March - April 1999                                         Vol. 3, No. 2

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| Ash Weds 1999 Homily - Abbot Timothy | PILGRIMAGE to Rome, Christmas 1999 (details...)

1999 Lenten Day of Recollection
"Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God!"
conference leader was Fr. Don Tauscher, OSB
Oblates of St. Benedict, St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN  56321
Sunday, 14 March 1999, at the Abbey Church | details ...

News & Announcements
HOLY WEEK schedule St. John's Abbey | New Oblate Candidates and Final Oblations | Small Group Meetings
| (*NEW*) Link to the Lectionary | (*NEW*) Link to the Benedictine Ordo | (*NEW*) Link to views of St. John's Abbey |
(*NEW*) OBLATE LINKS a growing directory of links devoted to Oblates  |
Calendar of the Saints for Mar - Apr 1999 | Deaths in the Oblate community

NOTE: The date on the printed issue of The Oblate for January -February 1999 was the wrong year!
Feature Articles
"Rosary" a poem by Lucie Johnson, OblSB |  "Frances of Rome" by Peg Gawne-Mark, OblSB
"St Benedict and Livng in the World - Final Part IV of a series" by Dennis Okholm, OblSB of Blue Cloud Abbey
Book review by Peg Gawne-Mark of Friend of the Soul, A Benedictine Spirituality of Work, by Norvene Vest