He who advises a relative when learning some skill or anything enjoined by the seniors, that he should rather learn reading, with three impositions.
He who dares to say to his immediate superior, ‘You shall not judge my case, but our senior, or the remaining brethren,’ or, ‘We will all go to the father of the community,’ must be punished forty days in penance, on bread and water unless he himself says lying prostrate before the brethren ‘I am sorry for what I said.’ Any brother who is kept at some work, however wearied he be, yet let him speak in his own cause to the overseer thus, ‘If you agree, I shall speak to the abbot, but if not, I shall not speak’; in another's cause, ‘If you keep on, do not feel it hard if perhaps I speak to the abbot’; so that obedience may be observed.
He who does not bring back what he is furnished with until the morrow, if he himself remembers and brings it back, with six blows; if he forgets until it is sought for, with twelve. If anyone has forgotten to ask his due of penance until the morrow, with six blows. He who murmurs, who says, ‘I will not do it unless the abbot or prior tells me,’ with three impositions. He who makes unnecessary journeys or detours, with twelve strokes. It is forbidden for any to hold [another's] hand.’’
cf. Cassian. Inst. ii. 15
Let the overseer provide for showing hospitality to arrivals, whether pilgrims or other brethren, and let all the brethren be ready to serve with all diligence for the sake of God. Although the overseer has not noticed or has not been present, let the remainder do carefully what is needful, and guard their baggage, until this is prepared and allotted to a keeper; but if they have neglected it, with a penance for this as seems good to be applied according to the judgement of the priest.
Let him who does not ask pardon when corrected do penance with an imposition. He who has visited other brethren in their cells without asking leave, let him do penance likewise; or if he has gone to the kitchen after nones without instructions or orders with an imposition; or if he has gone outside the wall, that is, outside the bounds of the monastery, without asking, with an imposition. Youths who are assigned a period for not speaking to each other, if they have transgressed it, with three impositions. Let them say this only, ‘You know that we are not allowed to speak with you.’ And if anyone has commanded what they are not allowed, let them say, ‘You know that we are not allowed’; and if the other commands further, let him be condemned to three impositions, but let them say, ‘We do what you say’, so that the good of obedience may be preserved. But they must particularly beware, that just as they do not speak together amongst themselves, so they do not confer either through the lips of another brother. But if they have transgressed this knowingly, let them do penance in the same way as if they had spoken amongst themselves.
Let him whose chrismal has fallen off and without breaking anything, be corrected with twelve blows.