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, January 13, 2016

Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 5-6)

They should make their own the different ways of teaching which the Apostle Paul recommended to Timothy when he told him to make use of criticism, of entreaty and of rebuke. (From para. 5 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

If I'm to know how to guide someone most appropriately, I must first listen to them with the ear of my heart.

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WallyJanuary 15, 2016 at 5:08 AM
What could be more important for me to remember in the course of fulfilling my Abbot (read grandparent, parent, spouse, leader, friend) responsibilities than to remember what Richard Rohr says simply today in his "Daily Meditation":

"God is not 'out there'."
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