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.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Chapter 73: This Rule is only a beginning

Whoever you maybe, then, in your eagerness to reach your Father's home in heaven, be faithful with Christ's help to this small Rule which is only a beginning.

(From para. 2 of Ch. 73 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

Benedict encourages me and inspires me, but he doesn't instruct be to be perfect. Only faithful.

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val latonaMay 2, 2013 at 4:27 AM
In Exodus 18:18, Moses' father-in-law speaking to Moses with advice says to him, "For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone." I cannot "do it alone", that is live fully in Christ. I have the gift of the John Main meditation practice and then through him the Rule of Benedict so that I am not alone but have a community for assistance and guidance and direction.
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val latonaMay 8, 2013 at 2:48 AM
For me,a meditator, the Rule is a necessary tool. I could get lost in my own rationale that I am doing enough by sitting in meditation. The Rule calls me into community to bear out in my daily life what the heart discovers in silence.
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