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, August 26, 2017

Chapter 68: The response to orders that seem impossible

If the superior after listening to this submission still insists on the original command, then the junior must accept that it is the right thing and with loving confidence in the help of God obey. (From Ch. 68 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Christ blesses me with those who challenge my notions of my perceived limitations. In this way, what I might dismiss as impossible for me, becomes, through deep listening, my "growing edge".

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Melanie CondesAugust 26, 2017 at 1:21 AM
When something difficult and seems impossible is dish out on me, I have to take with much humility and meekness of heart for this maybe the chance for me to improve. Everyday I have to submit myself to a lifelong learning and stretching.
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Wally SaundersAugust 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM
Some days life seems impossible, Abba. I can feel weak, droopy-limbed, old, spent. Yet you tell me, through your Apostle, to " . . . Stiffen up those drooping limbs, and they will not be broken but strengthened . . . ". You have me take just one step on my thousand-mile daily journey. And once more you surprise me with joy.
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