Flexibility: RB 2. 23–32
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JottingsBenedict's teaching on the abbot yesterday and today emphasizes the need to adapt to many different temperaments. Verse 30 is the crux: it is because the abbot derives his name and role from God, Abba, that he is required to have such care and concern for the individual. Respect for the other is an important theme in the Rule. Here it is worked out in the relations between monastic superior and community member. Something here for corporate Britain perhaps?