03-07# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 30: Concerning the Younger Boys, How They Are to Be Corrected
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Every age and every stage of intellect ought to have its own appropriate degrees of discipline; and so as often as boys and youths and any who are hardly able to understand how great a punishment is that of excommunication commit faults, let all such be punished by means of rigorous fasts, or corrected with sharp stripes, that they may be cured.