Chapter 41: The times for community meals

The principle is that the superior should manage everything so prudently that the saving work of grace may be accomplished in the community and whatever duties the community undertakes they may be carried out without murmuring. (From para. 1 of Ch. 40 of St. Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Benedict feeds me with more than a meal: He gives meaning and substance to my days, urging me to co-create with God in blessing the world with opportunities for grace.