Course XLVI - Teaching 9: Instructions about Manual Works

The Director of Seminary will instruct all the Sons to join together even during the period of manual work; and if a Son should make certain special work apart from others, he must keep Rigorous Silence. During the period of manual work, the Sons should learn any task that may be useful to the Community. In Houses of women, they will learn needlework, patchwork, embroidery and any other work of the House. They should be active even during the period of recreation: usually, in Communities of men, they make rosaries or knit mats, and in Communities of women, they should knit or perform any similar task. After their stay in the Seminary, they should have learnt even coarsest works as washing, cooking and taking care of the orchard and domestic animals.
The Director has to instruct the Sons to recite prayers in common and to sing hymns, and the reading of an edifying book during the period of manual work, and over all when they make sedentary tasks.
Superiors should permit to their Directors and Vice-Directors a free performance of their specific duties, without any interference between Superior and Sons that are collaborating in this specialty. If they have to impart any especial order, they will do directly through the Director and Vice-Director.