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, February 24, 2013

Chapter 19: Our approach to prayer

That will lead us to make sure that, when we sing in choir, there is complete harmony between the thoughts in our mind and the meaning of the words we sing.

(From Ch. 19 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

John Main speaks of the mantra, metaphorically, as a harmonic. Sounding the word in my heart, it harmonizes all parts of my being, and it harmonizes my being with all of creation.

1 comment:

NonaFebruary 26, 2013 at 8:27 AM
This bit of the Rule brought to mind the hymn "The Summons" used in Sundays liturgy. Did I hear the questions or just mouth the words. Do i really mean that I will come and follow, and go where I don't know etc. When there is harmony am I open for transformation? and to follow in Her footsteps.
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