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, March 1, 2013

Chapter 24: Different degrees of severity in punishment

The severity of excommunication or any other punishment should correspond to the gravity of the fault committed, and it is for the superior to decide about the seriousness of faults.

(From Ch. 24 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

I see St. Benedict as concerned about faults against community, and it is also a fault against community for me to respond to another's fault, with a response that is in any way impulsive, egocentric, controlling, inappropriate.

WCCM Oblate Blog: Reflections from Daily Reading of the Rule of St. Benedict

Friday, March 1, 2013

Chapter 24: Different degrees of severity in punishment

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