Chapter 66: The porter or portress of the monastery

As soon as anyone knocks on the door or one of the poor calls out, the response, uttered at once with gentle piety and warm charity, should be 'thanks be to God' or 'your blessing, please'.

(From para. 1 of Ch. 66 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

This chapter encourages me to be vigilant about the reaction of my ego, whenever I am interrupted.