7 October
Chapter 7:56-58
Regla de Sant Benet
Keeping Silent to Know How to Speak. Silence should not be the result of an external imposition, nor an bitter or indifferent void, but a space of freedom and peace that springs from love. Measuring our words and avoiding idle talk protects us from superficiality and impulsiveness, while teaching us to truly listen. This positive silence does not conflict with joy or with fraternal conversation during recreation, but rather fosters an inner depth so that, when we speak, we do so from the richness of prayer and to bring a word of life to others.
56 The ninth step of humility is reached when a monk refrains his tongue from speaking and, keeping silence, does not speak until he is asked, 57 for Scripture teaches that "in much speaking you will not escape sin," 58 and that "the talkative man shall not prosper upon the earth."
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