Chapter 63: Community order (paragraph 1)
So, apart from those whom the superior has promoted for a more cogent reason or demoted for specific faults, all the others retain the order of their conversion to monastic life so exactly that one who arrived at the monastery door at the second hour must accept a place junior to another who came an hour earlier, whatever their age or former rank may have been.
(From para. 1 of Ch. 63 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
The moment of seeking Christ above all else, is the moment which I begin again in each meditation.
The moment of seeking Christ above all else, is the moment which I begin again in each meditation.
"And in no place whatever should age decide the order or be prejudicial to it; for Samuel and Daniel as mere boys judged priests."
ReplyDeleteAge is irrelevant to how we relate to God or to community.