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.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Chapter 48: Daily manual labor (paragraphs 1-2)

Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore all the community must be occupied at definite times in manual labour and at other times in lectio divina. (From para. 1 of Chap. 48 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Don't waste my time on trivial things. Allow time to be holy, allow a wholesome rhythm to my life. Choose where to place my attention. At every moment.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersNovember 30, 2018 at 4:32 AM
“A book to read thoroughly . . . “: fast food and my fast-paced life can kill me, Abba, as the epidemic of obesity and drug addiction demonstrates. Media addiction can kill my Spirit as well. The disciplines of daily Lectio, Spiritual Reading, and meditation are my antidotes.
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