How to Be a Monastic And Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voice from the...

How to Be a Monastic And Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voice from the Monastery) | Brother Benet Tvedten | Benedictine Oblate

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	How to Be a Monastic And Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voice from the Monastery) Brother Benet Tvedten Paraclete Press (MA), 2006 - 119 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

STRONG ADVICE FOR ALL OF US NEEDING TO RESTORE THE SENSE OF THE SACRED AND ITS PRACTICE INTO OUR SECULAR AND BUSY LIVES

This book of course cannot set up a monastic schedule coordinating with your particular work and family life, as the variety is far too great within the intended audience of lay persons. FOr this you really need an individual Oblate Director and your own intense and daily prayer commitment in order to discern, discover and to realize all the ways and slow paths to conversion by which the ancient Rule For Monks of Our Holy Father Saint Benedict already winds its ineluctable road throughout your own individual life. But this book is a mighty guide, wise counsellor, constant coach, inspiring leader, generous gatekeeper, and encouraging friend in times of despair, disanimation, lassitude and the will to quit once and for all to path towards eternal life in God's merciful Love.

In the words of Our Holy Father Saint BEnedict, may we all get there together (or, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned us, die apart as fools).

Not much more to add to what has already been indicated here, except that this book has the power to open up for you the possibility of truly praying and living the Rule, and the Gospel, in your daily life, as difficult as this may be in our modern world. This book can set you free, to begin. Please read it and consider seriously taking on the commitment and the possibilities within your own limited life. What have we got to lose! I'll encourage you if you will encourage me too!

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Benedictine Oblate

I guess I didn't read the introduction when I purchased the book otherwise I might have known that in order to become a Monastic you first must become a Benedictine. That's a tongue in cheek comment by the way.

There is the Oblate's in the Benedictine world and "Third Order of St. Francis" in the Franciscan order, both provide a somewhat structured method of achieving some sort of normalcy in a hectic world. The Oblates of St. Benedict is a unique group in that every Benedictine Monastery has a Oblate group. The interesting thing about being a Oblate is that you do not need to be a Catholic in order to join. In my own experience as well as my wife's, we have been Oblates for nearly ten years at a Monastery in Arkansas. There isn't much that they ask you to do except for praying the "Liturgy of the Hours," and following the writing of St. Benedict in his "Rules" book. Depending on the Oblate Director at the Monastery, your participation in their community as an Oblate can be done twice a year at a retreat.

So I guess that If you learn anything from the book is that you can be a part of the community of Christ by praying and being a good person with the help of a local Benedictine Monastery. I would suggest to visit a Monastery, any Monastery, because all of them are founded on the same principle that each visitor is treated "as if Christ Himself came to the door!" Which is the primary principle of St. Benedicts Rule.

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Shallow Enough to Wade Into at the Beginning

I am a convert not anywhere near a monastery and not ready for oblate life who has only known one benedictine for a short period of time. While the emphasis on community and oblate life within the confines of a monastery is rightly there, this short book has introduced me to a new approach and a philosophy of life that is as refreshing as it was unexpected. While it doesn't include the rule, it includes simple concepts -- enough to keep me busy, questioning, reordering my days, and embracing a kind of peace unusual in this current day's pace. I would also highly recommend a book called Oblation: Meditations on St. Benedict's Rule. It is a collection of poetry born as a reaction to various parts and concepts contained in Benedict's Rule.

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