Chapter 4: Guidelines for Christian and monastic good practice (paragraphs 9-13)

The workshop in which we are called to work along these lines with steady perseverance is the enclosure of the monastery and stability in community life. (From para. 13 of Ch. 4 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

For me, the stability of which Benedict speaks, is a powerful way to characterize fidelity to the mantra, rootedness in God, and sincerity in selfless attention to the other.