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.)
Prudent management allows the saving work of grace to happen. To me, this means that prudent management emerges out of an inner stillness that is attuned to love.
Radical acceptance of what is at this moment, without a peep of murmuring, total forgiveness, that is, giving up all hope of changing the past: that’s what you and Benedict invite me to, just for today.
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