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, August 19, 2013

Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 1-2)

The grounds on which a candidate is elected abbot or abbess must be the quality of their monastic life and the wisdom of their teaching, even if they are the last in order in the community.

(From para. 1 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

St. Benedict teaches me: Order in community creates conditions for growth and expansion -- the expansion of the Spirit that transcends order.

1 comment:

Roger SessionsDecember 20, 2012 at 7:32 PM
"Goodness of life and wisdom in teaching must be the criteria for choosing the one to be made abbot or prioress "

This is the criteria I should use for choosing all of my teachers.
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