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.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Chapter 24: Different degrees of severity in punishment

The severity of excommunication or any other punishment should correspond to the gravity of the fault committed, and it is for the superior to decide about the seriousness of faults. (From Ch. 24 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

How often has my ego asserted its "right" to overreact? May my temper give way to self-control, appropriateness, and love.

1 comment:

Melanie CondesMarch 1, 2018 at 4:08 PM
"The measure of excommunication or of chastisement
should correspond to the degree of fault," It is easier to see the fault of others than to see my fault. So it is wise for me to deeply listen to myself in order to see them and correct them... By the grace of the merciful God.
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