Monday, November 10, 2014

Chapter 32: The tools and property of the monastery


Any one who is negligent in dealing with the monastery property or allows it to deteriorate must be corrected with a view to improvement. (From para. 2 of Ch. 32 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I sometimes think that much of life is about maintenance. Benedict reminds me that the kingdom of God is within and among us, interpenetrating every single aspect of community, of creation. 

1 comment:

  1. “ . . . let no one presume . . . to have anything as his own . . . anything whatever . . . “. Everything I have, starting with this day of life itself, every thought and every image, every bit of knowledge, is not my own, Abba. You are the “one thing necessary”. You give yourself, Love itself, to me, here, now, in the present moment.

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