Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Chapter 45: Mistakes in the oratory


Anyone who makes a mistake in a psalm, responsory, antiphon or reading must have the humility to make immediate reparation there before all the community in the oratory. A failure to do that so clearly shows lack of the humility to put right a fault which was due to carelessness that it must incur a more severe punishment. (From Ch. 45 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I'm sorry for my failures of inattention, for my failures of humility and love. Thank God I'm not expected to be perfect, but simply to be full of faith.

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