
The UK Oblates Team are a small group of volunteer oblates from various monasteries who, since the first World Oblates Congress in 2005, have formed a team to act as a conduit for information for oblates and thus established this website for oblates and monastic communities, who may wish to make use thereof. We want to provide information about oblates and for oblates, and about the different Benedictine monastic communities that exist in Great Britain and Ireland. Read more…

Thought for the month – February 2023
Ordinary Time. For the first three weeks of February this year we find ourselves, as we did straight after the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, in what is depressingly known as “ Ordinary Time”.