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.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Chapter 43: Late-comers for the work of God or in the refectory (paragraphs 4-5)

In the refectory all must come to table together so as to offer their grace together as one community. (From para. 4 of Ch. 43 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Saint Benedict relates gratitude and oneness -- it seems to me that gratefulness is best experienced through the relationship of love.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersJuly 21, 2014 at 8:54 AM
“This then is the real meaning of faith: openness, perseverence, wakefulness, commitment to the pilgrimage.” (John Main, “Monastery Without Walls”, Kindle loc 990.) How easily my ego can distract me from the Path, from you, Abba. Once more, today, now, you strengthen me, awaken me to the adventure and joy of our pilgrimage together. With you I am always exactly on time.
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