Chapter 45: On Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory

Chapter 46 · Rule of Saint Benedict

Chapter 45: On Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory content

Mar. 25—July 25—Nov. 24

When anyone has made a mistake while reciting a Psalm, a responsory, an antiphon or a lesson, if he does not humble himself there before all by making a satisfaction, let him undergo a greater punishment because he would not correct by humility what he did wrong through carelessness.

But boys for such faults shall be whipped.