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The following are summary descriptions of each chapter of the Rule of St Benedict of Nursia.
Sections of the text in the Monachos Library:
- Page 1: Prologue to chapter 25
- Page 2: Chapter 26 to chapter 50
- Page 3: Chapter 51 to chapter 73 (end)
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Of the Kinds or the Life of Monks
- Chapter 2: What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be
- Chapter 3: Of Calling the Brethren for Counsel
- Chapter 4: The Instruments of Good Works
- Chapter 5: Of Obedience
- Chapter 6: Of Silence
- Chapter 7: Of Humility
- Chapter 8: Of the Divine Office during the Night
- Chapter 9: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night Office
- Chapter 10: How the Office Is to Be Said during the Summer Season
- Chapter 11: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
- Chapter 12: How Lauds Are to Be Said
- Chapter 13: How Lauds Are to Be Said on Week Days
- Chapter 14: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints
- Chapter 15: At What Times the Alleluia Is to Be Said
- Chapter 16: How the Work of God Is to Be Performed during the Day
- Chapter 17: How Many Psalms Are to Be Sung at These Hours
- Chapter 18: In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
- Chapter 19: Of the Manner of Reciting the Psalter
- Chapter 20: Of Reverence at Prayer
- Chapter 21: Of the Deans of the Monastery
- Chapter 22: How the Monks Are to Sleep
- Chapter 23: Of Excommunication for Faults
- Chapter 24: What the Manner of Excommunication Should Be
- Chapter 25: Of Graver Faults
Chapters included on the Monachos edition's Page 2:
- Chapter 26: Of Those Who without the Command of the Abbot Associate with the Excommunicated
- Chapter 27: How Concerned the Abbot Should Be about the Excommunicated
- Chapter 28: Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend
- Chapter 29: Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again
- Chapter 30: How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected
- Chapter 31: The Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Ought to Be
- Chapter 32: Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery
- Chapter 33: Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
- Chapter 34: Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary
- Chapter 35: Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
- Chapter 36: Of the Sick Brethren
- Chapter 37: Of the Aged and Children
- Chapter 38: Of the Weekly Reader
- Chapter 39: Of the Quantity of Food
- Chapter 40: Of the Quantity of Drink
- Chapter 41: At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Refection
- Chapter 42: That No One Speak after Complin
- Chapter 43: Of Those Who Are Tardy in Coming to the Work of God or to Table
- Chapter 44: Of Those Who Are Excommunicated -- How They Make Satisfaction
- Chapter 45: Of Those Who Commit a Fault in the Oratory
- Chapter 46: Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
- Chapter 47: Of Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God
- Chapter 48: Of the Daily Work
- Chapter 49: On the Keeping of Lent
- Chapter 50: Of the Brethren Who Work a Long Distance form the Oratory or Are on a Journey
Chapters included on the Monachos edition's Page 3:
- Chapter 51: Of the Brethren Who Do Not Go Very Far Away
- Chapter 52: Of the Oratory of the Monastery
- Chapter 53: Of the Reception of Guests
- Chapter 54: Whether a Monk Should Receive Letters or Anything Else
- Chapter 55: Of the Clothing and the Footgear of the Brethren
- Chapter 56: Of the Abbot's Table
- Chapter 57: Of the Artists of the Monastery
- Chapter 58: Of the Manner of Admitting Brethren
- Chapter 59: Of the Children of the Noble and of the Poor Who Are Offered
- Chapter 60: Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery
- Chapter 61: How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received
- Chapter 62: Of the Priests of the Monastery
- Chapter 63: Of the Order in the Monastery
- Chapter 64: Of the Election of the Abbot
- Chapter 65: Of the Prior of the Monastery
- Chapter 66: Of the Porter of the Monastery
- Chapter 67: Of the Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
- Chapter 68: If a Brother is Commanded to Do Impossible Things
- Chapter 69: That in the Monastery No One Presume to Defend Another
- Chapter 70: That No One Presume to Strike Another
- Chapter 71: That the Brethren be Obedient to One Another
- Chapter 72: Of the Virtuous Zeal Which the Monks Ought to Have
- Chapter 73: Of This, that Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness is Laid Down in this Rule