February 19

Chapter 16

The Rule of Benedict February 19

I wonder how best our order can honor the high value Father Benedict places on prayer that is dispersed throughout each day.  Many monastic orders now pray four times daily, including The Order of Holy Cross, the Episcopal Benedictines with whom Gil is an associate.

In the near future, I would like for us to discern together how, as an order, we can support a robust practice of prayer in our daily lives.  It will look very different than it does in a monastery, surely, but I can imagine us discovering many creative ways to call the attention of our hearts away from the temporal to the Eternal in the course of each day.