Chapter 41: The times for community meals

The principle is that the superior should manage everything so prudently that the saving work of grace may be accomplished in the community and whatever duties the community undertakes they may be carried out without any excuse for murmuring. (From para. 1 of Ch. 41 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Managing everything so prudently that the saving work of grace may be accomplished -- to me, this is discernment, a fruit of meditation. In this sense, discernment becomes a way of life, of being more and more open to what is, and responding in life-giving ways.