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Monks' Rules (Author: Columbanus Hibernus)

Rule 11

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If any holds converse with a lay person unbidden, twenty-four psalms. If any, when he has completed his task, does not ask for something else and has done something unbidden, let him sing twenty-four psalms. If anyone has been double-tongued and distresses the hearts of the brethren, one day on a loaf and water. If any has eaten in a strange house unbidden and reaches his own house, one day on a loaf. If any has related a past sin, one day with a loaf. Or he who has walked in the world and speaks of the world's sin, one day on bread and water. And the lukewarm, who has heard someone murmuring and slandering or doing something against the rule and agrees to withhold confession, one day on a loaf.