The Rule of Life

22 5. At least when inside the house in summer, wooden san- dals will be worn with bare feet. Outdoors, for the sake of pro- priety, and in the winter in cold regions for reasons of health, simple, uniform but not extravagant shoes are permitted. Hats lined with sheep’s wool are not forbidden to be used to protect the body in a cold climate, after the Superior General of the Congregation has been consulted. The brother-workers will have to wear a different habit from the priests: a habit reaching to the ankles, of grey color, and a mantle without a collar. (By worker are understood those who in choir cannot perform the Office of the Dead and devotions with the others in the Latin language.) 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 sim- ple woolen cloth, or with a rough blanket. All will have the uniform clerical tonsure, according to the size proper to each order. 17 Everyone will also shave their beard and moustache monthly. 6. Common flagellation will be on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday, for your own sins and those of others, espe- cially 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. C HAPTER F IVE R ECOLLECTION 1. Your continual interior silence will consist in this: that you will acknowledge, worship and bless God present every- where, and thus you will walk in His sight modestly, faithfully and piously as it is proper for servants to behave in the pres- 17 That is, the minor and major orders such as porter, exorcist, etc.