Chapter 32: The tools and property of the monastery

Anyone 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.)

If this isn't a materialistic directive, then what is it? It's St. Benedict reminding me that the community I'm a part of is shot through with grace that I'm in danger of overlooking, unless I care for everything as if it's part of the Kingdom.