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.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 4)

If you do that, he says, I shall look on you with such love and my ears will be so alert to your prayer that, before you so much as call on me, I shall say to you: here I am. (From para. 4 of the Prologue to Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

The intimacy of this sacred statement leaves me almost at a loss for words, as I realize that I can open myself to be eternally beloved.

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Melanie CondesMay 4, 2014 at 4:25 AM
Just today, i started to say my Divine Office with renewed attention and fervor. For a long time I was guilty of practicing it quite mechanically. Oh Lord, thank You very much for always there waiting for me each time I come back to You after a fall.
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Wally SaundersMay 4, 2014 at 5:33 AM
“And the Lord seeking his laborer in the multitude . . . he cries out . . . “: open my ears and my heart to hear your cry, Lord, and to embrace the daily death that following you entails. Help me to respond, as St. Francis did in his lifetime, “Welcome, Sister Death!” And thus pass through with you to the new “life” and “good days” the Rule alludes to today.
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