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, November 23, 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.

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Wally SaundersNovember 23, 2014 at 5:24 AM
“Christian community is in essence the experience of being held in reverence by others and we in our turn reverencing them.” (John Main, “Word into Silence”, Kindle loc 1327). How irreverent, disrespectful and self-centered, then, is my chronic tardiness. Late for supper, late out the door, late for church or any appointment with a member of my family, which is my most local Christian community. Keeping my spouse or others waiting: how I need to be reminded of how irreverent I am being doing so.
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