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Lectio tibi sit assidua, jugisque oratio. Dividantur tibi tempora et officia, ut postquam legeris ores, postquam oraveris legas. Sic alternes perpetim haec duo bona, ut ab iisdem nullo sis tempore otiosa. Quod si aliquid manibus operandum est, vel certe sustentaculis ciborum corpus reficiendum, alia tibi legai: ut dum manus vel oculi intenti sunt operi, pascat aures gratia sermouis divini. Si quidem oramus et legimus, et lubricam mentem a surreptionibus diaboli vis retrahimus; quanto proclivius humanus animus reptat ad vitia, si lectionis et orationis assiduae retentaculo non frenetur? Lectio te doceat, aliquid orando petas; postquant tero oraveris, iterum legendo inquire quod postules.
願讀經於你不輟，祈禱不止。願你的時間與本分有所分配，使你讀經之後便祈禱，祈禱之後便讀經。如此永遠交替這兩樣美善，使你無時不從事其中。倘若有什麼必須親手作工，或必須以飲食的供養恢復身體，便當有人為你誦讀：好使你的手或眼專注於工作時，神聖言語的恩典仍可餵養你的耳。因為我們若祈禱又讀經，便能把滑溜的心思從魔鬼的突襲中拉回；人的魂若不被不輟讀經與祈禱的約束所勒住，豈不更易滑向諸惡麼？願讀經教導你，在祈禱中有所祈求；但你祈禱之後，要再藉讀經尋求你所當祈求的。
Let reading be constant for you, and prayer unceasing. Let your times and duties be divided, so that after you have read you may pray, and after you have prayed you may read. Thus alternate these two goods perpetually, so that at no time may you be idle from them. But if anything must be worked with the hands, or surely the body must be refreshed by the sustenance of food, let something be read to you: so that while your hands or eyes are intent upon the work, the grace of the divine word may feed your ears. For if we pray and read, we withdraw our slippery mind from the surprises of the devil; how much more readily does the human soul slide into vices, if it is not bridled by the restraint of constant reading and prayer? Let reading teach you; ask something in prayer; but after you have prayed, again seek by reading what you may request.