March 27

Chapter 47

The Rule of Benedict March 27

I have observed, over the course of these last months, that the primary work we have been called to thus far as vowed members of our order is the work of establishing our personal practices of daily prayer.  In the most natural of ways, this central element of Benedict's Rule, the Work of God, has replaced my focus on our roles as that task towards which our efforts should be applied.  I sense that this has been the kind work of the Spirit in our midst, and, as with all that she does in the hearts of the willing, it has borne good fruit.

Let us give thanks today to God, who has seen to the ringing of the bell and has given us the grace to respond in obedience.