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.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Chapter 20: The ideal of true reverence in prayer

When we come, then, with our requests in prayer before the Lord, who is God of all creation, is it not all the more important that we should approach him in a spirit of real humility and a devotion that is open to him alone and free from distracting thoughts?

(From Ch. 20 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

For me, true reverence has become an awareness of the space "between" between me and others, the the space in which love and relationship is transmitted, the "space" which may be God. How important then, to practice selfless attention, and to be free of distracting thoughts.

1 comment:

val latonaFebruary 26, 2013 at 3:46 AM
The distractions are there,always there. "Be still and know that I am God." To know that I am loved with a greater love than I can love myself brings me to a "felt" awareness of a Presence that is more powerful, and all-encompassing. It brings me to my knees in wonderment.
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