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.

Friday, December 21, 2018

Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 3-4)

They should not be trouble-makers nor given to excessive anxiety nor should they be too demanding and obstinate, nor yet interfering and inclined to suspicion so as never to be at rest. (From para. 4 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Benedict allows me to be a little anxious and demanding and obstinate, but only because I am still learning to rest in the Lord. But, it's from that point of rest that I can be most present and respond most appropriately.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersDecember 21, 2018 at 4:31 AM
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God,” wrote Teilhard de Chardin. Meditation increases the inner joy and peace that makes me a more effective “abba”, papa and grandpa, Abba.
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