The measure of excommunication and punishment should be determined according to the gravity of the offence, which shall be decided by the abbot. If a brother be found guilty of a lesser offence, let him be excluded from the common table. And this shall be the rule for one who is excluded from the common table: that until he have made satisfaction he shall not intone a psalm or antiphon in the oratory, nor read a lesson. Let him have his meals alone after the community meals: if the brethren, for instance, eat at the sixth hour, let him eat at the ninth; if they eat at the ninth hour let him eat in the evening; until by suitable satisfaction he have obtained pardon.