Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
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Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
if we are to become strong enough to emancipate ourselves from the tyranny of our own cravings, we must train our constitutions by the continuous exercise of obedience to other persons and to the dictates of our circumstances.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
At all times let us recall that every thing we use in this life was here before us and will be here after we are gone. This world and everything in it is on loan, entrusted to our care for our time.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
Putting ourselves at the center of existence isolates us. We are relational, dependent creatures, and we are not the purpose of the cosmos.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
We should share in labor and take turns in service. As a task is handed from one to another, approval and thanks should also be passed from one to another, so that good will and blessings are distributed with the work.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
Rule may not be feasible for us, undergirding those specifics are principles that we can use. For example, we can recognize the need for a basic daily pattern that incorporates time not only for work, but also for friendship, the growth of the mind, and for meditation. We can take control of our workdays and build into them time to serve other valu
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We must always be prepared to cast aside our own agendas whenever we have the opportunity to be of service to another. And when we act for another’s interests we must do so cheerfully, without thought of recognition or reward.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
He could not remember the exact title, but he recalled the subject and the author’s name — Esther de Waal. Later I learned that the title was Living With Contradiction: Reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict.
John McQuiston II • Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him: “Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” Jesus replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourse
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Jesus answered “The kingdom of God is not found through observation, neither is it found by looking here or looking there, for the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:20-22).