Box OSBCHI-E-1

This collection includes a guidebook prepared for Benedictine Oblate Programs in the early days of NAABOD and some of the materials related to the annual meetings of the organization. The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago used material like this as they prepared and developed their own Oblate Program. There is a set of reports with excerpts of meeting minutes from national conferences. There are also two manuals, one for Oblates and one for Directors of Oblates.

This collection contains promotional material and guidelines for Benedictine oblate programs, the membership lists and directories of St. Scholastica Monastery oblates, as well as some correspondence of oblate directors, and liturgical worship aids. One worship aid is related to efforts to canonize Benedictine oblate Dorothy Day. This collection will continue to grow as new content is created and donated.