# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Regula, English translation).
canonicalDate: "04-06"
label:
  la: "Régula Sancti Patri Nostri Benedícti. Caput 54: Si débeat mónachus lítteras vel áliquid suscípere"
  en: "The Rule of our Holy Father Benedict. Chapter 54: If a Monk Ought to Receive Letters Or Tokens"
text:
  la: |
    Nullátenus líceat mónacho neque a paréntibus suis neque a quoquam hóminum nec sibi ínvicem lítteras, eulógias vel quǽlibet munúscula accípere aut dare sine præcépto abbátis. Quod si étiam a paréntibus suis ei quicquam diréctum fúerit, non præsúmat suscípere illud, nisi prius indicátum fúerit abbáti. Quod si jússerit súscipi, in abbátis sit potestáte cui illud júbeat dari, et non contristétur frater, cui forte diréctum fúerat, ut non detur occásio diábulo. Qui autem áliter præsúmpserit, disciplínæ regulári subjáceat.
  en: |
    On no account let it be lawful for monks to receive, whether from parents or from other persons or from each other, letters, tokens, or any present whatsoever, nor yet to give them without the abbot’s permission; and if anything shall have been sent to a monk even from his parents let him not presume to receive it unless it shall first have been made known to the abbot; and even if he shall have ordered it to be received let it still be within his power as abbot to decide as to whom he will order it to be given; and let not the brother to whom by chance it had been sent be grieved, in order that occasion be not given to the devil. And if anyone shall have presumed to act otherwise, let him be subjected to the discipline of the rule.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified