On Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
Mar. 26—July 26—Nov. 25
When anyone is engaged in any sort of work, whether in the kitchen, in
the cellar, in a shop, in the bakery, in the garden, while working at
some craft, or in any other place, and he commits some fault, or breaks
something, or loses something, or transgresses in any other way
whatsoever, if he does not come immediately before the Abbot and the
community of his own accord to make satisfaction and confess his fault,
then when it becomes known through another, let him be subjected to a
more severe correction.
But if the sin-sickness of the soul is a hidden one, let him reveal it
only to the Abbot or to a spiritual father, who knows how to cure his
own and others’ wounds without exposing them and making them public.