Chapter 41: The times for community meals
The principle is that the superior should manage everything so prudently that the saving work of grace may be accomplished in the community and whatever duties the community undertakes they may be carried out without any excuse for murmuring. (From para. 1 of Ch. 41 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
Prudent management allows the saving work of grace to happen. To me, this means that prudent management emerges out of an inner stillness that is attuned to love.
The Rule provides for my bodily as well as my spiritual nourishment. I schedule my morning and evening meditation time for the same reason I order my times for “refection”.
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