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, February 8, 2013

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 18)

We should speak gently and seriously with words that are weighty and restrained. We should be brief and reasonable in whatever we have to say and not raise our voices to insist on our own opinions.

(From para. 18 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Because I may never know when I'm speaking to an angel, as Hebrews reminds me, or when an angel is speaking through me.

1 comment:

val latonaFebruary 11, 2013 at 3:06 AM
The less I talk the more I am able to see the content, motivation, and effect of what I do say. For this insight,at times,I give thanks to coming to stillness before God in meditation.
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