St. Benedict Rules had influenced our life implicitly by the virtues of obedience, respect and leadership that I could bestow to our parents while they are still alive and to dedicate courteousness in them until the day they die and to our families as well and the people in our environment. Society and community were influenced by being obedient to a public leader and for a member to be aware of his responsibilities to his fellow people. Society on the other hand should form a government that is worth to be emulated by its people by setting good example for them to gain obedience from its people. Family has a major role to play in the development of every Christian to attain a good relationship with the Lord. I’ve learned how the power of having a good relationship with God through prayers and how our faith and beliefs can mold us into a better human being.
St. Benedict influences the corporate world by teaching the virtues of respect and love for work. Included among St. Benedict’s teachings are the ways on how an employee should be treated at work. St. Benedict also points out how seniority and rank in the company should be dealt with, how to motivate employees and how to urge them to give their best in their work. St. Benedict also implies that work should be treated as love made visible-- it as if our beloved would be the one to use the product we were producing. He connotes that if a person doesn’t love his work it is better for him to sit outside of the temple and ask for alms for those people who enjoy and love their work.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics in St. Benedict are his deep and wide human feeling and hismoderation. The former reveals itself in the many anecdotes recorded by St. Gregory. We see it inhis sympathy and care for the simplest of his monks; his hastening to the help of the poor Goth whohad lot his bill-hook; spending the hours of the night in prayer on the mountain to save his monks thelabour of carrying water, and to remove from their lives a "just cause of grumbling"; staying three days in a monastery to help to induce one of the monks to "remain quietly at his prayers as the other monks did", instead of going forth from the chapel and wandering about "busying himself worldly and transitory things".
St. Benedict influences the corporate world by teaching the virtues of respect and love for work. Included among St. Benedict’s teachings are the ways on how an employee should be treated at work. St. Benedict also points out how seniority and rank in the company should be dealt with, how to motivate employees and how to urge them to give their best in their work. St. Benedict also implies that work should be treated as love made visible-- it as if our beloved would be the one to use the product we were producing. He connotes that if a person doesn’t love his work it is better for him to sit outside of the temple and ask for alms for those people who enjoy and love their work.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics in St. Benedict are his deep and wide human feeling and hismoderation. The former reveals itself in the many anecdotes recorded by St. Gregory. We see it inhis sympathy and care for the simplest of his monks; his hastening to the help of the poor Goth whohad lot his bill-hook; spending the hours of the night in prayer on the mountain to save his monks thelabour of carrying water, and to remove from their lives a "just cause of grumbling"; staying three days in a monastery to help to induce one of the monks to "remain quietly at his prayers as the other monks did", instead of going forth from the chapel and wandering about "busying himself worldly and transitory things".
St. Benedict originated a form of government which is deserving of study. It is contained inchapters 2, 3, 31, 64, 65 of the Rule and in certain pregnant phrases scattered through otherchapters. As with the Rule itself, so also his scheme of government is intended not for an order butfor a single community. He presupposes that the community have bound themselves, by their promise of stability, to spend their lives together under the Rule. The superior is then elected by a free and universal suffrage.
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