Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

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Winning the Battle Against Temptation

Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich once quipped that if we could really see, that the fallen angels that surround us would blot out the sun.  I am no skeptic – I believe it. Sometimes I wonder if we realize the real struggle going on in the spiritual realm in our day to day lives.  Unlike monastics… Read More ›

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I go to the Lord

They said of Abba Pambo that in the very hour when he departed this life he said to the holy men who stood by him: From the time I came to this place in the desert, and built me a cell, and dwelt here, I do not remember eating bread that was not earned by… Read More ›

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