Oblate
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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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Enlarge the heart. It almost seems like a dangerous medical request to enlarge one’s heart would bring physical death. Perhaps that’s the point from a spiritual perspective. We enlarge our hearts to die to ourselves and welcome room to love God in a new way.On this first anniversary of my oblation, I reread the Holy
Enlarge my heart 