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.

Monday, November 6, 2017

Chapter 30: The correction of young children

There is a proper way of dealing with every age and every degree of understanding, and we should find the right way of dealing with the young. (From Ch. 30 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

What should be my response be to someone in whom I perceive an immaturity? I think it should be the kind of response that I would hope for, when someone perceived an immaturity in me. Firmness, if necessary, but also gentleness, acceptance, humble attention.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersNovember 6, 2017 at 4:26 AM
You have taught me, Abba, that my two children and my five grandchildren are really not mine. They are all yours. You have simply entrusted them to me for a while. What a joy when I remember that you and I are parenting and grand parenting together.
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