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	Oblates of the Holy Spirit -- Who Are We
		Membership in the Oblates of the Holy Spirit is open to all those who have committed themselves to follow Jesus Christ through Baptism and are at least eighteen years of age.
		Oblation is open to male or female, lay or cleric, married or single persons who affirm a belief in the articles of the Nicene Creed and uphold the traditional church teaching on human sexuality and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.
		The person must submit to the Abbot of the Oblates a signed, written summary of at least several sentences, stating why he or she seeks postulancy as a means of enhancing his or her faith-journey with Christ and the Church.
	www.oblates.net /who.html (1759 words)

	wcr:07/21/2003 -- Fresh air wafts through Oblates
		Oblate Father Glenn Zimmer, is the coordinator of the process Towards a New Province.
		Oblate Father Leo Engel, a retired 90-year-old, expressed the significance of this historic process: "This is an event that I would not have missed.
		Oblate Father Rick Kelly, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ottawa, agrees with the profound and positive implications of the process: "There is great hope for the future as a community of Oblates with our lay brothers and sisters.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2003/0721/oblates072103.shtml (1021 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		Oblates are encouraged to be active in their own churches and to worship regularly.
		Becoming an oblate, while not on the same level of commitment as becoming a nun or a monk, isn’t something to be taken lightly.
		An oblate’s objective is to not only show love and genuine concern for others, but also to seek God’s presence in his fellow man. Oblates are to be an example and witness of Christ, show reverence for life, help the defenseless, practice hospitality and charity and follow the Benedictine tradition of peace.
	www.nwanews.com /adg/Religion/157259 (1112 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oblati
		Oblati (Oblatæ, Oblates) is a word used to describe any persons, not professed monks or friars, who have been offered to God, or have dedicated themselves to His service, in holy religion.
		At a later date the word "oblate" was used to describe such lay men or women as were pensioned off by royal and other patrons upon monasteries or benefices, where they lived as in an almshouse or hospital.
		These oblates began religious observance at S. Lucia della Chiavica, were transferred to Monte Citorio, and, when the convent there was pulled down by Innocent XII in 1693, returned to S. Lucia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11188a.htm (1143 words)

	Oblate Rule
		Oblates are extended members of the Camaldolese Benedictine family, seeking to share, in their own special way, in its way of living the Christian life.
		Oblates should seek to make their work an integral part of their spirituality, uniting themselves with God who in Christ is working in the world in order to bring all things into unity.
		Oblates are encouraged to adapt the rule to the particular circumstances of their lives in consultation with the oblate chaplain.
	www.camaldolese.com /rule.htm (4807 words)

	Stability in the World: An Oblate's Reflections
		Benedictine oblates are people who are not monks but who dedicate themselves, in communion with a particular monastic community, to the service of God and neighbor according to the Rule of St. Benedict, insofar as their state in life permits.
		Oblates and oblate directors would do well, however, to reflect on the challenge systematically and give their gift in witness to the world concretely.
		Oblate or monastic, Benedictines who practice stability may also offer signs pointing toward the healing of the earth -- and though those signs be small and local it is the nature of the case that only such signs may count.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /gwschlabach/docs/oblates.htm (2620 words)

	Oblate_Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Oblates of St. Benedict are Christian men and women admitted into spiritual union and affiliation with a Benedictine community of monks, nuns, or sisters so that they may share in the spiritual life, prayers, and good works of the community.
		Oblates do not usually live in the monastic house of the community, yet they remain one with the community while they continue faithfully to carry out the duties of their particular state in life and occupation, wherever they may be.
		Oblates recognize that their success as lay apostles depends on their living in close union with the Spirit of Christ in the Church, and that this intimate union with the Lord is especially nourished in the sacrament of the Eucharist.
	www.mtangel.edu /Oblate.html/Oblate_Guidelines.htm (1659 words)

	Oblate (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Oblate in Christian monasticism (especially Roman Catholic and Anglican; the Orthodox Christian equivalent is called a Rasophore) is any person who has been offered to God, or have dedicated themselves to His service, in holy religion.
		Traditionally, oblates are laypersons, not professed monks or nuns, who have individually affiliated themselves in prayer with a House of their choice.
		Examples include the Oblates of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto (Olivetans), the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Oblates of St Frances of Rome (founded 1433 in Italy; alias Collatines), the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and the Benedictine Oblates of St Scholastica (founded 1944 in Italy).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oblate_(religion) (675 words)

	Godless Science: Religion and Skepticism
		As skeptics, as scientists, we have to recognize the fact that all supernaturally-based religions and gods are profoundly pseudoscientific, and violate every one of the four laws of thermodynamics.
		Religion tells us that life without god is meaningless: that god is love, and our only purpose is to worship him.
		Protestant religions are fighting against new age and other pseudoscientific beliefs because they see those views as competition, not because they value critical thinking or atheist thought.
	www.godless.org /sci/skepticsandreligion.html (6772 words)

	ooBdoo
		An oblate spheroid is a rotationally symmetric ellipsoid having a polar axis shorter than the diameter of the equatorial circle whose plane bisects it.
		As with all ellipsoids, it can also be described by the lengths of three mutually perpendicular principal axes, which are in this case two arbitrary equatorial semi-major axes and one semi-minor axis.
		The oblate spheroid is interesting because it is the approximate shape of many planets and celestial bodies, including the Earth.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Oblate (253 words)

	Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860, by Diane Batts Morrow. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		As fl women religious, members of the Oblate community observed the vow of chastity in a society that denigrated the virtue of all fl women—slave or free—and consequently considered the concept of chaste fl women an oxymoron.
		This approach appropriately highlights the study's fundamental thesis that the Oblate Sisters exercised self-definition and self-empowerment as it attempts to reconstruct the Oblate antebellum experience from the perspective of the sisters themselves.
		Chapter 3 examines the development of Oblate communal life, the sisters' sense of communal identity and their collective consciousness as a society of fl women religious, and the articulation of a statement of philosophy for the Oblate school.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/morrow_persons.html (4189 words)

	Oblate Sisters of Providence Library: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of ...
		The express purpose of the founding was the education of the children of people of color who were refugees fleeing the horrors of the Haitian revolution of 1793.
		The Oblate Sisters of Providence is the oldest order of Religious Women of Color in the world.
		Highlights include works on the Oblate Sisters of Providence, their missionary endeavors in Cuba, Costa Rica and the United States, as well as their educational programs and ministries of service to the church in the Americas.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/ospl.html (808 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		Perhaps you’ve thought the life of an oblate intriguing — a happy medium with a toe dipped into a monastic river without a complete soaking in the vows of chastity, poverty or silence.
		Brother B enet gives hints as to why this form of spiritual living is so appealing — the prayer support from the monastic community; the values of hospitality, charity and simplicity oblates practice wherever they work and live; and the structured prayer life.
		It is a means of spiritual renewal for many people and a way to live out their convictions with gentle accountability and a guide for everyday decisions.
	www.nwanews.com /adg/Religion/157266 (613 words)

	Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate - View Article
		To put this letter in context, Bishop Khamsé, an Oblate and the bishop of Vientiane, has for some time been the only active priest in his diocese and his health is failing.
		Religion is regulated and so permissions are needed for ordination.
		The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate thank you, our supporters who have helped make this possible and ask you to join with us in thanking God and praising Him with joy in our hearts for this wonderful occasion.
	www.oblates.com.au /index.php?page=23&id=66 (624 words)

	Oblates of St. Francis de Sales - Spirituality Center
		Indeed, they believe all the mysteries of our holy religion but, their faith lacking the company of charity, they do not perform any of the good works consistent with it.
		The prudence of the mundane is satisfied with this and wants to do no more than what is necessary in order to have eternal life and in order to flee whatever can cause their damnation.
		Beholding the defects of the saints, while admiring their lives, we learn how great is the goodness of God who forgave them, and we learn to avoid the like and to do penance for them, as the saints have done.
	www.oblates.org /spirituality/online_articles/faith.php (5712 words)

	oblates1
		Thus an oblate is not simply someone who is interested in monastic spirituality: like a monk or nun, the oblate is part of a particular monastic community which he or she regards as his or her spiritual home.
		Instead, oblates carry Benedictine spirituality back to their parish communities, and they share with their monastic community the fruit of their life in the parish and in the world.
		The oblate program and the process of oblate formation are described in more detail in the Oblate Constitutions, a document which is part of the Customary (and thus part of the "proper law") of the Abbey.
	www.valyermo.com /oblates1.html (733 words)

	Disgraced S.A. priest joins sect in Costa Rica
		Stripped of his priestly authority by the Oblate Fathers in Texas under accusations of sexually molesting children — which the 73-year-old cleric vehemently denies — Prado now has become a fugitive from his order and the chief celebrant for a reputedly violent doomsday cult in Costa Rica.
		That was long before the Oblate Fatherhood stripped him of his clerical authority in 1991, ostensibly over theological differences, but, according to Prado, accompanied by accusations of child molestation.
		Religion News Blog (RNB), published by Apologetics Index, highlights news items and other resources on world religions, cults, religious sects, alternative religions and related issues.
	religionnewsblog.com /4915/disgraced-sa-priest-joins-sect-in-costa-rica (1868 words)

	Sacred Heart of Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Oblates' Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
		May these hearts which you have brought together in your name and in that of your holy mother be not scattered; those whom you have called together be not dispersed; and those you have joined together be not separated.
		Grant rather, that the names of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales be written forever in the book of the Living with the just who reign with you in the life of everlasting happiness.
	www.oblates.us /heart.htm (628 words)

	SSPX Oblates
		In his sermon, Rev. Fr Philippe Lovey of the SSPX General House in Menzingen explained to the faithful the role of the Oblates in the Society, and the apostolic goal of their vocation.
		The word ‘oblate’ means ‘being offered’, being given to God: thus the Oblates draw all the graces of their religious life from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
		As there is no fixed date of entry, aspirants engage as SSPX Oblates after a year of postulancy and a year of novitiate.
	www.papastronsay.com /SSPX_Oblates.htm (570 words)

	Benedictine Oblates: Interesting Thing of the Day
		While I’d like to think that I became a Benedictine oblate before reading Norris (somehow I think it is morally superior to choose a path before it becomes popular), the truth is that her ruminations on the relevancy of Benedictine spirituality for contemporary life were formative in my own choice.
		More specifically, oblates are lay people who take an abbreviated form of monastic vows (called “promises”) and become associate members of a particular monastic community.
		However, for the oblate, stability is interpreted more generally as not only keeping one’s commitments in life but also committing to the deeper stability of one’s inner being, to a calmness and peace of mind.
	itotd.com /articles/274/benedictine-oblates (1651 words)

	Religion and Skepticism
		Religion and the supernatural are a classic bait-and-switch scheme.
		The people suing Dow Corning were annoyed at the fact that the science didn't agree with what they believed – and, rather than acquiesce to the science, rather than admit to the limitations of reality, they punished the company.
		The only reason why communism was atheistic was because, as a new religion, as the revealed word according to Karl Marx, it was forced to distinguish itself in some way from all the others, not because it valued science – quite obviously the reverse, as the Lamarkian debacle shows.
	www.godless.org /science/religion-and-skepticism.htm (6854 words)

	The Oblate 49:3 (September-December 2005). Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minn.
		As an Oblate candidate, I still have much to discern on my Oblate journey but have made a few observations that I hope will be helpful to others during their Oblate candidacy.
		What does it mean to live the life of a Benedictine Oblate of Saint John's from sunrise to sunset, in your kitchen, in your car, at work, at home, at the abbey, through the night.
		The Oblate is published by Saint John's Abbey, 31802 County Road 159, Collegeville, MN 56321
	www.osb.org /oblate/49/index03.html (1808 words)

	Condemned priest is restored to church
		In a telephone interview, Singer, the Oblate vicar general of the central U.S. province, said he had used the Prayer of St. Francis as a theme for meditation throughout the six days.
		Bernard Quintus, Oblate provincial in Sri Lanka, praised the process in a letter to Oblates of his region.
		The Oblates issued a news release saying members of the religious order had decided in November, at their general council meeting, to send an “ad hoc reconciliation team” to Sri Lanka to meet personally with Balasuriya.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/013098/bala1.htm (995 words)

	Multi-Citizenship: Wide loyalties \| The-Tidings.com
		We are not just citizens of one country, members of one religion, members of one family, and members of one race and gender.
		We are citizens of the world before we are citizens of a country; women and men of faith before we belong to some religion; Christians before we belong to a particular denomination; baptized before we are priests, bishops, cardinals or popes.
		Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father Ronald Rolheiser is a specialist in the field of spirituality and systematic theology.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/0422/rolheiser.htm (946 words)

	Morrow, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Morrow describes her work in recovering the history of the Oblates "as a response to scholar Cyprian Davis's assertion that no adequate history of any of the fl Catholic sisterhoods exists" and she says, "this study aspires to be a contribution toward rectifying such an egregious omission" (11).
		Morrow is not the first to write a history of the Oblates, but her study breaks new and fertile ground because she brings to light dimensions of the Oblates' significance in the American Catholic Church and in the wider American culture that others have not.
		Enrolling their daughters in the Oblates' school, organizing fundraisers for the Oblates and their ministry, giving money to the sisters, and offering moral support to the Oblates were all ways in which the fl laity provided assistance and encouragement to the sisters.
	northstar.as.uky.edu /volume6/morrow.html (919 words)

	Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
		Religion offers a sense of protection to people in their daily lives.
		In Mexican Catholicism, symbols are a means for always remembering the religion and for maintaining a holy and a safe home.
		Religion can help us to apologize for things we feel we have done wrong.
	www.humanities-interactive.org /borderstudies/learning_activity/activity4.htm (1238 words)

	OBLATE COMMUNICATIONS
		As Oblates, we have the opportunity to be present in most of these countries, in the East where we are developing, and in the West where we are diminishing.
		For the Oblate vocation team, it was a challenge since, for the first time, the retreat took place in a community and not in an Oblate house as was the custom.
		While several Oblates have written their doctoral thesis on the life and spirituality of the Oblate Founder, St. Eugene de Mazenod, recently a member of a lay organization for youth in Italy has focused on him for her dissertation.
	www.omiworld.org /Informazioni.asp?L=1&I=277 (6621 words)

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