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Oblate Meeting Schedule 2009-2010

Theme: "We believe that the divine presence is everywhere." RB 19.1

 

September 13, 2009  Welcome Back Oblates! 

Start time is 1:00 p.m.

As always, you are welcome to join us at Eucharist at 11 a.m. and lunch!

Topic:  "Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job" by Brother Benet Tvedten

 

February 7, 2010 

"Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job," Part 2:  Benedictine Values for Daily Living & Climbing the Ladder and Benedictine Ways of Behaving

October 4, 2009

Fall Recollection Day on Reconciliation with Oblate Phyllis Thompson        

(10am to 3 pm)

 

March 7, 2010 - Lenten retreat day (10am to 3 pm)

"Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job," Part 2 cont.: Peace and Justice and Hospitality

November 1, 2009 

"Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job"

(Part 3) Being an Oblate and The Calling to Oblation

Oblation for Claudia Dietrich and Zanne Ness

 

April 11, 2010 

"Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job," Conversion and Stability

December 6, 2009 

Advent Prayer Time and "Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job" (1-3pm)

Part 1: Prayer & Holy Reading

 

May 2, 2010

"Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job"

5 Simple Guidelines for Oblates and The Value of Oblates to a Monastic Community

January 10, 2010

 "Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job"

Part 1 cont.: Seeking & Finding God Today & Every Day Running According to the Rule

 

Anyone interested in our oblate program is welcome to attend.  We are keeping you in prayer!

 

Click here to read an interview with oblate Phyllis Thompson, from British Columbia.  Phyllis presented a fall day of recollection in October 2009.

We were blessed to have Phyllis Thompson share an inspiring message on reconciliation and forgiveness.

Oblates of Annunciation Monastery (October 2009)

We would like to express our gratitude to our devoted group of Oblates who enrich our lives in   many ways.   May God bless all of you as you live and extend the Benedictine values!

 

Oblate Phyllis Thompson

Annunciation Monastery welcomed Phyllis Thompson, who presented at our October 7 meeting!  Below are some photos from her presentation about her attendance at the North American Association of Benedictine Oblate Directors (NAABOD) meeting in Lacey, WA. Sister Stephanie Dolyniuk also attended. Themes of the conference included Leadership (Qualities, Active Listening, Responding to Leadership, Humility, Models of Leadership and Leadership in the Rule of Benedict).

Sister Stephanie Dolyniuk by the front doors of St. Martin's Abbey Church. The doors were hand-carved from 14 different woods and stylized to honor the foliage mentioned in the Scripture.

Phyllis Thompson with the 9 ft. bronze statue of St. Benedict (with the raven which saved his life on one occasion.  The statue was created to honor the Abbey's 100th anniversary in 1995.

 

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Welcome Oblates, Dwight and Karen Kautzmann!

The sisters welcomed Dwight and Karen Kautzmann as Oblates of Annunciation Monastery on November 5.  Pictured above are:  Sister Susan Berger, Prioress; Dwight and Karen Kautzmann, and Sister Susan Lardy, oblate director.  We pray for them as they continue journeying with our monastic community in deepening our faith and commitment to God.

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"Work CAN and SHOULD be praise."

"Many people don't see their work as something they live to do.  God calls every person to become what God envisioned for us.  God has a need and purpose for each of us to fulfill.  We need to attend to this each day."                                           ~ Phyllis Thompson

 

 

 

 

Annunciation Monastery

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