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The Rule of Saint Benedict

CHAPTER LI Of Brethren who go only a short distance · 46 of 65

The Rule of Saint Benedict

English, translated by Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, translator — Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, translator, 1925

Tue brother who is sent on an errand and expects to return to his monastery the same day shall not presume to eat outside his house, even though he be asked to do so by any one, unless he be so ordered by his abbot. If he do otherwise let him be

excommunicated.

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