# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "03-24"
label:
  la: "Régula Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti. Caput 44: De his qui excommunicántur quómodo satisfáciant"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 44: Concerning Such As Are Excommunicated, How They May Make Satisfaction"
text:
  la: |
    Qui pro grávibus culpis ab oratório et a mensa excommunicántur, hora qua Opus Dei in oratório percelebrátur, ante fores oratórii prostrátus jáceat nihil dicens, nisi tantum pósito in terra cápite, status pronus ómnium de oratório exeúntium pédibus. Et hoc támdiu fáciat, usque dum abbas judicáverit satisfáctum esse. Qui dum jussus ab abbáte vénerit, volvat se ipsíus abbátis, deínde ómnium vestígiis ut orent pro ipso. Et tunc, se jússerit abbas, recipiátur in choro vel in órdine quo abbas decréverit, ita sane, ut psalmum aut lectiónem vel áliud quid non præsúmat in oratório inpónere, nisi íterum abbas júbeat. Et ómnibus Horis, dum perconplétur opus Dei, proíciat se in terra in loco qua stat. Et sic satisfáciat, usque dum ei júbeat íterum abbas, ut quiéscat jam ab hac satisfactióne. Qui vero pro lévibus culpis excommunicántur tantum a mensa, in oratório satisfáciant usque ad jussiónem abbátis. Hoc perfíciant usque dum benedícat et dicat: «Súfficit».
  en: |
    Let him who for grave faults is excommunicated from the oratory and table lie prostrate outside the door of the oratory, while the Work of God is proceeding within the oratory, saying nothing but only lying prone with head touching the ground and towards the feet of those leaving the oratory. And this let him continue to do until such time as the abbot shall adjudge satisfaction has been made: and when at length he comes in, at the abbot’s command, let him prostrate at the feet of the abbot and then at the feet of all the brethren that they may pray for him. And then, if the abbot have so ordered, let him be received in choir; but as to his place in choir let it be as the abbot may order, on the understanding however that he presume not to recite in the oratory psalm or lection or anything else, unless the abbot give further order: and at all the hours as soon as the Work of God is finished let him cast himself to the ground in the place where he stands and so let him make satisfaction, until the abbot give him further order to cease from this making satisfaction.

    But as to those who for lighter faults are excommunicated from table only, let them make satisfaction in the oratory according as the abbot shall command and let them continue until he give them benediction and say, “It is enough.”
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified