body-praying rb72, the good zeal of monks
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BMPS: RB72A Blessed Movements Prayer Session for
Chapter 72 (The Good Zeal of Monks) of the Rule of St Benedict’s
BMPS is Blessed Movements Prayer Session*.
It is a sequence of slow meditative movements and gestures that more or less relate to the spoken prayer. BMPS enables the pray-er to feel, to sense, the essence of prayer, which is, union with God. It is a
holistic prayer session which involves everything you’ve got:your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual selves.
Prayer, therefore, is defined here as being with the Divine,
in body, heart, and soul.
*designed and illustrated by
Roy DeLeon, Oblate of St Benedict
Copyright 2012
O most Holy One,
Acknowledging the Divine Presence
Just as there is a wicked zeal of bitterness, which separates us from Thee
and leads to hell,
Fighting fists
Pushing God/Love away
hell
so there is a good zeal, which separates us from evil
and leads to Thee and everlasting life.
Palms on heart
…pushing evil away
…pointing to God within
Oh Joy!
Grant us, then, the good zeal which we must foster with fervent love:
Palms on heart
Teach each of us to try to be the first to show respect
to the other (Rom 12:10),
Palms on heart
Offering the heart to the other
supporting one another's weaknesses of body or behavior, with the greatest patience
Palms on heart
‘of body’
‘or behavior’
Patience of the suffering Jesus
and earnestly competing in obedience to one another.
Palms on belly
Palms facing forward ready to serve
Help us not to pursue what we judge better for ourselves,
Palms on heart
…pushing away selfishness
…bringing hands back to heart
but instead, what we judge better for someone else.
Palms on heart
…offering goodness to the other
To our fellow oblates, let us show pure love of brothers and sisters;
Step to right, palms on heart
…offering pure love
To you, O God, loving respect and deep obedience;
Looking up, palms on heart
Bow down in reverence
To our abbot/director, genuine and humble love.
Step to left, palms on heart
Offering genuine and humble love
Let us prefer nothing whatever to your Son, Jesus Christ,
Sense Jesus in you and around you
and bring us all together to everlasting life.
Palms on the belly
…then to the heart
…Oh joy!
Amen.
Deo Gratias