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	<description>Oblates of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog about Benedictine values, prayer and life.</description>
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		<title>Pure and Earnest Flaws</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I married in a short private ceremony that brought together briefly some of my and my husband&#8217;s families. I find myself thinking about some of what I learned about the human beings who encountered one another in this sacred time of beginning. My witness is a woman who can talk and talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedictine Oblate&#8217;s Guide to the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benedictine Oblates tend not to be computer people.  We are not particularly excited by the possibilities of our technological age. We generally prefer books in print.  Prayer in quiet times and places is preferable in the main to surfing the internet.  A walk, in almost any weather, is preferable to sitting at a computer, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolution:  Go at God&#8217;s Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some reflections by oblate Bruce B &#8212; very fitting for a time of year when we reflect on how we most want to live our lives, especially regarding how our spirituality might inform the shape of our work lives: There was a time when I worked 60-90 hrs a week and a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying on the Front Side of the Beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More reflections from Cynthia &#8212; nourishment for any new or reaffirmed resolutions we might consider as we approach a New Year in the middle of our Christmas celebrations of God&#8217;s incarnation. Here is Cynthia&#8217;s experienced wisdom about how to keep perspective and a sabbath sensibility, even when work responsibilities threaten to knock us out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Your Utensils?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benedictine Oblate Retreat Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia, an oblate, shared the following about how she understands the Rule&#8217;s chapter on caring for utensils &#8212; by meditating on what utensils are employed in her own work: &#8220;My experience as an oblate has taught me what my &#8216;utensils&#8217; of work are. My work is widely varied due to the roles I fill as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Advent Pondering:  Work &amp; Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benedictine Oblates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having turned in grades yesterday after a semester that kept me at a steady trot, I&#8217;m ready to enter the remainder of the season of Advent with more space for reflection than an evening devotional I do with my companion. And though it may seem like a strange season to ponder about work amid so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oblate Day 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benedictine Oblate Retreat Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Click on any photo to view larger image.  Thanks everybody for a great day!]]></description>
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		<title>A Confession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hearing an awful lot about Catholic teaching these days: social teaching, moral teaching, teaching on sexuality, teaching about the poor, who&#8217;s speaking out about particular teaching and who&#8217;s not vocal enough, etc&#8230;  Catholics aren&#8217;t the only ones concerned with truth and how we&#8217;re to live it out. All the mainline denominations are struggling with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Insights Insisting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been noticing that in middle age, it&#8217;s not so much that I have as many new thoughts as that I find myself pondering more fully a thought or insight that caught my attention &#8212; if briefly &#8212; in the past. I&#8217;m reminded of something Joretta Marshall, who teaches pastoral care, said over and over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does God Hear the Poor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;See and be glad, you who have nothing! You who seek God, take heart! For YHWH hears the poor; God has not neglected those who are captives&#8221; (Ps. 69:32-33). This is a refrain throughout the psalms &#8212; that no matter what injustice is afoot right now, God&#8217;s ear is attuned to those who are left [...]]]></description>
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