Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Chapter 3: Calling the community together for consultation (paragraphs 2-3)


Such an ideal can be achieved only if everyone duly conforms to the authority of the Rule and no one gives way to self-will by deviating from it.  (From para. 2 of Ch. 3 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

It seems to me that health in a community or family comes from honoring relationships and responsibility, rather than self-centeredness.

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