The World Community is ecumenical and the Oblate community specially reflects this. However, the WCCM as a whole acknowledges a special relationship to the Benedictine tradition which was the first in the western Church to form a stable form of …
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Raymond Lamb, our inspirational speaker for December 7 Benedict’s Well, speaks to us about “The Poetry of Lectio Divina”. The theme stirs romantic images for me as if my soul, listening deeply to the gentle repetitions of the Word, is not …
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Handling the stuff of life…
Chapter 32: The Tools and Goods of the Monasteryby Andrew The goods of …
Obedience
As oblates, obedience is one of our precepts or vows along with stability and conversion.
It is very important in time of crisis that obedience is either gently or strongly enforced, and in daily life, in every kind of society, it is necessary that enforcement or punishment is in accord with the degree of the offense. All civilised societies recognise that people are sinful at times and this has to be dealt with.
Via Vitae, Way of Life
Via Vitae Special Edition
January 2018