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 18, 2017

Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraphs 1-2)

The first of all things to aim at is to love the Lord God with your whole heart and soul and strength and then to love your neighbour as much as you do yourself. (From para. 1 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Everything I need for "Christian and monastic good practice" is right here and right now -- in this moment -- looking inward to God, outward to those around me, and not separating what I see.

WCCM Oblate Blog: Reflections from Daily Reading of the Rule of St. Benedict

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraphs 1-2)

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