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, February 3, 2013

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 13)

Yet I am always in your presence.

(From para. 13 of ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Whatever conditions that I find myself in, unacceptable to my ego, begin to be transformed by this truth.

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val latonaFebruary 6, 2013 at 3:28 AM
Death sets me straight about ambitions and accomplishing great tasks. Who's going to remember me anyway? Whatever I do is small. I cannot save the whole world by anything I do. But everything I do makes a difference even the smallest act if it is done with love for another.
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