Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 12)

The fifth step of humility is that we should not cover up but humbly confess to our superior or spiritual guide whatever evil thoughts come into our minds and the evil deeds we have done in secret. (From para. 12 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

St. Benedict challenges me to see that to deny aspects of myself that I don't like, or that I don't want others to know, is sin. I separate myself from the true self-knowledge of my relationship to God, who already loves me in my totality, and waits to transform me wholly in love.

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