The Rule of St. Benedict #3

Qualities of the Abbot - Ch. 2

My third contribution to Mount Marty University’s Benedictine Thought and Action Blog was posted on January 1st. Here are links to the first and second installments. This piece, written from the perspective of someone who has never read Benedict’s Rule for monks, is on chapter three — “Qualities of the Abbot.”

An excerpt:

Being an abbot means being among the monks, showing them how to live, even as he teaches them from above. It is incarnational. Indeed, the abbot and the monk are in the same world and in the same monastery. They pursue the same way of life. They struggle together.

You can read the entire piece by clicking here.