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A Few Words Spoken on the Occasion of Fr. Romario’s Ordination
On November 29th, 2025, Fr. Romário Wilson Vianna Peron, O.S.B. was ordained as a priest of our monastic community at our priory in Brazil, Mosteiro São José. The most senior member of the Brazilian community, Fr. Josias Dias da Costa, O.S.B., offered the following remarks during the ordination mass. Translated from Portuguese and lightly revised for publication.
Finding a Rhythm That Saves: My Journey to St. Benedict Abbey’s Oblate Program
One of our newest Oblates recounts how he found renewed hope and spiritual strength when he embarked on a path towards closeness with the St. Benedict’s Abbey monastic community.
By: Joe Dolan, Obl. O.S.B.
Living the Rule in the World: The Oblates of St. Benedict’s Abbey Part II of II
Friends of St. Benedict’s Abbey can choose to live Benedictine spirituality in their own daily lives. Those who do so intently may become Oblates of the community. Read on to learn more. Part II of II.
By: Shelby Bland
The Pilgrimage of Hope: Honoring Our Local Saints
This fall, many of our monks went on a local pilgrimage to holy sites in the lives of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Blessed Stanley Rother, and Venerable Emil Kapaun. Br. Maximilian recounts how the experience moved him.
By Br. Maximilian Mary Anderson, O.S.B.
Living the Rule in the World: The Oblates of St. Benedict’s Abbey pt. I
Friends of St. Benedict’s Abbey can choose to live Benedictine spirituality in their own daily lives. Those who do so intently may become Oblates of the community. Read on to learn more. Part I of II.
By Shelby Bland
St. John of the Cross: A Patron for the Hurting
A friar, mystic, and poet, St. John of the Cross dedicated his life to reforming the Carmelite Order alongside his friend and fellow Doctor of the Church, St. Teresa of Avila. His feast is celebrated on December 14th.
By: Fr. Jay Kythe, OSB
To Ask, To Seek, To Knock: Papal Homily for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life
Delivered by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square for the celebration of Mass on Thursday, October 9th, 2025 during the Jubilee year, this homily was addressed to those who, like the monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey, have responded to the Lord’s calling to religious life.
The Great Cloud of Witnesses: Celebrating the Saints
On Nov. 1st, we celebrate the Feast of All Saints, a devotion that takes us back many centuries. All Saints became a universal in the 9th century, but its origins trace back to the beginnings of Christian faith, to the days of the first martyrs and the Roman persecutions.
By Fr. Marion Charboneau, O.S.B.
The Hope of Advent: More Than an Idea, It’s a Promise
A former inmate submitted the following reflection on the power of the Advent Season, inspired by St. Benedict’s Abbey’s outreach to prisoners and to the formerly incarcerated re-entering civil society.
By Andrew B.