Capuchin Constitutions of 1925

The text presented here is a translation of the following French edition:

Laurenti C. Card. (1927). Règle et Testament du séraphique Père Saint François avec les Constitutions des Frères Mineurs Capucins. Librairie Saint-François d’Assise, 4, rue Cassette. Imprimatur J. Cawet, vic. gen. PDF, Online.

These are the last constitutions before the false council Vatican II. The subtitles of the different chapters come from the Rule of the Friars Minor, not from the Constitutions.

• Preface
• Chapter 1
  In the name of the Lord, begins the life of the Friars Minor.
• Chapter 2
  Of those who wish to embrace this life, and how they should be received.
• Chapter 3
  On the Divine Office, fasting, and how the Brothers must go about the world.
• Chapter 4
  That the Brothers should in no way receive money.
• Chapter 5
  On the manner of working.
• Chapter 6
  That the Brothers appropriate nothing; that they beg alms; and on sick Brothers.
• Chapter 7
  On the penance to be imposed on Brothers who have fallen into sin.