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Annie
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| Location: | Columbus, Ohio USA |
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| First Name: | Annie | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | nothing, Quaker, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican, Catholic |
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 12:58 pm |
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Last week I drove down to St. Meinrad Indiana to the archabbey. After vespers I went forward and Fr. Meinrad Brune, the director of the oblate program, asked me if I wanted to become a novice oblate. I said, "I do." He put a scapular on me (one end has St. Benedict, the other has his sister St. Scholastica), gave me a St. Benedict medal, a copy of the Rule of St. Benedict, and two other books specific to the oblate program there. He had also made sure that two other people from retreats that were going on were there so I wouldn't be alone. One of the men is a member of my local oblate chapter so I will be seeing him at chapter meetings. They thought of everything, Benedictines are famous for hospitality and they really showed this.
The archabbey church and grounds are very peaceful and the guest house is brand new and very comfortable. The food was very good too. It was very hot and humid so I didn't get to make as many movies as I wanted to but I did get some film inside the church. Somebody was practicing the organ and there was a monk cleaning the kneelers with a dust buster so I call the soundtrack, "Canticle for Organ and Dust Buster." The windows are beautiful, a mixture of Western and Eastern influences.
The chant was beautiful (in English) and since it was a special day (St. Bartholomew) a trio of monks sang in polyphony while we had communion.
I hit the gift shop on the way home too.
I would recommend that place to anybody, for either a group or solitary retreat. Here is their website:
http://www.saintmeinrad.edu
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| Location: | San Antonio, Texas USA |
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 01:31 pm |
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Yeah, the Benedictines are wonderful. I did a live-in retreat at St. Gregory's Abbey at the beginning of my first Lenten season as a Catholic. There was a small group of young men who made the retreat. Myself and a friend made the trip up from Texas and there were a few guys attending school there at St. Gregory's University.
We did everything the monks would do. We sat and recited the liturgy of the hours in the abbey church, we did recreation, we worked most of the day on Saturday clearing some of the grounds, and we had great devotional sessions.
I agree with Annie, if you get the chance attend a retreat with the Benedictines. I myself would love to visit an archabbey one day.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 02:12 pm |
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Annie, I looked all through the St. Meinrad website, it looks like a place you could find a lot of peace and meditation and prayer in. I'm happy you are moving ahead with the oblate noviceship. Thanks for sharing it with us! 
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Annie
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 02:17 pm |
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| The weather was so hot it felt like somebody left the door to Hell open. I understand some of the original Swiss settlers went back home, they couldn't take the heat and humidity of the summer. The whole area is beautiful, forested rolling hills.
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Racaela Fultz
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| Location: | Indiana USA |
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 05:20 pm |
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I love St Meinrads! It's only an hour from my house, and I've been there twice. My parents took me and my siblings on a fieldtrip there when I was ten, and my parents said this summer that that must have been a "mistake." It is beautiful, and peacefull, and I want to go back there now that I'm...well, almost Catholic.
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