Day Forty-Four – Watchwords

Question: These conversations about the Rule reveal a deep love and respect among the Brothers for its wisdom, a regard similar to a love of the Scriptures or the Book of Common Prayer.  Do you have particular words or phrases or sentences to which you return again and again, like watchwords?

Br. Kevin Hackett: I certainly do.  When I am at my lowest (and when I’m at my best, actually), I take great solace in that part from the very last chapter (49) where we say, “Our hope lies not in what we have done for God, but in what God has done for us.”  That says it all.  That’s the Good News in small.  It does not relieve me—or anyone else—of full responsibility for my/their part in demands of discipleship, but it does make clear the priority of grace.