Feast of the Archangels
What Is a Benedictine Oblate?
Before the novitiate began, I had to answer this question for myself — and for everyone who asked.
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A Benedictine Oblate Novice Journal
Oblate In A Year
Ora et Labora — a year of becoming
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"Listen carefully, my child, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart." — Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue
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Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
The First Step: Saying Yes to the Oblate Life
here is a particular kind of silence that greets you when you first walk through the doors of a monastery — not the silence of emptiness, but of fullness. Something is happening here, quietly and without announcement, and you find yourself wanting to stay inside it. That is where this year begins: with a yes spoken softly, almost to myself, in the presence of the community.
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Feast of St. Matthew
Finding the Monastery
The road to oblation rarely runs straight. Mine wound through years of restlessness before arriving here.
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Thursday of the Twenty-third Week
The Rule of St. Benedict: A First Reading
Seventy-three short chapters. A document written fifteen centuries ago. And somehow, it reads like a letter addressed to you.
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