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