St. Benedict
     The Holy Rule

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
Chapter 26	- Of Those Who 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
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