What will be your practice?
Work is not what defines the Benedictine-it is the single minded search for God that gives their monastic life meaning. The monastic does not exist for work. Creative and productive work are simply the means to enhance the garden and sustain us while we grow into God. We are called to cultivate growth-not hope it happens by chance.
As our days draw to a close, there has to be something left in life that makes us human and makes us happy, or life may well have been in vain. That something, Benedictine spirituality teaches us, is a mind and heart full of a sense of meaning and an instinct for God.
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