Regula, caput VI
The Sacred Stillness of Saturday
Christ institutes a special Saturday silence honoring His Mother, forbidding any mention of her from morning until after her votive Mass.
Christ himself establishes here how and in which hours the sisters are to keep silence. "To preserve the weight of silence, no one is permitted to say anything at all about my Mother, from early morning right up until after the Mass in her honor has been sung.
Windows for Holy Speech
After the Marian Mass, limited speech is permitted for spiritual reading, table necessities, and brief conversation between grace and Vespers.
However, once that Mass is over, in the proper places between the Hours until the blessings of the table are read, permission is granted to speak about spiritual reading, the observance of the Rule, and any genuine necessities. But idle and silly talk must be entirely avoided in every place and at every time. Then, after grace has been said in church, the sisters may speak with one another until Vespers begins; and then silence must also be kept until they have read grace after supper in church — this is to be carefully observed. During that brief interval between grace and the collatio as well, permission to speak is granted.
The Return to Silence
Once collatio begins, strict silence resumes until the next day's Marian Mass, with exceptions only for necessary duties and the overarching call to orderly conduct.
But once the collatio has begun, silence must be kept with full attention, until the Mass in honor of my glorious Mother has been sung on the following day. And it must be understood that all the sisters without exception are bound by all the silences now written down, except those who are assigned to duties that properly cannot be carried out without speaking. For all things ought to be done in an orderly way, so that no occasion for wrongdoing may arise."
Read the original Latin
Christus statuit hic, qualiter et quibus horis per moniales silencium teneatur.
"Ad conseruandam grauitatem silencii a summo mane vsque ad post missam cantatam de Matre mea nulli loqui aliquid licitum sit. Finita autem illa missa in locis debitis inter horas, vsquequo legantur benedicciones mense, de collacione spirituali et obseruancia ordinis ac de quibuscumque veris necessariis licencia loquendi conceditur. Scurrilia vero et ociosa in omni loco omnique tempore penitus caueantur. Deinde lectis graciis in ecclesia inter se sorores loqui possunt, donec vesperas incipiant, et tunc eciam silencium, donec gracias post cenam in ecclesia legerint, sollicite est tenendum. Illo quoque modico interuallo, quod est inter gracias et collacionem, loquendi licencia condonatur. Incepta vero collacione omni studio silencium teneatur, donec in die sequenti vsque ad finem missa cantata fuerit de Matre mea gloriosa. Et sciendum est, quod ad omnia silencia iam conscripta sorores vniuersaliter astringantur preter eas, que ad officia talia deputantur, que sine loquela competenter non possunt exequi. Omnia enim racionabiliter debent fieri et vt occasio a prauis excludatur."
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