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.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 4)

It is to find workers in his cause that God calls out like that to all peoples.

(From para. 4 of Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Do I remain committed to seeking my highest calling, in faith, true self-knowledge, and service?

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val latonaJanuary 3, 2013 at 4:13 AM
"Even before you ask me, I will say to you: "Here I am." It takes faith to accept this. I must leave the self behind completely, John Main tells me, and accept with fidelity and simplicity the demand of the mantra that takes me into the realm of faith beyond how I am feeling, thinking, and analyzing in the moment. This is the challenge for me in this Church proclaimed "Year of Faith".
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Roger SessionsJanuary 3, 2013 at 6:21 AM
Seeking workers in a multitude of people, God calls out and says again: Is there anyone here who yearns for life and desires to see good days (Ps 34:13)? If you hear this and your answer is I do, God then directs these words to you...

In the silence of meditation, when I am lucky, I am able to hear God's voice and respond, "I do."
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