Submission and the Rule of Benedict

Submission brings us into the kingdom, allows us to be recreated as new creatures in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), bestows on us a new identity that is neither male nor female (Gal. 3:28), yet affirms us truly as men and women, and gives God permission to be at work in us for his own good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). After our initial salvation, Submission is the quality which allows God to Sanctify us, to go on saving and healing us until we become conformed to the image of His Son. To Submit is to Obey, (literally to "listen toward") and Listening is what the Rule of Benedict seems to foster par excellence.