Oblate News
2024-2025 Oblate Program:
This year’s theme is Obedience.
OBLATE OCCURRENCES APRIL 2025
T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month…mixing memory and desire/Stirring dull roots with spring rain….”
Easter Sunday arrived just in time for us to rise again with Jesus, flowers to bloom, sun to shine. Alleluia! On Easter Monday came the inconsolable news that Pope Francis had died. The world that he called “our common home” (Laudato Si) mourned his departure; millions prayed him into eternal rest. Alleluia!
Our Oblate community passed the rainy month with Lenten observances and opportunities to attend Tuesday suppers, offerings by the Abbey Institute, Triduum presentations by Father Nicholas, Holy Week and Easter services, and the recent Oblate weekend retreat.
A survey has gone out via Survey Monkey to those on the newly revised Membership list, eliciting opinions about past, present, and future efforts with an eye to improving what works and changing what might work better. The recent retreat not only provided spaces for prayer and presentations but also opportunities for conversation and gleaning suggestions about becoming a greater Oblate presence at the Abbey, Oblate formation strategies, and increased intercommunication with the monks, to mention a few.
Regular meetings resume on MAY 6 with prayer and open discussion and JUNE 3 as an evening of recollection, ending the 2025-26 season. Please plan to attend in person or online via Zoom. The Oblate Steering Committee (OSC) will continue to convene through the summer. Newly nominated OSC members, Barbara Mirabito and Carol Stanton will begin two year terms in June as Karen Casale and Jean McDonald complete theirs.
Oblates continue to try to meet the extant “cruelty” besetting us at home and abroad with prayer Intentions for peace.
As always we welcome interested readers to contact us. As always we lift each other in prayer.
PEACE, ALLELUIA!
Oblate Steering Committee: Carolyn Carpenter, Karen Casale, Louise Deutsch, Jean McDonald, Jonathan Regan, and Oblate Director Fr. Albrecht Nyce OSB
(Louise Deutsch 4/29/25)
For inquiries, please click here to email and a Steering Committee member will get back to you. Oblates meet the first Tuesday of every month September through July starting with Compline at 7:15 PM in the church, followed by our 7:30 PM hybrid meeting. The September meeting is the official start of our new year. During Compline, we celebrate new Novice commitments, new Oblates making their Oblation and current Oblates making their yearly renewal.
Oblate Steering Committee 2024-2025: co-chairs Jean McDonald and Karen Casale. Other OSC members: Carolyn Carpenter, Louise Deutsch, Jonathan Regan, Fr Albrecht Nyce.
