# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "04-25"
label:
  la: "Régula Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti. Caput 67: De frátribus in viam diréctis"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 67: Concerning Brethren Sent On a Journey"
text:
  la: |
    Dirigéndi fratres in via ómnium fratrum vel abbátis se oratióni conméndent, et semper ad oratiónem últimam óperis Dei commemorátio ómnium abséntum fiat. Reverténtes autem de via fratres ipso die quo rédeunt per omnes canónicas horas, dum explétur opus Dei, prostráti solo oratórii ab ómnibus petant oratiónem propter excéssos, ne qui forte subripúerint in via visus aut audítus malæ rei aut otiósi sermónis. Nec præsúmat quisquam reférre álio quæcúmque foris monastérium víderit aut audíerit, quia plúrima destrúctio est. Quod si quis præsúmpserit, vindíctæ regulári subjáceat. Simíliter et qui præsúmpserit claustra monastérii égredi vel quocúmque ire vel quíppiam quamvis parvum sine jussióne abbátis fácere.
  en: |
    Let brethren about to be sent on a journey commend themselves to the prayers of the abbot and all the brethren; and let there always be a commemoration made of all absent brethren at the end of the prayer of the Work of God. And let brethren returning from a journey on the very day on which they return, lying prostrate on the floor of the oratory throughout all the canonical hours while the Work of God is being fulfilled, seek prayers from all on account of transgressions, lest perchance there shall have happened to any one of them on the way the seeing or hearing of any evil thing or idle word. And by no means let any one of them presume to relate to another anything whatsoever that he may have seen or heard outside the monastery, because it is very distracting. But if anyone shall have thus presumed, let him be subjected to the punishment prescribed by rule. Similarly let it be done to him also who shall have presumed to leave the monastery enclosure, or to go anywhere at all, or to do anything whatsoever, however small, without the abbot’s orders.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified