Friday, October 11, 2013

Chapter 8: The Divine Office at night


By that time, having rested until a little after midnight, they may rise with their food well digested. (From Ch. 8 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Time for rest and digestion, unfolding in an moderate and unhurried way, are physical practices like silence and stillness.  Such practices ground me in my body, in my heart. 

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