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.

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Chapter 67: Those sent on a journey

Those who are sent on a journey should commend themselves to the prayers of all the community as well as of the superior, and, at the last prayer of the work of God in the oratory, there should always be a momento of all who may be absent. (From Ch. 67 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

There can be considerable geography that separates us as Oblates, but it seems to me that part of the mystery of our Oblate community is to find the presence in the absence, watching with wonder and gratitude as the Spirit finds new ways to create community among us.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersAugust 28, 2019 at 3:54 AM
Travel and its distractions challenge my connections to my Oblate Community and to You, Abba. But meditation and the mantra help maintain my conscious contact with You wherever I am.
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