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.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraphs 6-7)

As to pursuing our own will we are warned against that when scripture says to us: turn away from your own desires; and in the Lord's prayer itself we pray that his will may be brought to fulfilment in us. (From para. 6 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

What is "the will of God" but for me to choose the most redemptive way of living?

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Wally SaundersJanuary 28, 2014 at 5:51 AM
Falling in love more and more each day and joyfully surrendering to Reality is, to me, what humility is all about.
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valJanuary 28, 2014 at 10:13 AM
O Lord, my God, you are the ground of my being and I am rooted in you. Keep me always mindful of you and your love for me. Be my strength as I walk in your way for my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak.
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