On Excommunication for Faults
Feb. 28 (29)—June 30—Oct. 30
If a brother is found to be obstinate, or disobedient, or proud, or
murmuring, or habitually transgressing the Holy Rule in any point and
contemptuous of the orders of his seniors, the latter shall admonish him
secretly a first and a second time, as Our Lord commands. If he fails to
amend, let him be given a public rebuke in front of the whole community.
But if even then he does not reform, let him be placed under
excommunication, provided that he understands the seriousness of that
penalty; if he is perverse, however, let him undergo corporal
punishment.