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The Oblates Of Mary Immaculate along and the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, are offering a Personal History Discernment Retreat.
Who am I? Where is God leading me? Looking for Direction!!
Through reflection, writing and prayerful discernment let yourself be led through a process to explore your experiences, your gifts, your dreams, your relationships and see how God is inviting you to move forward in discipleship and holiness.
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Fr Ken will facilitate annual retreat hosted by the Chaplaincy Team and the Newman Centre St Thomas More College in Saskatoon. The retreat will take place at St Peter's Abbey in Muenster SK. Contact STM's Chaplaincy Team to register or for more information: http://www.stmcollege.ca/current-students/campus-ministry/index.php
Come to St Benedict’s and spend the weekend with Religious sisters, brothers, and priests who have found meaning in their lives in religious community. This Discernment retreat is organized by the Religious Communities of Manitoba. To register, or for more information, contact:
Sr Mary Coswin: mcoswin@mts.net or
Fr Ken Thorson: vocations@omilacombe.ca
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII
"Here is the Christian invitation, therefore, no longer to live at the surface, not to live at the level of glitter and triviality, but to be filled with the peace and the love of God…"
- John Main OSB
"Wherever we work, our mission is especially to those people whose condition cries out for salvation and for the hope which only Jesus Christ can fully bring. These are the poor with their many faces; we give them our preference."
- Oblate Rule C.5
The central desire in the life of St Eugene de Mazenod, the Founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was helping people to see who they were in the eyes of God. In his 1813 Ash Wednesday Homily spoke these words to the poor and forgotten of Aix en Provence in France:
"You are creatures of God, and you are God's children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ... you are kings, you are priests, you are, in a way, Gods... Within each of you there is an immortal soul, made in the image of God whom it is destined one day to possess, a soul which has been redeemed at the cost of the Blood of Christ... God alone is worthy of your soul. Only God can satisfy your heart.
We are missionaries. We began 188 years ago, on January 25, 1816, when Father Eugene de Mazenod and four companions came together to preach missions in Provencal, in the rural countryside of southern France. And currently, how many are we? Where are we? What do we do?
We are 4,440 Oblates in all - young men, old men, Oblates in formation, priests, Brothers! Of this total, almost 600 are in formation, having already made their first commitment.