Day 85: Chapter 46: On Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters

When anyone is engaged in any sort of work,
whether in the kitchen, in the cellar, in a shop,
in the bakery, in the garden, while working at some craft,
or in any other place,
and he commits some fault,
or breaks something, or loses something,
or transgresses in any other way whatsoever,
if he does not come immediately
before the Abbot and the community
of his own accord
to make satisfaction and confess his fault,
then when it becomes known through another,
let him be subjected to a more severe correction.

But if the sin-sickness of the soul is a hidden one,
let him reveal it only to the Abbot or to a spiritual father,
who knows how to cure his own and others' wounds
without exposing them and making them public.