Prologue
Chapter I Of the Kinds or the Life of Monks
Chapter II What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be
Chapter III Of Calling the Brethren for Counsel
Chapter IV The Instruments of Good Works
Chapter V Of Obedience
Chapter VI Of Silence
Chapter VII Of Humility
Chapter VIII Of the Divine Office during the Night
Chapter IX How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office
Chapter X How the Office Is to Be Said during the Summer Season
Chapter XI How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
Chapter XII How Lauds Are to Be Said
Chapter XIII How Lauds Are to Be Said on Week Days
Chapter XIV How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints
Chapter XV At What Times the Alleluia Is to Be Said
Chapter XVI How the Work of God Is to Be Performed during the Day
Chapter XVII How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours
Chapter XVIII In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
Chapter XIX Of the Manner of Reciting the Psalter
Chapter XX Of Reverence at Prayer
Chapter XXI Of the Deans of the Monastery
Chapter XXII How the Monks Are to Sleep
Chapter XXIII Of Excommunication for Faults
Chapter XXIV What the Manner of Excommunication Should Be
Chapter XXV Of Graver Faults
Chapter XXVI Of Those Who without the Command of the Abbot Associate with the Excommunicated
Chapter XXVII How Concerned the Abbot Should Be about the Excommunicated
Chapter XXVIII Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend
Chapter XXIX Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again
Chapter XXX How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected
Chapter XXXI The Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Ought to Be
Chapter XXXII Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery
Chapter XXXIII Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
Chapter XXXIV Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary
Chapter XXXV Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
Chapter XXXVI Of the Sick Brethren
Chapter XXXVII Of the Aged and Children
Chapter XXXVIII Of the Weekly Reader
Chapter XXXIX Of the Quantity of Food
Chapter XL Of the Quantity of Drink
Chapter XLI At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Refection
Chapter XLII That No One Speak after Complin
Chapter XLIII Of Those Who Are Tardy in Coming to the Work of God or to Table
Chapter XLIV Of Those Who Are Excommunicatedâ€”How They Make Satisfaction
Chapter XLV Of Those Who Commit a Fault in the Oratory
Chapter XLVI Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
Chapter XLVII Of Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God
Chapter XLVIII Of the Daily Work
Chapter XLIX On the Keeping of Lent
Chapter L Of Brethren Who Work a Long Distance from the Oratory or Are on a Journey
Chapter LI Of the Brethren Who Do Not Go Very Far Away
Chapter LII Of the Oratory of the Monastery
Chapter LIII Of the Reception of Guests
Chapter LIV Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else
Chapter LV Of the Clothing and the Footgear of the Brethren
Chapter LVI Of the Abbot's Table
Chapter LVII Of the Artists of the Monastery
Chapter LVIII Of the Manner of Admitting Brethren
Chapter LIX Of the Children of the Noble and of the Poor Who Are Offered
Chapter LX Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery
Chapter LXI How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received
Chapter LXII Of the Priests of the Monastery
Chapter LXIII Of the Order in the Monastery
Chapter LXIV Of the Election of the Abbot
Chapter LXV Of the Prior of the Monastery
Chapter LXVI Of the Porter of the Monastery
Chapter LXVII Of the Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
Chapter LXVIII If a Brother Is Commanded to Do Impossible Things
Chapter LXIX That in the Monastery No One Presume to Defend Another
Chapter LXX That No One Presume to Strike Another
Chapter LXXI That the Brethren Be Obedient to One Another
Chapter LXXII Of the Virtuous Zeal Which the Monks Ought to Have
Chapter LXXIII Of This, that Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down in this Rule
Index of Scripture References

The 1949 EditionTranslated by Rev. Boniface Verheyen, OSB of St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison, Kansas

Table Of Contents

The 1949 Edition
Translated by Rev. Boniface Verheyen, OSB
of St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison, Kansas