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.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 2)

In fact they should remember that they will have to account in the awesome judgement of God both for their own teaching and also for the obedience of their disciples.

(From para. 2 of ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

This morning, Benedict reminds me of the loving interdependence in community that is the hallmark of the Spirit. I'm not on this earth to save my soul alone, but to live in a way that strengthens the Body of Christ.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 10, 2013 at 3:09 AM
My meditation and prayer life may be hidden but the fruits are to be shared with others. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23)are the ways I can "proclaim"
God's "truth" and "salvation" to those around me through the Spirit of Christ.
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