The Sons will take breakfast and afternoon collation standing and as quickly as possible. You can drink milk, tea or mate, and eat bread, in accordance with your needs. The Superior can offer sweets, butter, et cetera, in holiday or when he deems proper.
In Houses of Community, although just the Squires and Damsels should compulsorily make a Retreat of one day every month, all Sons, of any group, even Knights and Ladies, must make a spiritual Retreat every month in common.
The Sons never should abandon their period of study and prayer for a work, however urgent it is; but if the Superior or Director assigns them a task out of the period of manual work, they should perform it very quickly and joyfully.
All Sons will go to their assigned place as soon as the bell sounds.
The Superior will ring the little bell after a prudential time to permit the Sons to be together.
In Houses of Community, the Radius of Stability and privacy in rooms where the Ordained Sons live must be preserved.
The Sons will not leave the Radius of Stability for any cause and will not tread on outside the established area without due permission.
To be an Ordained Son is:
To gain nothing.
To have nothing.
To be nothing.
The Vow of Ordination is not the practice of Silence and Fidelity, or of Obedience, in particular, or any other Vow of Virtue: it is the perfection of these Vows, or rather, of their physical, mental and spiritual integrity.