Canon 46 Nuns and monks go out only with a blessing

Women who choose the ascetic life and are enrolled in a monastery, let them not go out at all. But if some unavoidable necessity should draw them to this, let them do it with the blessing and permission of the superior; and then not alone by themselves, but with some elderly women who hold the first place in the monastery, at the command of the abbess; but they are not permitted at all to sleep outside. And men also who pursue the solitary life, when need presses, let them too go out with the blessing of him who has been entrusted with the abbacy. So let those who transgress the definition now laid down by us, whether they be men or women, be subjected to fitting penances.