Chapter 59 (on the offering of the children of the rich and the poor to the monastery) offers us a unique insight into monastic life and monastic profession.
Monastic life is to be a continual act of offering oneself to God and to the community daily. It is being present in the daily moments to our sisters, our coworkers, our neighbors, our family in whatever situation they might find themselves. It is a daily offering to God of our joys, sorrows and all experiences of that day.
It reminds me of the daily offering prayers that we learned in school. We recited them at the beginning of the day at school to remind us to unite our daily actions to God and to ask the intercession of Mary and the saints to see us through the day.
How am I uniting my life today to God and the saints and to the multitude of monastic women that went before us?
Sr. Catherine
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