Chapter 7

In what manner the sisters are to observe their manual works.

The sisters to whom God has bestowed the gift of working, should employ themselves faithfully and devoutly after Tierce, in such works as tend to the common good and decency of the Monastery, by which idleness, the enemy of the soul, will be expelled; and at the same time they are to be cautious not to let temporal things quench the spirit of devotion and prayer, to which they are only intended to contribute.

Secondly—The sisters shall be obliged to declare in Chapter, to the Abbess or her Vicaress, and before the company, what work they have done.

Thirdly—The same is to be observed if any send alms for the necessities of the sisters, that they may all, in common, recommend them to God, and the alms are to be distributed for the good of the community by the Abbess or her Vicaress, with the advice of the Council.