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, April 19, 2016

Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 3-4)

They should not be trouble-makers nor given to excessive anxiety nor should they be too demanding and obstinate, nor yet interfering and inclined to suspicion so as never to be at rest. (From para. 4 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

My job is not to be busy about controlling people or events, but to discover contentment, by resting in the Lord. Here I engage the resourcefulness that springs from being one with my source.

1 comment:

WallyApril 19, 2016 at 5:17 AM
"They should not be . . . given to excessive anxiety . . . ." That so applies to me, Abba. What a worry wart you know I can be on any ordinary day. Meditation teaches me how to be simple, silent and still, even in the face of inner and outer earthquakes and turmoil. You teach me how to let go and let you and all your creation be.
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