Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Chapter 49: How Lent should be observed in the monastery


Therefore we urge that all in the monastery during these holy days of Lent should look carefully at the integrity of their lives and get rid in this holy season of any thoughtless compromises which may have crept in at other times. (From para. 1 of Ch. 49 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Where are the gaps?  At what points in my life is there a lack of connectivity between who I am and what I do?  What are the thoughtless compromises in which ego takes place over spirit, distraction takes place over attention, self takes place over others?

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