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 – March 2023
I am an oblate of Minster Abbey, in north-east Kent. As a married layman I am not, and never will be, a full member of that Community. But I do not see myself as a second class citizen – I am not some sort of lay brother brought in to do the tedious bits and to free up the Sisters so that they can concentrate on the real holy stuff.