Chapter Sixty-Seven
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
On the Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
LET THE brethren who are to be sent on a journey commend them-selves to the prayers of all the brethren and of the Abbot. And after the last prayer in the Work of God, let a commemoration always be made for the absent brethren.
On the day that the brethren return from the journey, let them lie prostrate on the floor of the oratory at all the Canonical Hours, when the Work of God is finished, and beg the prayers of all on account of their failings, for they may have been caught off guard by the sight of evil or the sound of frivolous speech while on their journey.
And no one should presume to tell others what he has seen or heard outside of the monastery; for manifold difficulties arise from it. But if anyone presumes to do so, let him undergo the punishment of the Rule. The same applies to anyone who presumes to go beyond the enclosure of the monastery, or anywhere else, or to do anything, however little, without the order of the Abbot.