Commitment as Oblates

“You are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5:14, NAB)

The Latin term oblatus means being offered or given to God.

Those who by a sacred promise commit themselves

to the vocation of oblates,

yet live –

– in the world, first of all search for God with the help of those Christian values, which spring from the spirituality experienced in the Cistercian Monastery.

.

Drawing upon the intellectual and

spiritual life of the monastic community

the oblates carry the Light experienced

in the Monastery to those who live

in the world.

By the testimony of their lives the “aisles”, so to speak, of the Monastery expand, that those who live arround them  may participate in the riches

of the Cistercian way of life.

“…that the world may believe that you sent me.” (John 17:21, NAB)