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 4, 2013

Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 5)

And so to prepare ourselves for the journey before us let us renew our faith and set ourselves high standards by which to lead our lives.

(From para. 5 of Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

I need to interiorize "high standards" to live them out authentically. To do this, Benedict urges me to understand such standards, not in terms of apparent achievement, but in terms of humility, of true self-knowledge in Christ.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 4, 2013 at 4:16 AM
Act and speak in "Truth from the heart", not from the mind in intellectualisms. Truth and love become one in the heart. So from the "deep centre of my true self" where I am known and loved I become conscious of union, love, with others rather than separation. Truth and love go hand in hand in word and deed.
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