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Tucson Oblate News

The Benedictine Oblates in Tucson are notable for their enthusiasm and diversity which enrich their gatherings usually on the third Sunday of the month. With about 40 participants, we study our Benedictine tradition through such themes as Prayer, Work, Humility, Stability, Conversatio Morum, and Obedience. A small group started spontaneously to meet for group lectio divina each Saturday morning during the summer, when regular meeting were not scheduled, and has continued for months since then.

Monthly Meetings

Oblate meeting dates:  Every third Sunday from September through May, except during the month of Novemeber. Meetings are at 2:00 p.m. except on renewal days when they begin at 10:00 a.m. Inquirers are welcome.
 
    September 19, 2010
    October 17, 2010
    November 14, 2010 (2nd Sunday)
    December 19, 2010 (Renewal Day)
    January 16, 2011
    February 20, 2011
    March 20, 2011
    April 17, 2011
    May 15, 2011 (Renewal Day)


Tucson Oblate Newsletters
The Tucson Oblate Director publishes a monthly newsletter for the Tucson oblates. The current and archived issues of this newsletter are available here.


Group Lectio
Date: Every Saturday
Time: 10:15 AM

The Saturday morning Lectio group will not gather during May, June and July. Our Lectio Divina meetings will resume on Saturday, August 7th, 2010.

For more information contact:

Sister Lenora Black, OSB - Oblate Director
Phone: (520) 325-6401

Affiliated with the Tucson monastery are a small chapters of Oblates in Prescott, Arizona, and two rapidly-growing Oblate chapters in Phoenix, Arizona.  For more information contact:

Prescott, AZ: Nancy Hinshaw - (928) 445-1271
Phoenix (Central): Mary Gibson - (602) 954-8408
Phoenix (East Valley): Nancy Kaib - (480) 883-8025
July 2010 Feast of St. Benedict Celebrations

In celebration of 75 years in Tucson, 70 of these being at the present location, the Benedictine sisters invited oblates in the area to join with them for First Vespers of the Feast of St. Benedict, and for a light supper with the sisters afterward.
May 2010 Oblate Renewal Day

 
Kevin Saunders

January 2010 Patty Williams Leads Discussion
June 2009 Oblate Meeting at St. Vincent’s

Oblates and Directors meeting at St. Vincent's Archabbey June 2009


(left to right) Lance Dickinson, Bette Dickinson, Mike Schroeder, Sr. Lenora Black, Nancy Kaib

August 9, 2008 Phoenix Chapter 10th anniversary celebration

On Saturday, August 9, the Phoenix, Arizona, Oblates celebrated their 10th anniversary. Srs. Lenora Black and Joan Therese Anderson joined with them for Mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, with Lauds and Lectio Divina following. The celebration continued with breakfast, then a talk by Fr. Patrick Farley about the influence of St. Benedict on his life.

Mary Gibson, then an Oblate of Sacred Heart Monastery, Yankton, SD, single-handedly started the Phoenix group ten years ago with Barbara Singer as her first inquirer. Mary introduced Sr. Lenora, who then announced the glad tidings that Patty Williams would be our delegate to the second World Congress of Oblates in Rome in October, 2009. Patty has worked enthusiastically with Mary in the formation of Oblates in both the Phoenix Central and Phoenix East Valley groups. Michael Schroeder, who is moderator of our Oblate Forum will be a delegate for the National meeting of Oblate Directors and Oblates at St. Vincent’s Archabbey, Latrobe, PA, next summer.

Praying Lauds

Mary Gibson		 
Patty Williams		 
Michael Schroeder

April 6, 2008 Prescott Oblate Meeting

On April 6 Sr. Lenora and Sr. Joan Therese went to Prescott, AZ, to meet with the Oblates there. They were happy to welcome two new Oblates who made their oblation.


From left to right: Sr. Joan Therese, Susan Stokes,
Nancy Hinshaw (director), Elaina Flann, Sr. Lenora.