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Like any other community,
a monastery embraces a wide range of people, ages,
experience, abilities and interests. These are strengths
that continually support and enrich the fellowship
of our common life. It is a very human group of men
in which our limitations and weakness are also shared.
This is something that St Benedict sees as a sacrament
of the love of God. He encourages us to "labour
with chaste love at the charity of the brotherhood",
bearing each other's burdens and using our gifts,
not for ourselves but for the sake of another. A
monk will in this way imitate the love of Christ
to whom nothing is preferred.
We do not go to God as
individuals but as people God has called and made
his own in Christ. |
