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,...
Sufficit tibi gratia mea
Sexagesima Sunday 12 February 2012 The Introit Today’s Mass opens with a great cry asking God to wake up. The prayer is one of a...
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...