We must credit the good we do to the hidden foundation of good, and be grateful to serve as its medium.

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.

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.

We thrive when a specific daily schedule is established. The day should be divided so that there is time for meditation or prayer, time for meals and relationships, time for learning, time for labor, and time for rest.

Routine is important, but too much of it dulls. On days of special importance, our routine should be varied, but within limits, always maintaining the spirit of the daily reaffirmation of the way.

These are the opportunities for right relationship: To form a loving image of our God, and To love our true God, with all our hearts, with all our minds, and with all our strength, and To love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves.

We should modify our prayers and meditations with the seasons, so that from season to season there is change, but from year to year there is repetition.

To be satisfied in life We must transcend the desire for satisfaction. We must cast off our own appetites. We must free ourselves from our own self-centeredness. In order to accomplish this, we must practice obedience.

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