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Oblate Offerings: October 2009
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Friday, October 30, 2009. A lot of dynamics come to bear on the Protestant soul that is drawn to Catholic Christianity. The dynamics involve both interior and exterior dimensions. This multi-dimensional journey can indeed be quite a crisis of faith, not only for the soul on the journey but also for the host of spectators viewing from up close and far away. The implicit life-parallels contained in this parable are striking. On my part...
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Oblate Offerings: April 2009
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Thursday, April 30, 2009. It’s an awful long way to the monastery from where I live. A solid half day’s drive each way. It’s a distance that prohibits frequent visits for me. St Lawrence is a beautiful and thriving Catholic church. Well over 1200 families. Daily weekday morning and evening Masses. Three Masses on Sunday. A multitude of societies, programs, and activities. There is also a group of Secular Francisca...There are now aro...
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Oblate Offerings: May 2009
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Friday, May 29, 2009. It’s hard to imagine, particularly in this modern age, monastic communities that resembled small cities. There were no lords and ladies here. No people living lifestyles of glamorous self-exaltation and self-absorption. There were only men and women spending their entire lives, as obedient living sacrifices, praying the Psalms with their hearts and lips, working with their hands, disciplining their thoug...Their...
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Oblate Offerings: June 2010
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. No I'm not AWOL or fallen into a deep hole. I'm simply working on another very personal project that involves a great deal of time and personal energy. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Waking From An Induced Coma. It is, however, in discovering and uncovering the long and very interesting American history of my mother’s paternal and maternal lines that I find my attention predominately arrested. It is a his...The awa...
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Oblate Offerings: February 2011
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Friday, February 4, 2011. I hardly think any of us really know where we are going, where we will find ourselves at points future, or where we will eventually wind down and return to the earth from which we were made. This is especially true for wanderers, for souls that see life as more of a journey, for folks like us whose life's circumstances have groomed for the meandering pathways. God bless you in your journey . We bid you peace,.
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Oblate Offerings: April 2010
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Thursday, April 29, 2010. Same God, Same Hymns. 630,000 family men, young men, and boys lost their lives in combat. The figure is much higher if you count the number that died from disease and complications from war wounds. Countless homes and buildings were pilfered, razed, and burned leaving large populations of citizenry destitute and homeless. The historical scenario reminds me a lot of the heated conflicts of issues and opinions...
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Oblate Offerings: August 2010
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Sunday, August 1, 2010. Melding Matters - Concluding Post. I think the one word that best describes the life I’ve lived is one that has oft been used to describe the hard life of a farmer scratching out a subsistence living on a poor spot of land. Mine has always been a hardscrabble way of life, of making do and getting by, of having, thanks be to God, just enough with a little left over. These are greatly challenging and integrally ...
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Oblate Offerings: July 2010
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Sunday, July 18, 2010. One afternoon last week the combination of temperature and humidity gave us a heat index of 109 degrees. It’s been hot all summer on the South Coast with the heat index topping out most days above 100. A body just doesn’t have much get-up-and-go when the heat and humidity is this high. I suppose it is part of the cost we pay for the mild winters we enjoy. The first is that very few people living in the world to...
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Oblate Offerings: June 2009
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Saturday, June 27, 2009. It is not my intention or ambition to be an apologist for the Catholic-Christian faith. First of all, I do not consider myself nearly educated enough to take on such a daunting task. In close second place is the conclusion that I no longer thrive on disagreement and argumentation. The same realization, I think, is true regarding Oblation as a lay-member of the Order of St. Benedict. It is my observation that ...
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Oblate Offerings: May 2010
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Integrating Benedictine Spirituality Into Life In The Modern Day World. Sunday, May 23, 2010. I don’t need a meteorologist to tell me that it’s gotten hot and humid. All I have to do is walk outside. Those pleasant months of nice spring weather are behind us. Now it’s just sub-tropical heat and humidity until things start cooling down. It will seem like a long time before the cooler autumn breezes begin making their appearance in October. I do know that without a living and relational vital awareness of ...