Category: Oblates

Letter to a Novice Oblate (III)

6 February 2012

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)

31 January 2012

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)

25 January 2012

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

15 January 2012

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...

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