Saturday, August 22, 2015

Chapter 66: The porter or portress of the monastery


At the entrance to the monastery there should be a wise senior who is too mature in stability to think of wandering about and who can deal with enquiries and give whatever help is required. (From para. 1 of Ch. 66 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

For me, an inner emotional stability is a fruit of meditation -- or, at least, I'm coming closer in my experience of it.  How do I react to difficult people or situations? -- what time do I waste in embellishing personal dramas? -- or, do I place my impulse to repeat an unhealthy pattern at the feet of Christ?

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