{"id":9,"date":"2006-09-28T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=9"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:43:51","slug":"oblation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/oblation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oblation"},"content":{"rendered":"

O<\/span>n September 10th, I made my final oblation to Saint Martin’s Abbey in Lacey. I am an Oblate of the Order of Saint Benedict<\/a>. It is quite an indescribable thing to be a monk in the world.<\/p>\n

As at confirmation, one is expected to take on a new name. I chose Bede<\/a>, as he is a Benedictine Saint (always a plus), as well as an historian and writer. <\/p>\n

Already, the images of Saints Benedict and Scholastica have faded from my scapular and it has become, like my Benedictine medal, a thing faded and worn and well-loved. Decay and ruin, after all, are as much part of this world as creation and construction. Old things are a spiritual comfort to me. My spirit soars at the sight of those ancient ruined abbey walls rising from fields in Britain.<\/p>\n

Yes, those abbeys were destroyed by a wicked king and the monks sent out into the world or to their graves. But though the works of that king are, by and large, the history with which we bore our students, those magnificent ruins rise as a testament to both the ephemeral works of man and the eternal works of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 10th, I made my final oblation to Saint Martin’s Abbey in Lacey. I am an Oblate of the Order of Saint Benedict. It is quite an indescribable thing to be a monk in the world. As at confirmation, one is expected to take on a new name. I chose Bede, as he is a Benedictine Saint (always a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moments-in-time","category-pray","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1aGBK-oblation","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90024,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-dozen-years-of-amateur-monasticism\/","url_meta":{"origin":9,"position":0},"title":"A Dozen Years of Amateur Monasticism","author":"Thom","date":"10 September 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Twelve years ago, on September 10th 2006, I made my final oblation to Saint Martin\u2019s Abbey in Lacey. 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