October 12

Chapter 9

The Rule of Benedict October 12

Over the next couple of weeks the Rule will lay out a precise structure for community prayer.  The details of this structure, although broadly influential in shaping Christian worship in the West over the last 1500 years, are less important for us than the overall structure itself.  As we've all heard before, our prayers shape our beliefs, or, put a bit differently, our prayers order our inner life.  It takes years and years of faithful practice, but we will find that when our thoughts and feelings are ordered, we are more able to listen, to hear, and to act in harmony with the Divine Will.