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.
“The oratory” and “the table” represent for me prayer and life in community. The Work of God, God’s work in me, happens in daily prayer and in daily relationships, and one flows from the other and back into the other. They are so interconnected. I can see why Benedict brings them together in this chapter.
What Benedict requests then is some awareness of a fault made at prayer and in community and that awareness is not enough. In Chapter 45, he goes onto say that more “severe punishment” might be needed “for failing to correct by humility the wrong committed through negligence”(RB 45.2).
“The oratory” and “the table” represent for me prayer and life in community. The Work of God, God’s work in me, happens in daily prayer and in daily relationships, and one flows from the other and back into the other. They are so interconnected. I can see why Benedict brings them together in this chapter.
ReplyDeleteWhat Benedict requests then is some awareness of a fault made at prayer and in community and that awareness is not enough. In Chapter 45, he goes onto say that more “severe punishment” might be needed “for failing to correct by humility the wrong committed through negligence”(RB 45.2).