67 recollection You must be very strict regarding modesty. When you are about to give your body rest, you will lay it down in the straw and cover it with your own mantle, or with some simple woolen cloth, or with a rough blanket. All will have the uniform clerical tonsure, according to the size proper to each order.16 Everyone will also shave their beard and mustache monthly. 6. Common flagellation will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, for your own sins and those of others, especially for the dead. However, anyone will be able to make use of flagellation on any day on rising or before going to bed to honor our Lord, who was whipped, and as often as it will be imposed by the Superior. CHAPTER FIVE Recollection 1. Your continual interior silence will consist in this: that you will acknowledge, worship and bless God present everywhere, and thus you will walk in His sight modestly, faithfully and piously as it is proper for servants to behave in the presence of the Master. Make an effort to contemplate God in all creatures, and not only in yourselves, since we live and move and exist in Him (cf. Acts 17:28). In this way, He will never slip away from your mind. 2. Examine yourselves each hour to see how much you have progressed in the Love of the Lord or have failed. In this way, correct the failure and bring about your progress. Each hour, think that you are about to die, or at least that these hours slipping by will not return. In this way, you will work hard to merit continuously as much as possible, with the help of God, expecting the day’s wage, which is infallibly given to faithful servants (cf. Mt 20:2). 3. In church, or as often as you will find yourself in chapel, think that you are in Heaven. As many times as you cross before the 16 That is the minor and major orders such as porter, exorcist, etc.
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