Oblates of St. Benedict

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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.

Scope and Contents Oblates are attached to a particular monastery. They may live near the monastery or at a distance; they may be in regular contact with the Sisters and other Oblates or they may have little contact. The Oblate Directos used the Newsletter as one way to connect with all of the Oblates. These Newsletters are one resource that shows the evolution of the Oblate Program over time. This collection has 40 years of Oblate Newsletters that the Directors wrote to the Oblates. They communicate news from...

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This collection has a sampling of oral histories from Oblates of St. Scholastica Monastery, Chicago, Illinois. It holds the transcripts and some ancilliary materials. The audio recordings of the interviews are in the Digital Recordings Collection.

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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.