How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
2006·119 pages
A practical guide explaining how laypeople can apply Benedictine monastic principles like prayer, stability, and hospitality while living and working in the secular world.
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A practical guide explaining how laypeople can apply Benedictine monastic principles like prayer, stability, and hospitality while living and working in the secular world.
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Dorothy Day was an oblate while she lived in the heart of New York City. So was the French poet, Paul Claudel. Kathleen Norris is an oblate, and so was Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman in Europe to earn a Ph.D. What connects them all? There are at least ten thousand oblates in the United States today (no one knows for sure how many), and each of them is connected in meaningful ways to a monastery or abbey. Most oblates are ordinary lay people from various Christian traditions. Th...
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