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Comment on Interview with Fr. Neilson, OSB by admin

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:53:17 +0000

This post was a side-column that was published in The News and Herald. It is not not very complete but thought it would be a nice addition to the site and showing a different side of the monks. Their official biographies can be seen posted on the monastic website: http://www.belmontabbey.org/abbey-monks.html

Comment on Interview with Fr. Neilson, OSB by andrea whiting OblSB

andrea whiting OblSB — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:25:41 +0000

Not knowing the monks very well at all, it is great to read little bits about men one knows have more depth than this article shows. Every little 'bit' is insiteful. The spirtual depth shows through.

Comment on It Is Darkest before the Dawn by GADEL

GADEL — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:16:57 +0000

I this is a great motivation to us. Wow, it took Handel 24 non-stop days to arrive at his masterpiece? Cool.

Comment on It Is Darkest before the Dawn by george bang

george bang — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:51:54 +0000

I am a musician, and I was not familiar with this aspect of the life of Handel. Very inspiring.

Comment on Oblate Breviary by Scott

Scott — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:41:10 +0000

I'm a Benedictine oblate of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and awaited the
publication of the new Liturgy of the Hours book with great
anticipation. I was both very impressed and just slightly disappointed by
the book.

On the negative side, I had the same thought you wrote about: no holy
day or sanctoral material.

On the positive side, it does provide most of what the monks pray and
chant each day, on the same cycle, with the same chants. It is
attractively printed. And it is a major expansion of the one-week
office we have had for years in our Benedictine Oblate Companion
(oblate manual).

Still, I think the ideal would be to have access to all of the same
material the monks use, including feasts and solemnities. Ideally this
could be published electronically either on a CD or PDF files. But I
understand that there are often copyright issues.

I think it is an important new resource for oblates, and I have been
hearing that it's selling well.

I also have the Benedictine Daily Prayer and have problems with its
leaving out so many psalms, its odd translations of some things, and
its layout. It could be a great breviary in the Collegeville tradition
but was published when not quite ready, in my opinion.