For the monk, even repentance is seen in terms of hospitality.

For one modern Benedictine, repentance means “not primarily…a sense of regret, but a renunciation of narrow and sectarian human views that are not large enough for God's mystery.” It means recognizing that we have not always seen grace where it exists in the world, and agreeing “to turn away from a stubborn and obdurate position that cannot accept what is new and different and therefore cannot entertain God's mysterious ways.” The word “entertain” is used advisedly here, as the monk goes on to speak of hospitality: “The classic sign of our acceptance of God's mystery is welcoming and making room” for the stranger, the other, the surprising, the unlooked-for and unwanted. It means learning to read the world better, that we may better know our place in it.