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.

Wednesday, December 11, 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 12, 2013 at 5:39 AM
“Narrow as is the path, the path that leads to life in general and the path of meditation in particular, it is not narrow-minded. The narrowness signifies a focusing not a blinkering of vision, attention not exclusion and integration rather than repression.” (Laurence Freeman, “Community of Love” p.ix). Focus, attention and integration of my entire life: what awesome fruits come from my commitment to Benedict’s meditation community.
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