Oblates

A Contemporary Spiritual Life-Style

Oblates

A Contemporary Spiritual Lifestyle
Meditation creates community. Meditators who experience personal transformation through a daily practice can seek to express and support this in ways suitable to their own needs. The Oblate Path is one of these.

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Community in the Rule of Benedict


Hilda Frost OSB

For Benedict, everything takes place within the context of community. Whether he is talking about prayer, relationships, work, or whatever it may be, the disciple is reminded that he or she is part of a community. This is particularly so in the case of Benedictine Oblates of the World Community for Christian Meditation. Benedict makes […]

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“The essential message of Christianity is that God is present in the depths of each human being. That is why we must learn humility.
That is why we must learn silence; because we must enter those depths of our self to encounter the otherness of God and in that encounter, to discover our essential self in union with God.” John Main, OSB, The Heart of Creation.