historical writings 922 8. On each Sunday and feast, after the midday meal, let them read the rubrics of the Missal and Roman Breviary. Daily,300 while all preserve the silence from which the Vicar ought never to grant dispensation, let them read clearly during the midday and afternoon meal, for the edification of spirit and progress in virtue: Norma Vitae, Sacred Scripture, The Little Mirror for Religious,301 The Book of Examples and The Book of the Pious Brother Helpers,302 as well as The Imitation of Christ.303 9. On Sundays and feasts, let them sing Mass according to our custom. Let them all recite the Litany of Loreto or the Litany of the Name of Jesus on ordinary days during the read Mass for our Congregation. 10. The common flagellation, commonly called the discipline, is to take place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, in common, for the duration of the Psalm Miserere [Ps 51] and De Profundis [Ps 130]. In the spirit of devotion, we recommend the daily private use of the discipline upon awaking and upon laying down to sleep.304 Manual labor, although quite brief, ought never to be neglected. 11. At the end, we ardently recommend, to all of you, love for God, devotion to the most elect Virgin and to the holy Patrons, mutual love, peace, harmony, the observance of the holy vows, love for zealous prayer and solid mortification, humility, patience, gratitude and perseverance with the help of God in this holy vocation. We also greatly entreat you that you not cease to continually commend me, a poor old man, in your prayers to the Lord God. Given in the Lord’s Cenacle, inNew Jerusalem, on April 19, 1690. [Place of the Seal] Your Unworthy Servant in the Lord Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary (handwritten) 300 This reading of the rubrics of the Missal and Roman Breviary as prescribed by NV took place “nonnullis diebus” (on some days). Cf. ibid. 301 This book, with the Latin title Speculum parvum Religiosorum, was published in Krakow by F. Ferdinand Ohm (or Januszowski), O.P. Cf. Positio, p. 485, n. 12. 302 There is no known bibliographical note relating to these books. 303 Cf. NV, Part I, Ch. VI, §§ 2 and 5. 304 Common and private use of the discipline was prescribed in Norma Vitae, but without specifying its duration. Cf. ibid, Ch. IV, § 6.
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