The Rule of St. Benedict - Chapter 38. The Reader For The Week

(1) Reading will always accompany the meals of the brothers. The reader should not be the one who just happens to pick up the book, but someone who will read for a whole week, beginning on Sunday.
(2) After Mass and Communion, let the incoming reader ask all to pray for him so that God may shield him from the spirit of vanity.
(3) Let him begin this verse in the oratory: "Lord open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise," (Ps 50[51]:17), and let all say it three times.
(4) When he has received a blessing, he will begin his week of reading.

(5) Let there be complete silence. No whispering no speaking — only the reader’s voice should be heard there.
(6) The brothers should by turn serve one another’s needs as they eat and drink, so that no one need ask for anything.
(7) If, however, anything is required, it should be requested by an audible signal of some kind rather than by speech.
(8) No one should presume to ask a question about the reading or about anything else, "lest occasion be given," [to the devil] (Eph 4:27; 1 Tim 5:14).
(9) The superior, however, may wish to say a few words of instruction.

(10) Because of holy Communion and because the fast may be too hard for him to bear, the brother who is reader for the week is to receive some diluted wine before he begins to read.
(11) Afterward he will take his meal with the weekly kitchen servers and the attendants.

(12) Brothers will read and sing, not according to rank, but according to their ability to benefit their hearers.

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