Oblate News
2024-2025 Oblate Program:
This year’s theme is Obedience.
Click here for the October news from Glastonbury Abbey Oblates.
We hope these news notes will serve to keep the Glastonbury community current with Oblate activities further bonding us with the monastics and lay associates in mutual prayer, hospitality, service, and peace.
Louise (Benedicta) Deutsch, Obl OSB
For inquiries, please email: oblates@glastonburyabbey.org 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.
John Hopkins from the Oblate Steering Committee, wishes to share Lynn Ungar's poem, "Pandemic," a beautiful sentiment in these troubling times. Click here to read the poem.
Oblate Updates:
April 2020
March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 Nov. - Dec. 2019 Sept. - Oct. 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019
Oblates for the Future: Symposium 2021, September 28-October 2, 2021
Click here for details on this Retreat-Oblate Symposium postponed until 2021.
Oblates for the Future Symposium: Cottonwood, Idaho, October 2018
Click here for Symposium summary article on Page 7 of the American Monastic Newsletter.
5th International Oblate Congress: "Moving Forward: Living the Wisdom of the Rule."
Rome, November 2022. (Exact dates to be posted when available).
4th International Oblate Congress: "A Way Forward: Living the Wisdom of the Rule."
Rome, November 2017
Click here to read an article by Abbot Primate Gregory Polan.
Click here to read Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, keynote address from the 4th International Oblate Congress held in Rome, November 2017
Click here to read the article by Judith Valente, November, 27, 2017, "Benedictine Oblates Stand at a Crossroads in Monastic History"
