Excerpt from Declarations on the Rule of Our Holy Father St. Benedict and Statutes of the American-Cassinese Congregation Declaration I]. Let the Abbot call to gether the whole community.5. \vhen the Abbot is absent, a Chapter can not be called without his permission to deliberate about such matters of importance as must be transacted with the consent of the Chapter. All the professed monks who are in higher Orders, whether solemnly or simply professed, who live in the monastery and who can easily be summoned to the Chapter, take part in the Chapter proceedings, unless on account of ecclesiastical or regular censure, any one should be debarred from the exercise of his privilege. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.