# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "04-18"
label:
  la: "Régula Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti. Caput 63: De órdine congregatiónis"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 63: Concerning the Order of the Community"
text:
  la: |
    Ordines suos in monastério ita consérvent ut conversatiónis tempus, ut vitæ méritum discérnit atque abbas constitúerit. Qui abbas non contúrbet gregem sibi commíssum nec, quasi líbera utens potestáte, injúste dispónat áliquid, sed cógitet semper quia de ómnibus judíciis et opéribus suis redditúrus est Deo ratiónem. Ergo secúndum órdines suos quos constitúerit vel quos habúerint ipsi fratres, sic accédant ad pacem, ad communiónem, ad psalmum inponéndum, in choro standum. Et in ómnibus omnío locis ætas non discérnat órdines nec præjúdicet, quia Sámuhel et Dánihel púeri presbýteros judicavérunt. Ergo, excépto hos quos, ut díximus, altióri consílio abbas prætúlerit vel degradáverit certis ex causis, réliqui omnes ut convertúntur ita sint ut verbi grátia qui secúnda hora diéi vénerit in monastério juniórem se nóverit illíus esse qui prima hora venit diéi, cujúslibet ætátis aut dignitátis sit. Púeris per ómnia ab ómnibus disciplína conserváta.
  en: |
    Let all keep their relative places in the monastery according as the time of each one’s conversion or the merit of each one’s life determines, or as the abbot shall have decided. And let not the abbot disquiet the flock committed to him, nor let him make any unjust arrangement as if using an authority wholly unrestricted, but let him always bear in mind that concerning all his judgments and deeds he is going to render account to God. Therefore according to the places he shall have assigned them, or which they shall hold by seniority, so let the brethren proceed for the Pax, for Communion, for intoning a psalm, for taking their place in choir. And nowhere at all let the subject of age determine or even suggest their relative places, for Samuel and David when mere boys judged those advanced in years. Therefore, those excepted whom, as we have said, the abbot shall have promoted for weighty reason or shall have degraded for certain causes, let all the rest as they are one by one converted, so take their places, so that, for example, he who shall have come into the monastery at the second hour of a day shall know himself to be junior to him who came at the first hour of that day, of whatever age or dignity he may be. But the discipline of authority towards children is to be universally observed by all.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
