Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraphs 3-5)
Don't let your action be governed by anger nor nurse your anger against a future opportunity of indulging it.
(From para. 3 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
I notice that St. Benedict doesn't tell me here to be ashamed of experiencing anger. But, I don't have to choose, in that experience, to place my attention in an obsessive state of the ego. I can choose to place it in Christ.
(From para. 3 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
I notice that St. Benedict doesn't tell me here to be ashamed of experiencing anger. But, I don't have to choose, in that experience, to place my attention in an obsessive state of the ego. I can choose to place it in Christ.
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