Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 3-4)


They should not be trouble-makers nor given to excessive anxiety nor should they be too demanding and obstinate, nor yet interfering and inclined to suspicion so as never to be at rest. (From para. 4 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

My job is not to be busy about controlling people or events, but to rest in the Lord. Here I discover the re-sourcefulness that springs from my source.

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