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.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Chapter 20: The ideal of true reverence in prayer

When we come, then, with our requests in prayer before the Lord, who is God of all creation, is it not all the more important that we should approach him in a spirit of real humility and a devotion that is open to him alone and free from distracting thoughts? (From Ch. 20 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Meditation teaches me that my "requests in prayer before the Lord" might simply be a turning towards God, without a need to make anything happen, but to discover grace in what is. And then, to go forward from there, without fear.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersJune 27, 2019 at 3:31 AM
John Main calls prayer “Transcendence realized”, and Thomas Aquinas, contemplation “simple enjoyment of the truth.” I call it enjoying the comfort of a small child in his Mother’s arms.
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