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Benedictine Spin on Peter & Paul Day
As on all Solemnities we have a Community Homily in Chapter given by one of the monks in turn. This morning it fell to Fr. Hugh to preach on Ss. Peter and Paul.
Having paid all honours to these Pillars of the Church he rounded off with a good Benedictine spin on the celebration.
"St. Benedict has a Chapter on Silence. If he were writing his Rule today would he be giving us a Chapter on dialogue? How discussions should be chaired, how to put over one's point of view, how to listen and react to those who think differently to ourselves? And also how to reach a conclusion? Should the principles of dialogue be taught in the Novitiate? No doubt one can find the answer to some of these questions dispersed throughout the Rule, especially in Chapter 3 on "Calling of the Brethren to Council".
Peter and Paul needed each other. The one pastorally concerned with the Jews, Paul with the Gentiles. Two different types but both utterly devoted to the same Lord.
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