Chapter 59
The Rule of Benedict April 13
Putting the issue of children offered to God in the monastery aside, this chapter takes seriously Jesus' words about the difficulty of participating fully in God's household when one's human household is filled with wealth. As long as there is a plan B waiting in the wings for a day when things get tough, one will be unable to undergo the transformation that Benedict intends. Self-sufficiency and a Benedictine way of life are incompatible.
Let us consider what in our lives keeps us from experiencing, in Sr. Joan's words, "the smelting effects of a communal spirituality." What would it take to lay those things aside?
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