Community and Fellowship: Benedict on Stability: Staying Put
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Benedict of Nursia: Benedict on Stability: Staying Put
This is a spiritual discipline on stability and commitment, drawing on Ruth 1:16, Hebrews 10:24-25 and Ephesians 4:2-3.
Benedict of Nursia made stability -- the commitment to remain in one community -- one of the three vows every Benedictine monk takes (alongside obedience and conversion of life). He wrote against the "gyrovagues" -- monks who wandered from monastery to monastery, never settling, always looking for a better situation. Benedict saw this instability as a spiritual disease. Stability does not mean rigidity.…
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