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 4, 2013

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 14)

The seventh step of humility is that we should be ready to speak of ourselves as of less importance and less worthy than others, not as a mere phrase on our lips but we should really believe it in our hearts.

(From para. 14 of ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

My ego is less worthy than another's true nature.

1 comment:

val latonaFebruary 7, 2013 at 4:11 AM
Caught in the act of false humility by comparing myself to another who is as I stated in my mind doing greater things than I, the realization came that I am "wholly at God's disposition" and his unique destiny for me. " My only task is to be wholly open to that destiny". (J. Main) True humility lies in the "state of obediental love".
(j. Main)
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