Benedictine Oblate #2

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OK, a bit of help please.

I am looking for a readable, good book (novel, maybe?) on St Benedict or another Benedictine. I have read de Wohl’s. Decent.

Suggestions?🙂
 
Luigi_Daniele said:
OK, a bit of help please.

I am looking for a readable, good book (novel, maybe?) on St Benedict or another Benedictine. I have read de Wohl’s. Decent.

Suggestions?🙂
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Is there a book on Benedictine saints? Sorry, I haven’t looked to much into that sort of thing…
 
Ebay has sold numerous St. Benedict medals from the 18th and 19th c. in the past. Many times costing on the lower end $20, higher end, $50 each.

Some of you may prefer the historical medals. The ones today date from the end of the 19th c. and are I think are in the historical revisionist spirit, rather than received tradition spirit, that has brought many of the oddities of our era into being.
 
If you were a monk or nun before the 12th c. you were usually a benedictine. A full list of benedictine saints would be too long. However there is this:

A Benedictine Martyrology: being a revision of Rev. Peter Lechner’s Ausführliches Martyrologium des Benedictiner-Ordens und seiner Verzweigungen by Alexius Hoffmann, O.S.B. (Collegeville, MN: St. John’s Abbey, 1922).

Your most popular benedictine saints are usually listed in your your benedictine divine office books. A few even have their own musical propers. (Scholastica, Placidus or Abbots of Cluny for example)
 
Thank you all for your prayers and kind words for my grandmother. We are still in Ohio and this is my first foray into the internet in days (life at the farm!).

My grandmother has yet to regain her lucidity from the anesthesia. She still suffers a lot of pain, but she is one tough little bird. Unsure of how things will go through the week but she is expected to fully recover. My court hearing schedule will heve to be re-written over the upcoming week or so, but I have to be here for my grandmother.

I hope things are going well for all. I will check in when I can.

David
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Thank you all for your prayers and kind words for my grandmother. We are still in Ohio and this is my first foray into the internet in days (life at the farm!).

My grandmother has yet to regain her lucidity from the anesthesia. She still suffers a lot of pain, but she is one tough little bird. Unsure of how things will go through the week but she is expected to fully recover. My court hearing schedule will heve to be re-written over the upcoming week or so, but I have to be here for my grandmother.

I hope things are going well for all. I will check in when I can.

David
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Thanks for the update. I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that you can be assured of our continued prayers.

Peace,
 
Back from Ohio finally. My grandmother is making slow but steady progress. We are optimistic for her recovery based on reports by her surgeon. I will keep you posted. At 96 years old, you can never tell what the future holds. My great grandmother made it until just before her 100th birthday.

Thank you one and all for your continuing prayers…

David
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Back from Ohio finally. My grandmother is making slow but steady progress. We are optimistic for her recovery based on reports by her surgeon. I will keep you posted. At 96 years old, you can never tell what the future holds. My great grandmother made it until just before her 100th birthday.

Thank you one and all for your continuing prayers…

David
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Good news so far!

Peace,
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Back from Ohio finally. My grandmother is making slow but steady progress. We are optimistic for her recovery based on reports by her surgeon. I will keep you posted. At 96 years old, you can never tell what the future holds. My great grandmother made it until just before her 100th birthday.

Thank you one and all for your continuing prayers…

David
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Great news. Praying…
 
Desiderius,

I tried replying to your PM, but you need to clear some of your messages in order to receive a new message.

David
 
By the way, I’m reading “The Franciscan Charism in the Third Millennium” by Anselm W. Romb, OFM CONV., a 1995 revision of the original 1969 release. Probably an elementary work to most CA folks, but I like the book so far.

Still haven’t heard from the Benedictine oblates at St. Leo. Three weeks have passed since my initial inquiry. I’ll give it one month before I attempt to re-establish contact. Do you think God is trying to tell me something?

My grandmother has regained her lucidity and is beginning to recuperate from her surgery. Thank you all for your prayers! Its been a hectic few days and I must say its nice to return to the CA forum. You guys are all right!

David
 
Tampa_Dave said:
By the way, I’m reading “The Franciscan Charism in the Third Millennium” by Anselm W. Romb, OFM CONV., a 1995 revision of the original 1969 release. Probably an elementary work to most CA folks, but I like the book so far.

Still haven’t heard from the Benedictine oblates at St. Leo. Three weeks have passed since my initial inquiry. I’ll give it one month before I attempt to re-establish contact. Do you think God is trying to tell me something?
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Perhaps, but not necessarily. The Oblate director at Subiaco Abbey took a while to respond to me as well. He was pretty forthcoming with the idea that many monks are lousy at communicating with the outside world. Some of the Oblates I have spoken to have strongly encouraged me to write a physical letter or to leave a voicemail since most times, the monks who deal with the Oblates tend to be some of the older ones who may not be in the habit of checking e-mail on a regular basis.

After three weeks, I would suggest sending a polite follow up to make sure your e-mail didn’t get lost in the shuffle.
My grandmother has regained her lucidity and is beginning to recuperate from her surgery.
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Great news!
 
Jason,

My Benedictine oblate contact responded to my original e-mail with a short reply indicating he would follow up with a few long e-mails. He never did, so I figured one month’s wait would suffice. I’m sure he has more important things on his mind - we are both lawyers.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Jason,

My Benedictine oblate contact responded to my original e-mail with a short reply indicating he would follow up with a few long e-mails. He never did, so I figured one month’s wait would suffice. I’m sure he has more important things on his mind - we are both lawyers.
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You of course have to use your own best judgement on how long is too long to go without a response. For me, unless I know something else is going on, a couple of weeks is pretty long in today’s world.

Cheers,
 
While waiting for a response, I’ve been reading up on St. Francis of Assisi, not St. Benedict. Perhaps I was influenced by my nieces from Franciscan University during my Ohio visit. The older one was with the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George before leaving the convent to marry a Byzantine Catholic. He just applied for a decent position at FU this past week.

I know I should be reading more on St. Benedict and the Rule, but I can’t bring myself to set aside my books on St. Francis. “The Franciscan Charism in the Third Millennium” is really good. But I digress …
 
jwinch2 said:
You of course have to use your own best judgement on how long is too long to go without a response. For me, unless I know something else is going on, a couple of weeks is pretty long in today’s world.

Cheers,
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A monk the monastery near me told me how he greeted a older Brother one morning when he first came to the monastery.

Young Monk: Good morning Brother. How are you?
Old Monk: The same.

I’ve seen one sit for a twenty minutes with a needlenose pliers trying to fix one bead on a rosay. Their clocks are wired a little differently than those of us on the outside. I love them to death, and if I didn’t have kids I might just be one, but sometimes you gotta poke them with a stick between offices.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
A monk the monastery near me told me how he greeted a older Brother one morning when he first came to the monastery.

Young Monk: Good morning Brother. How are you?
Old Monk: The same.

I’ve seen one sit for a twenty minutes with a needlenose pliers trying to fix one bead on a rosay. Their clocks are wired a little differently than those of us on the outside. I love them to death, and if I didn’t have kids I might just be one, but sometimes you gotta poke them with a stick between offices.

-Tim-
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Is there such a thing as monk time?
 
Well, I just got back from my retreat at St. Gregory’s in Oklahoma. Overall, it was an awesome experience. Getting to pray with the monks, attend Mass, etc. was fantastic. The retreat itself was very well done. Abbot Lawrence was a wonderful speaker and was very well prepared. I learned a great deal. The topic was on the fruits of the Holy Spirit as discussed by the writings of St. Paul. Throughout the 8 different talks over the 3 days, he managed to weave in aspects of the Holy Rule as well as the writings of early monastics such as St. John Cassian. In addition, I got to know many of the other people attending the retreat, including a few Oblates of the community.

The monastery itself is very nice. There is a wonderful museum with an incredible amount of artifacts, religious and otherwise. One of the early monks was a very good artist and actually painted the official portrait of St. Pope Pius X, which now hangs in the abbey.

Within the Church, there are many small alcoves which contain chapels for private masses, as well as the tabernacle. However, what blew me away was the one where a display case was kept containing relics from probably a hundred or more saints. They actually had a relic of St. Benedict as well as a piece of clothing from Our Lady and St. Joseph! Pretty amazing really.

There is an Oblate retreat in the fall which I am planning on attending. Unless something crazy comes up, I would imagine that I will end up at St. Gregory’s. I was also planning to visit Subiaco in AR, but that is an additional 4.5 hours beyond St. Gregory’s which would really limit my ability to get there on a regular basis. Since I had such a good experience at St. Gregory’s, I cannot see the wisdom in going that much further in terms of distance from where I live.

Once I get the pictures that I took uploaded, I will post a few of them.

Peace,

Jason
 
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