Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Chapter 32: The tools and property of the monastery


The superior should keep a list with the details of what has been issued to them so that, when one member of the community succeeds another in any responsibility, there may be no doubt about what items have been entrusted to each individual and what they have returned at the end. (From para. 1 of Ch. 32 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

St. Benedict's instructions on how to treat monastery property seem to me to blend mutual responsibility and good administration -- a universal sense of caring which is actually organized by a selfless view of reality.

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