Welcome to the Ecumenical Benedictine Oblate.

You are welcome here as Christ.
I hope we will create a meeting space here, gathering resources that will:
--enrich our lives,
--build our sense of Benedictine community,
--deepen our spiritual journeys, and
--stimulate meaningful conversation.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Conversation about Oblate Community

This last week my fellow Oblates amazed and encouraged me with a flurry of e-mails, several comments here, and some poll responses.  You Oblates have been generous, positive, honest, so open, and deeply thoughtful.  I value your insights and experience about building Ecumenical Benedictine Oblate community.  Your personal interests and preferences give worthwhile perspective.  You also offered invaluable knowledge about the technical and learning-style sides of this experiment. 

Thank You!!! 

There will be lots more follow-up work to do on all those comments and suggestions.

For today I begin here with  'a first tickler question.' This is for any and all who want to comment. 
 "What elements do you think are necessary to positive Ecumenical Benedictine community?"
Posted by Deanne, Obl. S.B. at 11:00 AM
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2 comments:

  1. Deanne, Obl. S.B.April 26, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    I'll start the ball rolling. My first two necessary elements are: 1- We speak to each other. 2) We listen to each other.

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  2. emmausroadtravelerMay 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM

    Deanne, glad to have found this blog....my first response is for a Benedictine community to be ecumenical it needs to be open to diversity in all aspects of it's life together

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Benedictine Book List:

  • -Wisdom Distilled from the Daily, by Joan Chittister
  • -The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages, by Joan Chittister
  • -The Monastic Journey, by Thomas Merton
  • -The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully, By Joan Chittister
  • -The Cloister Walk, by Kathleen Norris
  • -St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living, by Jane Tomaine
  • -Radical Hospitality: Benedict's way of love, by Daniel Homan, OSB & Lonni Collins Pratt
  • -Dakota, by Kathleen Norris
  • -Benedictine Daily Prayer: A Short Breviary, Compiled and Edited by Maxwell T. Johnson, Oblate of St. John's Abbey, and the Monks of St. John's Abbey
  • -Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, by Kathleen Norris
  • -A Life-giving Way, by Esther de Waal