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, December 14, 2019

Chapter 61: Monastic pilgrims from far away (paragraphs 1-2)

It may happen, of course, that one of them may find something to point out in criticism about the customs of the monastery, using sound arguments in a spirit of charitable deference. In that case the superior should consider the whole question with care and prudence in case it was for this very purpose that the pilgrim was sent by the Lord. (From para. 1 of Ch. 61 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Pilgrims come into my life, sometimes bringing conflict, affection, or other dynamics. And I am a pilgrim in theirs.With the practice of meditation, and inn God's own time, our relationships have the potential to harmonize and transform us.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersDecember 15, 2019 at 7:17 AM
“...consider the whole question with care and prudence in case it was for this very purpose that the pilgrim was sent by the Lord.” This reminds me that the authors of Scripture or of whatever I chance to use for my lectio can be “pilgrims from far away” with a message for me from you, Abba.
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