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.
Why are we urged to have a space in our homes reserved for meditation and prayer where we can be quiet before God? I find an explanation in Chittister’s The Rule of Benedict that resonates with me.
“Let the oratory be what it is called,” Benedict said. Have a place where you can go in order to be about nothing but the business of being in the presence of God so that every other space in your life can become more conscious of that presence as well.”(p.226) Turning off cell phones and landlines and closing the door and lighting a candle for whatever time I have designated, fills me with great peace so that I can be that peace wherever I go.
Why are we urged to have a space in our homes reserved for meditation and prayer where we can be quiet before God? I find an explanation in Chittister’s The Rule of Benedict that resonates with me.
ReplyDelete“Let the oratory be what it is called,” Benedict said. Have a place where you can go in order to be about nothing but the business of being in the presence of God so that every other space in your life can become more conscious of that presence as well.”(p.226) Turning off cell phones and landlines and closing the door and lighting a candle for whatever time I have designated, fills me with great peace so that I can be that peace wherever I go.