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, January 30, 2019

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 8)

The second step of humility is not to love having our own way nor to delight in our own desires. (From para. 8 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Delight in my own desires, as wonderful as it sounds, is but an aspect of my heart closed in on itself. When life breaks open a heart, as it does, faith teaches me that the heart breaks open to love the whole world.

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Wally SaundersJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:13 AM
“Meditation is like the practice sessions of an athlete. The iron discipline leads to utter freedom of movement in the art of the performance . . . .” (John Main, Word Made Flesh). Today, Abba, with your Son and Spirit, you gift me with one more opportunity to practice humility and experience our utter freedom of movement as we dance through this day together!
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