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.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Prologue to The Rule (paragraph 4)

If you [answer, "I"], he says, I shall look on you with such love and my ears will be so alert to your prayer that, before you so much as call on me, I shall say to you: here I am.

(From para. 4 of the Prologue to Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

The consciousness of the person of Jesus dwells in my heart: I am already in relationship, in the most intimate way, and all my outward relationships are meant to flow from this reality.

1 comment:

val latonaSeptember 4, 2012 at 3:15 AM
"What is more delightful than this voice of the Lord calling to us?" Meditation and lectio divina prepare me to hear and recognize that "voice" with the ears of the heart in silence and daily life.
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