# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "04-09"
label:
  la: "Régula Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti. Caput 56: De mensa abbátis"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 56: Concerning the Abbot’s Table"
text:
  la: |
    Mensa abbátis cum hospítibus et peregrínis sit semper. Quótiens tamen minus sunt hóspites, quos vult de frátribus vocáre in ipsíus sit potestáte. Seniórem tamen unum aut duo semper cum frátribus dimitténdum propter disciplínam.
  en: |
    Let the abbot’s table always be with the guests and strangers. Let it however be within his rights, as often as there are but few guests, to invite whom he will from among the brethren: yet for discipline’s sake let him always arrange for one or two of the seniors to be sent away from his table to be with the brethren.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified