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.

Saturday, August 31, 2019

Chapter 73: This Rule is only a beginning

The purpose for which we have written this rule is to make it clear that by observing it in our monasteries we can at least achieve the first steps in virtue and good monastic practice. (From para. 1 of Ch. 73 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

These are welcome words to me today, as consoling as John Main's assurance that, "in meditation, we are all beginners". St. Benedict accepts me as I am, offers me both compassion and challenge, and guides me in the experience of faith, hope, and charity.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersAugust 31, 2019 at 3:51 AM
By your grace, Abba, may I always keep a beginner’s mind, embracing the daily discipline of turning and becoming your child, of rejoicing to be your little one, with everyone and in everything I do.
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