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.

Monday, May 27, 2019

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 4)

The first step of humility is to cherish at all times the sense of awe with which we should turn to God. It should drive forgetfulness away... (From Ch. 4 of St. Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Turning, awe-ing, cherishing -- I'm touched by the energy of these words that can drive forgetfulness away. And, in driving forgetfulness away, driving self-will away. Saying the mantra is a remembering of my true self.

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Wally SaundersMay 27, 2019 at 4:25 AM
How awesome, Abba, to read your Word made flesh in everything about me and here within me, in the first Bible, the Holy Book of Nature. The humility of my fidelity to twice-daily meditation helps to open my eyes to your awe-full deifying light, Great Artist.
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