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.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraphs 1-3)

The Word of God in scripture teaches us in clear and resounding terms that anyone who lays claim to a high position will be brought low and anyone who is modest in self-appraisal will be lifted up.

(From para. 1 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Modesty in self-appraisal suggests a lightness of being to me -- a detachment from the weight of the ego, making way for expansion of spirit.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 28, 2013 at 3:50 AM
The previous chapter on cherishing silence and keeping a watch on my speech is the doorway for me to open into a reflection on humility. Why? Because in silence I "see" and "feel" that there is far more beyond my level of perception.
Listening draws me away from an infatuation with the self.
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