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.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Prologue to the Rule (paragraph 7)

Well then, brothers and sisters, we have questioned the Lord about who can dwell with him in his holy place and we have heard the demands he makes on such a one; we can be united with him there, only if we fulfil those demands. We must, therefore, prepare our hearts and our bodies to serve him under the guidance of holy obedience. (From para. 7 of The Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

May my heart lead me to prepare my body -- to be fit -- to truly serve others, to transmit the divine energy source of love.

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valJanuary 15, 2015 at 6:01 AM
We have "questioned" and we have "heard" the "demands" and we can only be united with him there if we fulfill those demands in "holy obedience". My questions and the answers to those questions come together into one point of reference by which my life takes on meaning, service through love. Meditation prepares my heart for "holy obedience" " away from egoism" and into "the infinite love of God".
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