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.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Chapter 63: Community order (paragraphs 2-3)

In that way they will conform to scripture which say they should try to be the first to show respect for each other.

(From para. 3 of Ch. 63 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

It seems to me wonderfully true, that life-giving order emerges out of everyone being the first -- the first to show kindness to the other.

1 comment:

val latonaDecember 19, 2012 at 4:05 AM
Respect shown for another is my mindfulness of and attention to that person at the very moment we meet. "Mindfulness", "attention", and this "very moment" are not these the words that describe meditation?
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