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, July 1, 2019

Chapter 24: Different degrees of severity in punishment

The severity of excommunication or any other punishment should correspond to the gravity of the fault committed, and it is for the superior to decide about the seriousness of faults. (From Ch. 24 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

How often as my ego asserted its "right" to overreact? As a balm, I aspire for self-control, appropriateness, and love.

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Wally SaundersJuly 1, 2019 at 4:02 AM
Time heals all my wounds and all my faults, Abba, not one of which diminishes your love for me in the least. As your child, I rejoice to grow in wisdom through each and every one of the bumps and bruises of our life together.
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