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.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 8-9)

It is above all important that monastic superiors should not underrate or think lightly of the salvation of the souls committed to them by giving too much attention to transient affairs of this world which have no lasting value.

(From para. 8 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Things start to fall into their proper place, when I move in the sphere of God's presence.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 16, 2013 at 2:40 AM
When I recognize the presence of Christ in my life, the awareness of myself, the awareness of people and circumstances are filled with that presence. I am living the fidelity to the meditation practice and the mantra. My faith becomes life; meditation becomes life.
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