Oblate News
2024-2025 Oblate Program:
This year’s theme is Obedience.
OBLATE OCCURRENCES JUNE 2025
Summertime brings watermelon weather: warmth, endings and beginnings, rest and recreation, relaxation and recollection.
Oblates at Glastonbury Abbey held a final meeting on Tuesday evening Jun 3 with a look back over a year of deepening in Benedictine obedience with prayer, song, and comments. Quoting T.S. Eliot, “our end [became] our beginning,” as we surveyed objectives realized; for example, more complete, membership lists, a revised Oblate Handbook, renewed entries in the Abbey Newletter and monthly news right here.
We extended profound thanks to the Oblate Steering Committee (OSB) members Karen Casale and Jean MacDonald for two years of generous service along with a joyous welcome to new members Barbara Mirabito and Carol Stanton. Carol Carpenter, Louise Deutsch, and Jon Regan remain. Special thanks to Maddie, prayer intentions minister, Fr. Albrecht OSB, Oblate Director (and tech wizard), and John Hopkins, Formation Coach.
The OSC will continue to convene during July and August, designing what is anticipated to be a promising and prayerful 2025-2026 year of activities, events, and deepening commitment to both Abbey monk and oblate communities.
Our initial meeting is scheduled for September 3. Stay tuned for profession of Oblate Novices and reception of new Novices and Observers; renewal of oblate promises for all the professed.
Thank you, each and all, for another year of grace—watermelon weather and all.
Peace!
(Louise Deutsch 6/30/25)
As always we welcome interested readers to contact us. Contact director, Fr. Albrecht Nyce OSB or any of the Oblate Steering Committee Members: Carolyn Carpenter, Louise Deutsch, Carol Stanton, Barbara Mirabito, Jonathan Regan, and Oblate Director Fr. Albrecht Nyce OSB
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.
