Prologue to The Rule (paragraphs 1-2)
This, then, is the beginning of my advice: make prayer the first step in anything worthwhile that you attempt. (From para. 2 of Prologue to The Rule of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
At the beginning of the Prologue, Benedict links prayer to obedience, and so it seems to me that prayer becomes my request, my consent, for the grace to be obedient. Through obedience, anything I attempt becomes worthwhile, and so gradually my prayer for obedience becomes the song of my day.
At the beginning of the Prologue, Benedict links prayer to obedience, and so it seems to me that prayer becomes my request, my consent, for the grace to be obedient. Through obedience, anything I attempt becomes worthwhile, and so gradually my prayer for obedience becomes the song of my day.
Thank you, Abba, for the gift of another year, another opportunity, each day, one at a time, to learn to do as Benedict exhorts: to listen.
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