Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Chapter 31: The qualities required by the cellarer (paragraph 1)


All the utensils of the monastery and in fact everything that belongs to the monastery should be cared for as though they were the sacred vessels of the altar. (From para. 1 of Ch. 31 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

St. Benedict is telling me that even mundane things can be sacred vessels -- that everything mediates the love of God.  To see this way I need the grace of selfless attention, melting into awe and gratitude.

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