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.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Chapter 44: The reconciliation of those excommunicated

They should in complete silence simply lay their heads on the ground before the feet of all the community coming out of the oratory and stay there until the superior judges that they have done enough in reparation.

(From para. 1 of Ch. 44 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

St. Benedict tells me that true reconciliation is accomplished at the deepest of levels, in humble silence, in my heart.

1 comment:

Roger SessionsNovember 23, 2012 at 5:31 AM
When I sin against my community, it is from my community I must ask forgiveness.
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