Humility....

We've now begun one of the most important chapters in the Rule of Benedict.  I believe Sr Joan is correct when she says...

If the modern age has lost anything that needs to be rediscovered, if the Western world has denied anything that needs to be owned, if individuals have rejected anything that needs to be professed again, if the preservation of the globe in the twenty-first century requires anything of the past at all, it may well be the commitment of the Rule of Benedict to humility.

Humility allows us to form a proper sense of self in a universe of wonders. Humility is the basis for right relationships in life and necessary if we truly want to grow in the Spirit of God.  As Sr Joan points out...

...being sinless is not enough.  [We are called to be] steeped in the mind of God.  [We must] become aware that the God we seek is aware of us.

God is within us to be realized...it is simply a matter of opening our eyes to the light that drives out the darkness within us.  

 It is a matter of gaining the God within, the love of Whom impels us to good.