WCCM Oblate Blog: Reflections from Daily Reading of the Rule of St. Benedict

WCCM Benedictine Oblates are encouraged to read a designated portion of the Rule daily, and to write a brief, personal response. I hope that this blog will support our Oblate community in this practice. Please, keep blog entries brief and in a first-person ("I") voice. Refrain from discussing, offering an opinion, or commenting on other entries. Simply consider how a particular section of the Rule is speaking to you in your present circumstances.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Chapter 51: Those on local errands or work

Any who are sent on an errand which will allow them to return to the monastery on the same day must not eat outside, in spite of pressing invitations whatever their source, unless the superior has approved this.

(From Ch. 52 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Meditation has made me more keenly aware of those activities which deaden my energy: trolling on the internet, working at a task grudgingly, and so on. Meditation has also taught me that seeking God is a full-time practice of loving fidelity; that's what transformation of consciousness is about.

1 comment:

Roger SessionsAugust 2, 2012 at 8:26 AM
"A Brother who is sent out on some business and is expected to return to the monastery that same day shall not presume to eat while he is out..."

My primary source of spiritual nourishment is my community.
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