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X-WR-CALDESC:Let us get up then\, at long last\, for the scriptures rous
e us when they say: 'It is high time for us to arise from sleep (Rom 13:11
).' Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God\, and our ears t
o the voice from the heavens that every day calls out this charge: 'If you
hear God's voice today\, do not harden your hearts (Ps 95:8).' And again:
'You that have ears to hear\, listen to what the Spirit says to the churc
hes (Rv 2:7).' And what does the Spirit say? 'Come and listen to me\; I wi
ll teach you to reverence God (Ps 34:12).' Run while you have the light of
life\, that the darkness of death may not overtake you (Jn 12:35).'\n
\nThe paragraph is an insistent one\, full of intensity\, full of urgency.
We put off so much in life--visiting relatives\, writing letters\, going
back to school\, finding a new job. But one thing stays with us always\, p
resent whether pursued or not\, and that is the call to the center of ours
elves where the God we are seeking is seeking us. Benedict says\, Listen t
oday. Start now. Begin immediately to direct your life to that small\, cle
ar voice within.\n\nIn this paragraph Benedict makes his first of the mult
iple allusions to scripture which emerge in the Rule time and time again t
o the point that a reader gets the idea that the Rule is simply a chain of
scriptural quotations. The particular passages cited are important\, of c
ourse\, and give emphasis to the point of the excerpt. In these first refe
rences\, for instance\, Benedict reminds us that life is short\, that we d
on't have time to waste time\, that some things are significant in life an
d some things are not. We all have to ask ourselves what time it is in our
own lives. We each have to begin to consider the eternal weight of what w
e are spending life doing. We have to start someday to wonder if we have s
pent our lives on gold or dross.\n\nBut as important as the content of the
scriptural quotations themselves is the very message of their presence: T
he life laid out in this Rule is a life based on the Gospel of Jesus Chris
t. It is not the prescriptions of a private guru. It is an immersion in th
e Gospel life so intense that we never forget for a moment what we are rea
lly about. We don't just stumble through life from one pious exercise to a
nother\, hoping that in the end everything will be all right. We don't sur
feit on this life\, even the spiritual systems of it\, and forget the life
to come. No\, we run toward the light\, not with our hair shirts in hand
but with the scriptures in hand\, responsible to the presence of God in ev
ery moment and sure that life is only beginning when it ends.
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DESCRIPTION:Let us get up then\, at long last\, for the scriptures rouse
us when they say: 'It is high time for us to arise from sleep (Rom 13:11)
.' Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God\, and our ears to
the voice from the heavens that every day calls out this charge: 'If you
hear God's voice today\, do not harden your hearts (Ps 95:8).' And again:
'You that have ears to hear\, listen to what the Spirit says to the church
es (Rv 2:7).' And what does the Spirit say? 'Come and listen to me\; I wil
l teach you to reverence God (Ps 34:12).' Run while you have the light of
life\, that the darkness of death may not overtake you (Jn 12:35).'\n
\nThe paragraph is an insistent one\, full of intensity\, full of urgency.
We put off so much in life--visiting relatives\, writing letters\, going
back to school\, finding a new job. But one thing stays with us always\, p
resent whether pursued or not\, and that is the call to the center of ours
elves where the God we are seeking is seeking us. Benedict says\, Listen t
oday. Start now. Begin immediately to direct your life to that small\, cle
ar voice within.\n\nIn this paragraph Benedict makes his first of the mult
iple allusions to scripture which emerge in the Rule time and time again t
o the point that a reader gets the idea that the Rule is simply a chain of
scriptural quotations. The particular passages cited are important\, of c
ourse\, and give emphasis to the point of the excerpt. In these first refe
rences\, for instance\, Benedict reminds us that life is short\, that we d
on't have time to waste time\, that some things are significant in life an
d some things are not. We all have to ask ourselves what time it is in our
own lives. We each have to begin to consider the eternal weight of what w
e are spending life doing. We have to start someday to wonder if we have s
pent our lives on gold or dross.\n\nBut as important as the content of the
scriptural quotations themselves is the very message of their presence: T
he life laid out in this Rule is a life based on the Gospel of Jesus Chris
t. It is not the prescriptions of a private guru. It is an immersion in th
e Gospel life so intense that we never forget for a moment what we are rea
lly about. We don't just stumble through life from one pious exercise to a
nother\, hoping that in the end everything will be all right. We don't sur
feit on this life\, even the spiritual systems of it\, and forget the life
to come. No\, we run toward the light\, not with our hair shirts in hand
but with the scriptures in hand\, responsible to the presence of God in ev
ery moment and sure that life is only beginning when it ends.
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