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.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Chapter 19: Our approach to prayer

All of us, then, should reflect seriously on how to appear before the majesty of God in the presence of his angels. That will lead us to make sure that, when we sing in choir, there is complete harmony between the thought in our mind and the meaning of the words we sing. (From Ch. 19 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Such complete harmony could only be the gift of God in whose presence I merely practice attention beyond myself.

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valFebruary 25, 2017 at 6:48 AM
Appearing "before the majesty of God in the presence of his angels", scares me.
That is why I need to get to know God through, in, and with prayer. No scratch that word, "prayer" and let me say, "conversation". I have to talk and listen. I talk throughout the day, and then listen with the mantra. I have to listen real hard because He whispers real softly.
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