01-01# Prologue to the Rule of our Holy Father Benedict


01-08# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 1: Concerning the Different Kinds of Monks

01-09# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 2: What Kind of Man an Abbot Ought to Be

01-16# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 3: Concerning the Calling of the Brethren to Council

01-18# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 4: What Are the Instruments of Good Works

01-22# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 5: Concerning Obedience

01-24# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 6: Concerning Silence
01-25# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 7: Concerning Humility

02-10# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 8: Concerning the Divine Office At Night
02-11# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 9: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said At the Night Hours
02-12# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 10: How Night Praise Is to Be Accomplished In Summer Time
02-13# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 11: How Night Office Is to Be Said On Lord’s Days
02-14# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 12: How the Office of Lauds Is to Be Sung
02-15# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 13: How Lauds Are to Be Said On Ferias

02-17# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 14: How Night Office Is to Be Said On the Feasts of Saints
02-18# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 15: In Which Seasons Alleluia Is to Be Said
02-19# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 16: How the Work of God Is to Be Carried Out During the Day
02-20# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 17: How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung At These Hours
02-21# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 18: In What Order the Psalms Themselves Are to Be Said

02-25# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 19: Concerning the Discipline of Saying Office
02-26# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 20: Concerning Reverence In Prayer
02-27# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 21: Concerning the Deans of the Monastery
02-28# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 22: How the Monks Are to Sleep
02-29# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 23: Concerning Excommunication For Offences
03-01# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 24: What the Measure of Excommunication Should Be
03-02# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 25: Concerning Graver Faults
03-03# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 26: Concerning Those Who Without the Orders of the Abbot Consort With the Excommunicate
03-04# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 27: How Solicitous the Abbot Should Be For the Excommunicate
03-05# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 28: Concerning Those Who Shall Not Have Amended Though Somewhat Often Corrected
03-06# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 29: If Brethren Who Go Out From the Monastery Ought to Be Received Back Again
03-07# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 30: Concerning the Younger Boys, How They Are to Be Corrected
03-08# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 31: Concerning the Cellarer of the Monastery, What Sort of a Person He Should Be

03-10# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 32: Concerning the Iron Tools and Other Things Belonging to the Monastery
03-11# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 33: Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
03-12# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 34: Whether All Ought to Receive Necessaries Equally
03-13# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 35: Concerning the Weekly Kitcheners

03-15# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 36: Concerning the Sick and Infirm Brethren
03-16# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 37: Concerning the Old and Infants
03-17# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 38: Concerning the Weekly Reader
03-18# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 39: Concerning the Quantity of Foods
03-19# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 40: Concerning the Quantity of Drink
03-20# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 41: At What Hours the Brethren Ought to Have Their Meals
03-21# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 42: That No One Talk After Compline
03-22# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 43: Concerning Those Who Come Late to the Work of God Or to Table

03-24# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 44: Concerning Such As Are Excommunicated, How They May Make Satisfaction
03-25# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 45: Concerning Those Who Make Mistakes In the Oratory
03-26# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 46: Concerning Those Who Do Amiss In Any Other Matters
03-27# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 47: of Notifying the Hour of the Work of God
03-28# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 48: Concerning the Daily Manual Work

03-31# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 49: Concerning the Observance of Lent
04-01# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 50: Concerning Brethren Who Are Working At a Distance From the Oratory, Or Are On the Road
04-02# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 51: Concerning Brethren Who Do Not Go Far Away
04-03# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 52: of the Oratory of the Monastery
04-04# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 53: of How Guests Are to Be Received

04-06# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 54: If a Monk Ought to Receive Letters Or Tokens
04-07# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 55: Concerning the Brethren’s Clothes and Shoes

04-09# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 56: Concerning the Abbot’s Table
04-10# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 57: Concerning Artificers In the Monastery
04-11# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 58: Concerning the Discipline of Those to Be Received As Brethren

04-13# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 59: Concerning Noblemen’s Sons and Poor Men’s Sons Who Are Offered
04-14# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 60: Concerning Priests Who By Chance Shall Wish to Live In the Monastery
04-15# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 61: Concerning Monks Who Are Strangers, How They Should Be Received

04-17# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 62: Concerning the Priests of the Monastery
04-18# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 63: Concerning the Order of the Community

04-20# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 64: Concerning the Election of an Abbot

04-22# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 65: Concerning the Provost of the Monastery

04-24# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 66: Concerning the Porter of the Monastery
04-25# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 67: Concerning Brethren Sent On a Journey
04-26# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 68: If Impossibilities Be Enjoined Upon a Brother
04-27# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 69: That In the Monastery One Presume Not to Constitute Himself the Patron of Another
04-28# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 70: That No One Presume to Strike Another Unlawfully
04-29# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 71: That the Brethren Be Obedient Among Themselves
04-30# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 72: Concerning the Good Zeal Which Monks Ought to Have
05-01# The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 73: Concerning This, Namely That Not Every Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down In This Rule