Sunday, February 16, 2020

Chapter 13: Lauds on ordinary days (paragraph 2)


It is important that the celebration of Lauds and Vespers should never be concluded without the recitation by the superior of the whole of the Lord's prayer so that all may hear and attend to it. This is because of the harm that is often done in a community by the thorns of conflict which can arise. (From para. 2 of Ch. 13 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Forgiveness is liberating. It is a kind of forgetting that is a remembering of the One who lives in my heart, and who, through his presence, forgives and transforms me.

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