http://www.osb.org/new/current.html What's New in the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) en-us Order of Saint Benedict, MN 56321-2015 http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#rodrigues http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#rodrigues On 1 February 2010, Dame Teresa Arlete Rodrigues OSB, 79, died. As a member of Stanbrook Abbey, she led the Alliance for International Monasticism from 1984 to 1996, bringing her into contact with monasteries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. RIP. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#conception http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#conception The National Catholic Reporter focuses on Conception Abbey's use of management consultants to help the monks revitalize their apostolate of Catholic publishing. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#consecrated http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#consecrated Founded by Pope John Paul II, the annual world day of prayer for those men and women in consecrated life will be celebrated on Sunday, 7 February 2010, in the United States. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#haiti2 http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#haiti2 The founding abbey of Mount St. Benedict, Haiti, posts regular updates, in French, about the continuing crisis in Haiti. CMSM maintains an archive of messages conerning various communities of men or women religious in Haiti. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#paulino http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#paulino Dom Paulino Gutierrez OSB, 99, the last Spanish-born monk of New Norcia Abbey, died on Monday, 18 January 2010. He had spent 80 years resident at New Norcia before moving to a care facility in his last year. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#haiti http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#haiti Morne [Mount] St. Benedict Monastery, 65 km north of Port au Prince, Haiti, was spared the extensive destruction of property and loss of life that devastated the capital. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#casey http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#casey Father Michael Casey OCSO, monk of Tarrawarra Abbey, Australia, produces a weekly podcast on the Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict. http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#spring http://www.osb.org/new/current.html#spring Oblate Spring seeks to answer your initial questions about Benedictine Oblate monasticism. The website's resources are supplemented by The Obalte Blog. http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#vatican http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#vatican The Holy Father quoted from the Rule of Saint Benedict in his homily during the Christmas Vigil Mass at the Vatican, 24 December 2009. http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#eleganti http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#eleganti On 7 December 2009, the Holy See annoounced that Dom Marian Eleganti OSB, second abbot of St. Otmarsberg, has been named titular bishop of Lamdia and auxililary of the Swiss diocese of Chur. http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#boulding http://www.osb.org/new/0904new.html#boulding Prioress Maria Boulding OSB (1920-2009), nun of Stanbrook Abbey, wrote popular theological books and translated the Confessions of Saint Augustine. Both The Times and The Independent published obituaries of this sometime hermit who died in North Yorkshire.