Monday, September 15, 2008

Community is key

Community is essential to Benedictine life. At Holy Wisdom Monastery, we put an emphasis on creating community in everything we do. Creating community informs the way we share Benedictine spirituality with others. It leads how we have structured our oblate community and the way we have invited members of Sunday Assembly to take responsibility for its life together. In community, we connect, listen and obey one another, we consider what is better for the other rather than better for oneself, "supporting with the greatest patience one another's weaknesses of body or behavior, and earnestly competing in obedience to one another." (RB 72:5-6)