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.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Chapter 57: Members of the community with creative gifts

If there are any in the community with creative gifts, they should use them in their workshops with proper humility, provided that the have the permission of the superior. (From para. 1 of Ch. 57 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I think creative activity undertaken with true humility links me to God, and so becomes prayer.

1 comment:

Wally SaundersApril 13, 2015 at 5:42 AM
You, Abba, the Great Artist. You create objective beauty: real, beautiful things, like this planet, this universe and every atom and particle within it, including me. St Francis saw and lived this out. His Franciscan son, Duns Scotus, built his theology around the objective beauty of everything and everyone around me. And you invite me to co-create with you now, today, at this moment: to make something beautiful for you, as Mother Teresa put it so wonderfully.
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