"One of the speakers at the Second World Congress of (Benedictine) Oblates in Rome last month was Mother Maire Hickey, OSB. She was the Abbess of Dinklage in Germany and is now the administrator of Kylemore Abbey in Ireland... (she) ... .'" From Brother Benet Tvedten, OSB in his November 2009 Letter to Oblates of Blue Cloud Abbey , Marvin, SD.

... in the Church and some of the new religious orders doing the hard work of being in the marketplace. I for one, can't help remember the Pope's address to the Benedictine Oblates of St Frances of Rome where he praised them for keeping a religious life with a particular focus of being in the center of the city as a witness to Christ while helping the ...

... s community are Scripture, the Rule of Saint Benedict, the Benedictine Breviary, and Methodist texts such as the United Methodist ... John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. It also says they accept oblates and, in that relationship,The community is comprised of women and men, ... Saint Brigid of Kildare Monastery. It is a Methodist-Benedictine residential monastery for women in Collegeville, Minnesota.& ...

... , to become a means of union with God. This ancient practice has been kept alive in the Christian monastic tradition, and is one of the precious treasures of Benedictine monastics and oblates. Together with the Liturgy and daily manual labor, time set aside in a special way for lectio divina enables us to discover in our daily life an ...