Nothing if not You, Lord

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Authored by Jay-Ar San Juan There is a beautiful story of when St. Thomas Aquinas was writing his treatise on the Eucharist for the Summa Theologiae. The story goes that he was very dissatisfied with it; he believed that his work did not do justice for the great mystery of the Eucharist. He was later…

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Fr. Jim welcomes the new websites

Welcome To The New Websites

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One of Venerable Lanteri’s most well known phrases is nunc coepi, which means “begin again.” In the spirit of this beginning again, Fr. Jim Walther, O.M.V is very happy to announce that the Oblates have launched 7 new websites.

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Jorge Sanchez

Unpack Your Hearts

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Have you ever stopped to think about the world and its many problems? Of these problems, which one is the biggest? Pope Pius XII says that “The greatest sin today is that men have lost the sense of sin.” We live in a world where doing what is right is considered so wrong.

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Daniel Conigliaro

Silence

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It’s a new year at St. Clement’s and Our Lady of Grace Seminary, so we are introducing a new theme for our seminarian blog! This semester, each of us will write about a book we read recently that we recommend to others. Over Christmas break, I read Shusako Endo’s novel “Silence,” the basis for the new movie directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Daniel Conigliaro samples some Thanksgiving food

Thanksgiving

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Every family has their own Thanksgiving traditions. Playing the annual football game on the back lawn, watching the Macy’s parade, or enjoying Grandma’s special cornbread stuffing or Aunt Sally’s pumpkin pie are just some of the timeless traditions that make Thanksgiving special to each person. To become part of a family means learning the traditions and stories that a family holds dear and sharing these moments of celebration with one another.

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The Prudential Building

Above the World

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Over this summer, I had a strange challenge of communication. As I told friends and relatives I was entering into novitiate, I had the difficultly of trying to explain to them what novitiate is. This challenge was made all the harder because I had no experience of novitiate. I settled on the inadequate definition that novitiate was like being on retreat for a year. Now, after living almost three months of novitiate, I have found that it is so much more that a long retreat, but I am still at a loss for an adequate description of the novitiate experience. Yet, as luck would have it (or more accurately providence), last Sunday has given me a metaphor that can come close to revealing what novitiate is like.

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St. Peter Chanel, Hawaiian Gardens, CA

Goodbye and Hello

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I was accepted into seminary with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary in the fall 2015. However, because of debt I had to stay in California and pay it off. Since I had to wait I decided to call this My Year of Goodbye.

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