All the Hard and Rugged Ways
This is the first part of the conference I gave yesterday, on Sexagesima Sunday, at the clothing of nine Novice Oblates in the Benedictine scapular....
Newly Received Oblate Novices
Sexagesima Sunday, 12 January 2012 Newly received Novice Oblates are (left to right): Katie Kane, received as Sister Columba (Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion); Alexander Carroll,...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (VI)
On this day before the feast of Saint Scholastica, I thought it appropriate to post this detail of an altarpiece painting of Saint Scholastica in...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (V)
My very dear Novice Oblate, The Rule Is Supple I am taking a few moments out of a very busy day to write something about...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (IV)
This fresco in Monte Oliveto Maggiore depicts a youthful Saint Benedict receiving the monastic habit from the monk Romanus. My very dear Novice Oblate, Questions...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (III)
Here, in a fresco at Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi depicts Saint Benedict dining with his monks. I am fond of this particular fresco...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (II)
My dear daughter in Christ, Praying at Home Recently, you asked me how you, as wife and mother, with children to look after from morning...
Letter to a Novice Oblate (I)
This is the first of a series of letters that I will be writing to the Oblates of the Monastery of Our Lady of the...
Reception of Oblate Novices
Today, on the Second Sunday after Epiphany, and the feast of Saints Maurus and Placid, I received three men and four women into the year...