Chapter 2:  Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 1, continued)

In fact they should remember that they will have to account in the awesome judgement of God both for their own teaching and also for the obedience of their disciples. (From para. 1 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

What this passage says to me is that I'm not to project blame on  anyone for my own faults, but be responsible for the impact my example is having on others.