‘Meditation is the journey to the centre – to one’s own centre and the Centre which is God. Christian meditation is the path into this centre through the heart and mind of Christ by a way that gives priority to silence, simplicity and stillness in a spirit of love and service. Becoming an oblate in the WCCM is an expression of all this and a way to realise it. It is a beautiful and challenging way to raise the human journey into transformation in the love of Christ and the wisdom of Benedict, one of his great disciples.’ Father Laurence Freeman