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.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 5-6)

Thus in adapting to changing circumstances they should use now the encouragement of a loving parent and now the threats of a harsh disciplinarian.

(From para. 5 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

From the practice of meditation, I've learned to respond to changing circumstances by being less egocentric, and more attentive to the other.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 13, 2013 at 3:56 AM
"To vary with circumstances" means to me to look at every person as unique without prejudging. It is only from the heart that I begin to see and value and affirm that uniqueness.
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