Monday, April 23, 2018

Chapter 67: Those sent on a journey


Those who are sent on a journey should commend themselves to the prayers of all the community as well as of the superior, and, at the last prayer of the work of God in the oratory, there should always be a momento of all who may be absent. (From Ch. 67 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Sometimes my journeys are the undesirable ones of wandering away from life-giving routine and spiritual discipline, from my place in community, from openness to reality rather than to fantasy.  But the "momento" of my true identity in Christ is to remember, to return, to re-begin saying the mantra.

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