Chapter XIII: On hearing Mass and attending meetings.

Let all the healthy brother and sisters of each city or place, hear Mass [Missae officium] each day (if they can do so conveniently), and let them assemble each month in the church or place, in which, and/or to which the ministers have taken care to point out, to hear Solemn Mass there. Moreover, let each one give $1 [usualis monetae denarium] to the almoner [missario], who is to collect this money, and let them divide it fittingly by the counsel of the ministers among the brothers and sisters burdened by poverty, and those especially infirm, and those, who are noticeably lacking in funeral arrangements, and then among the other poor. Besides from the same monies let them make offerings to the church where they gather [Ecclesia memoratae]. And then (if they can do so conveniently) let them take care to have man, religious and competently instructed in the word of God, to exhort, solicitously admonish and to induce them to penance and undertaking the works of mercy. Let each strive, while Mass is being celebrated, and the homily is being given, to observe silence; let him be intent on prayer and his duty, except when the utility of the fraternity impedes him.