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.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraphs 19-20)

Good habit and delight in virtue will carry us along. (From para. 20 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

In a sense, I would say that John Main quantified aspects of the practice of meditation to help establish understanding of it as a "good habit": 20-30 minutes, twice a day, and saying the mantra for the whole time of the meditation. But, what can emerge for me from this discipline is a creative rhythm to my life that carries me along.

1 comment:

Melanie CondesFebruary 8, 2018 at 4:51 AM
"A wise man is known by the fewness of his words"(Sextus, Enchidirion, 134 or 145)." Huhu, so guilty of being unwise.
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