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...
