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.

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