St. Brigid
Chapter 7 pt. 8
The Rule of Benedict February 1
The fourth step of humility reminds us that spiritual formation, not utopian community, is the end, or goal, of Benedict's Rule. Community is a messy organism that can fail at every possible level, but the monastic is not thereby excused from her commitment to remain engaged and malleable to the work of the Spirit through community.
It is so freeing to remember that community will be messy and we will hurt each other, and we will also have lovely successes wherein we lift each other up, and the point is not perfection but formation.
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