The Wisdom of Saint Benedict

Fr Martin McGee OSB

The spirituality of the Rule of St Benedict is a spirituality of the everyday. For St Benedict small things are very important because it is through the small things that we express respect and love for others; all the more because the greatest part of our existence is made up of these small gestures which express our deepest identity.

St Benedict wishes us to pay close attention to the everyday; he is not in the least interested in the spectacular or the sensational. It is the ordinariness of our daily encounters which interests him, those little nothings of daily life which give praise to God and safeguard love.

Fr Christophe, a monk of Tibhirine, describes it thus in one of his little poems:

One must risk everything

in the little nothings

of every day.

All of this everyday life is the arena where our conversion to Christ and the Christian way of life is played out.

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