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.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Chapter 57: Members of the community with creative gifts

If there are any in the community with creative gifts, they should use them in their workshops with proper humility, provided that the have the permission of the superior. (From para. 1 of Ch. 57 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I think creative activity undertaken with true humility is prayer.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersDecember 11, 2013 at 4:10 AM
My favorite term for addressing my Creator is simply that: My Creator. Today you invite me to Co-Create with you, My Creator. You are an Artist, the Great Artist. What a gift of love you give me in inviting me to make art with you, here, now, as we put these few words together, together.
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