Chapter 31: The qualities required by the cellarer (paragraph 1)

All the utensils of the monastery and in fact everything that belongs to the monastery should be cared for as though they were the sacred vessels of the altar. 
(From paragraph 1 of Chapter 31 of St. Benedict's Rule.)

If there's a single line in the Rule that speaks to me profoundly of my life as a householder, perhaps this is it. Meditation gradually transforms my vision of daily chores  -- even including repetition, repair and maintenance! -- so that I might glimpse the incarnational reality that lies at the heart of all of creation.