CHAPTER XLIII
OF THOSE WHO COME
LATE TO THE WORK OF GOD
OR TO TABLE

Rule of St Benedict for the Day

IF there be craftsmen in the monastery, let them practise their crafts with all humility, provided the abbot give permission. But if one of them be puffed up because of his skill in his craft, supposing that he is conferring a benefit on the monastery, let him be removed from his work and not return to it, unless he have humbled himself and the abbot entrust it to him again. .. read more »