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.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 7)

We must, therefore, prepare our hearts and bodies to serve him under the guidance of holy obedience. Conscious in this undertaking of our own weakness let us ask the Lord to give us through his grace the help we need.

(From para. 7 of Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB,1997.)

The first step in seeking God is to be conscious of my own weakness. Weakness is a place of silence, stillness, and simplicity, where Jesus enters in.

1 comment:

val latonaJanuary 6, 2013 at 3:52 AM
Reflecting on this paragraph, help to understand it in relationship to myself came from a sentence in a sermon by St. Leo the Great in today's readings. "The obedience of the star calls (me) to imitate its humble service: to be (a servant), as best (I can) of the grace that invites (all) to find Christ."
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