Oblates of St. Benedict

Hittinger To Speak On St. Benedict

The title of Dr. Hittinger’s lecture:“What St. Benedict Taught the Dark Ages — Then and Now.”

When Benedict of Nursia began writing The Rule of St. Benedict in the 6th century, Rome had fallen. The barbarians had breached the gate and ruled over the cities and the countryside. What was left of Western civilization was becoming [...]

Oblate Meeting and Lenten Day of Reflection

The Oblate meeting for February will be on the 20th and not the 21st. Oblates are encouraged to attend one Day of Reflection or make a retreat once a year. Belmont Abbey College will be having a Day of Reflection February 20th starting 10:00 Am and ending at 2:00. The Oblates will gather after the [...]

Day of Reflection at Belmont Abbey

Oblates and Oblate Novices are strongly encouraged to attend either this day of reflection or one that will be scheduled in Lent:
December 5: Abbot Placid Solari And Father Dwight Longenecker Lead An Advent Morning Of Reflection
Come “prepare the way of the Lord” in your mind and heart with our very special Advent Morning of Reflection, [...]

Former Belmont Abbey College president dies at 85

October 10, 2009 7:33 PM: Corey Friedman, Gaston Gazette. BELMONT — The monk and priest who led Belmont Abbey College as both a president and trustee, taught Shakespeare and helped raise the curtain on the Abbey Players theatre group died Saturday at age 85.
Father John Oetgen served as president of Belmont Abbey College from 1960 [...]

Passing of Father John Oetgen, OSB

Father John A. Oetgen, O.S.B.Monk and Priest of Belmont Abbey
1924 – 2009
Father John Oetgen, O.S.B., a monk and priest of Belmont Abbey, died peacefully in the early hours of Saturday, October 10. He was in the sixty-fifth year of his monastic profession, and the fifty-eighth year of his priestly ministry. He was born in Savannah, [...]

Annual Renewal of Oblation

Abbot Placid Solari will receive final and temporary oblations on September 27, 2009. Family members are welcome to attend the Mass and ceremony which will be followed by a reception. Mass will begin at 3:00. Please mail this form to the Monastery as soon as possible.
Oblates who have already made their final Oblation are expected [...]

Belmont Abbey College rejects discrimination claims by EEOC

Catholic college stands by church teaching
BELMONT — Belmont Abbey College has rejected a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determination that it discriminated against women and retaliated against faculty members while filed an employment discrimination charge.
In a statement released Aug. 10, college officials refuted the claim that the college discriminated based on gender in its decision [...]

Christ has no Body but Yours

During his time on earth, Jesus met and talked to many people. Some of those meetings were private; others were public, and had far-reaching effects. Some were both. For example, Jesus turned water into wine for the sake of a young bride and groom who were not too good on planning. But that wine was [...]

Abbot Placid’s Homily at Fr. Raymond’s Mass of Christian Burial

Mass of Christian Burial for
Father Raymond Geyer, O.S.B.
July 29, 2009

We have come together today to give praise and thanks to God for our dear brother, Father Raymond, who served God faithfully as a professed monk of this abbey for sixty-six years, and served the church tirelessly in his priestly ministry for over [...]

+ Father Raymond Geyer, OSB

Father Raymond Geyer, a monk and priest of Belmont Abbey for more than sixty years, died peacefully on Sunday afternoon, July 26. The son of Joseph A. Geyer and Kathryn Nuwer Geyer, Father Raymond was born on September 24, 1922, in Lancaster, New York. He attended Saint Mary’s Elementary School and High School in Lancaster, [...]