Chapter 18: The order for reciting the psalms (paragraphs 1-2)
Each hour begins with the following verse: O God come to my assistance, O Lord make haste to help me. (From para. 1 of Ch. 18 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
I experience so deeply in my heart the resonance that Benedict begins each hour with the exact same verse that Cassian recommends for continuous prayer. Maranatha, come Lord Jesus!
I experience so deeply in my heart the resonance that Benedict begins each hour with the exact same verse that Cassian recommends for continuous prayer. Maranatha, come Lord Jesus!
“O God, come to my assistance, O Lord make haste to help me”, Maranatha translated and repeated: what power in these words! A spiritual director introduced me to the power of these words/this “word”, the same woman who introduced me to John Main and WCCM. She was a 90-year-old nun, an ex-WWII army nurse who was at the Normandy invasion. She described how her repeating this phrase continuously enabled her to recover from the severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder she developed from living the horrors of war.
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