Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 4)
Otherwise all must keep their proper place in the community order, because whether slave or free we are all one in Christ and we owe an equal service in the army of one Lord who shows no special favour to one rather than another.
(From para. 4 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
The experience of meditation helps me to discover my unique identity in Christ, and to see how this is the true for everyone.
(From para. 4 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
The experience of meditation helps me to discover my unique identity in Christ, and to see how this is the true for everyone.
We are forced to look at differences-differences in life-styles,dress, behavior,faiths, political alignments,economic classes. All of these cause dissension,friction, prejudice,discrimination division and even "favoritism". At the heart of my meditation is not division but union-union with the heart of God and the heart of the world.
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