Chapter XIV: On the infirm and deceased brothers.

But when any of the brothers happens to be infirm, let the ministers be bound in person and/or through another, or others (if the infirm request this) to visit the sick once each week, inducing him solicitously to receive Penance (as they think is better and more efficaciously expedient), ministering to his necessities from the common fund. And if the aforesaid infirm person passes from the present life [de praesenti luce], let it be announced to the brothers and sisters present, both in the city and/or place, where he happened to die, that they are to take care to personally be present at the funeral the deceased. From which [ceremony], let them not depart until the solemnities of Masses have been celebrated, and the body buried in the grave. We wish that this is also to be observed concerning the infirm and deceased sisters. Furthermore, within the eight days immediately following the death of the one buried, let each of the brothers and sisters say, on behalf of his soul, if a priest, namely, one Mass, if one can read the Psalter, the 50 psalms, and those illiterate a Pater noster every day and at the end of each [of the above] let them add a Requiem aeternam. And after these, let them have celebrated within the year three Masses on behalf of the brothers and sisters, both living and faithfully [salute] departed. Let those who know the Psalter say it, and let the others not omit saying the Lord's Prayer 100 times, at the end of which each is to add a Requiem aeternam.