Let the Abbot show all care and concern towards offending brethren because “they that are in health need not a physician, but they that are sick.” Therefore, like a prudent physician he ought to use every opportunity to send consolers, namely, discreet elderly brethren, to console the wavering brother, as it were, in secret, and induce him to make humble satisfaction; and let them cheer him up “lest he be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow;” but, as the same Apostle saith, “confirm your charity towards him;” and let prayer be said for him by all.
