Peace, Ahead of Trials
Peace is the fruit of that order in which a hierarchy of values is established, everyone has their place, the passions are controlled and things themselves are respected. For a young person of our era, that risks looking like a pretty boring world, because people often prefer caprice to structure, spontaneity to order, a passionate life to calmness of soul… But for anyone who wishes to go forward into the adventure of man with God, it is necessary to affirm their nature, to pacify it and to set it in order. To the novice turning up at the monastery, St Benedict proposes the quest for God and pursuing this by following Christ – that is the chief object of our life. That is why he tries to calm the secondary combats within us, so as to conserve our energy for his service by bringing about a setting of order and peace. Order in Things To start with, peace is the fruit of order established in things, order in the things we use. The goods and resources
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