Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

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True freedom is interior

Freedom is what makes man to be man.  Freedom is what distinguishes man from the rest of visible reality—sun, moon, stars, elements, plants and animals.  On the natural level, freedom is man’s greatest gift or quality. What is freedom?  Freedom is the ability to choose between various goods; it means that man is not determined… Read More ›

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The most important time of life

Getting older is not easy for one by one, aspects of our physical selves are lost that when young, were taken for granted.  As we age we are all called upon to find inner reserves that allow us to deal with this slow decline with grace, if not with ease.  It is a daily choice… Read More ›

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The futility of analyzing “the good”

The more one seeks “the good” outside oneself as something to be acquired, the more one is faced with the necessity of discussing, studying, understanding, analyzing the nature of the good. The more, therefore, one becomes involved in abstractions and in the confusion of divergent opinions. The more “the good” is objectively analyzed, the more… Read More ›

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Discernment

There is more than one way to look at the whole process of discernment and each person who is seeking to make some kind of choice about a course of action will deal with it differently.  No matter how it is done, or who one talks to, in the end it is up to the… Read More ›

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Learning Ourselves

Life consists in learning to live on one’s own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one’s own — be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering… Read More ›

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