Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 3-4)


[The abbot or abbess] should not be trouble-makers nor given to excessive anxiety nor should they be too demanding and obstinate, nor yet interfering and inclined to suspicion so as never to be at rest. 
(From para. 4 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Benedict, it seems to me, speaks of a kind of leadership that comes not from the ego (he lists its symptoms), but from the heart, which is the only true place of rest, in God. 

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