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.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Chapter 49: How Lent should be observed in the monastery
I am reminded that lent means "Springtime", a time of freshness and beauty and flowers and new life after the dead of winter. A time of Resurrection and embraced joy. Abba, keep me always an "Easter person", gladly entering into this cycle of daily death and resurrection, beginning with my twice-daily meditation and the mantra, the doorway to this rhythm and to you, here, within me.
I am reminded that lent means "Springtime", a time of freshness and beauty and flowers and new life after the dead of winter. A time of Resurrection and embraced joy. Abba, keep me always an "Easter person", gladly entering into this cycle of daily death and resurrection, beginning with my twice-daily meditation and the mantra, the doorway to this rhythm and to you, here, within me.
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