bn-rsb-68|Chapter LXVIII. If a Brother Is Commanded to Do Impossible Things]] - [[bn-rsb-69|Chapter LXIX. That in the Monastery No One Presume to Defend Another]] - [[bn-rsb-70|Chapter LXX. That No One Presume to Strike Another]] - [[bn-rsb-71|Chapter LXXI. That the Brethren Be Obedient to One Another]] - [[bn-rsb-72|Chapter LXXII. Of the Virtuous Zeal Which the Monks Ought to Have]] - [[bn-rsb-73|Chapter LXXIII. Of This, That Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down in This Rule]] - [[bn-rsb-74|Index of Scripture References]] --- ![[maps/bibliography#^biblio-rsb]] > [[bn-rule-of-st-benedict|← Cover]] | [[bn-rsb-00|Next →]]