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.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Chapter 18: The order for reciting the psalms (paragraph 1)

Each hour begins with following verse: O God come to my assistance, O Lord make haste to help me. (From para. 1 of Ch. 18 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

The psalmist who wrote this verse and Benedict's selection of it, Cassian's recommendation of it as a formula for continuous prayer, John Main's renewal of Cassian's teaching of the mantra -- all of this teaches me that at any moment I can choose where I place my attention.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersJune 24, 2019 at 5:27 AM
Fidelity to my daily meeting you in the psalms complements my fidelity to my twice-daily meeting you in my meditation, Abba, All ways to keep our relationship my utterly clear priority.
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