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A friend visited this blog the other day and asked about being a Benedictine Oblate. To make oblation is to offer your total life as a gift to God. Oblation strengthens baptismal commitment and grafts you to a particular benedictine monastery, embracing its long standing benedictine values of work and prayer. An oblate makes a…
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The Cross is for imitation, not decoration. I grew up seeing rosaries dangled on the rearview mirrors of many cars. They are often seen as a good luck charm driving on freeways. Touch briefly, with a Sign of the Cross to follow. The rosary’s beads were never touched, passing through the hand, and the color…
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When I had the opportunity to lead one of my first retreats as a young teenager, there was a passage that spoke to my heart: “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Cor 1:18). You have…
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Each month, I reflect on a small portion of the Rule of Saint Benedict. May the Rule shape our hearts in following Jesus. Prologue Verses 3-7 This message of mine is for you, then, if you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble…
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Everything is a matter of the heart. In Jesus’ world, the heart is where the soul lives, the source of emotion. In the Gospel, Jesus says Ephphatha to open the ear of the deaf man. Leading up to this, we hear the account with detail, “He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his…
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