Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraph 6-8)
Your hope of fulfilment should be centred in God alone. (From para. 6 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
In Awakening 1, John Main says, [Jesus] took prayer as the ground of {...} being, not in the sense of restoring ancient rites or ancient customs from which people had fallen away, but he was recalling people to the basic, necessary fundamental attitude we must have to God, to God as the most significant and important relationship in our life -- in human life. I hold this grounding and expansive truth in my heart: God is the most significant and important relationship in my life.
“47. Keep the reality of death always before your eyes,” The gift of my twice-daily meditation, Abba, keeping death as my "close Advisor", as Benedict (and Don Juan, the Yaqui guru) recommends, helps me to enjoy each day, each moment, because then you and I are living it together.
ReplyDelete'To guard one's tongue against evil and depraved speech.' I failed in this area today. Yeah I need to be accepting of other peoples weaknesses and now it is time to accept mine. Please bless me oh Lord
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