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, August 10, 2019

Chapter 57: Members of the community with creative gifts

If there are any in the community with creative gifts, they should use them in their workshops with proper humility, provided that they have the permission of the superior. (From para. 1 of Ch. 57 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

My understanding of "creative gifts" is expanding, and I see that creative gifts are not just limited to a few. A creative response to life is everyone's birthright, just as a contemplative response is. Creativity, then, is not just an individual gift, but a life-giving response to seeing what really is.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersAugust 10, 2019 at 5:41 AM
Show up for the page, for each of these words I scribble—to that you invite me, Abba, every day,every moment.
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