Gaudium magnum! With great joy, on February 1, 2018, the Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the Monasteries of Our Lady and Saint Laurence welcomed His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH for his first Hierarchical Visitation to our monks and nuns. His Eminence was accompanied by His Grace Bishop JOHN, Vicar Bishop for the Western Rite.
An Orthodox Way of Life According to the Rule of Saint Benedict
Welcome to our first contribution to this blog. We are Orthodox Benedictine Oblates with the Holy Monasteries of Our Lady and St. Laurence, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Western Rite Vicariate, in Canon City, Colorado. We are men and women; we are married and single; we are young and seasoned, living in our own homes. We live in the United States from Alaska to Florida and from California to Massachusetts. We live in Brazil, Spain and Russia. Our home parishes include the Greek Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church in America, Antiochian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Some of us Oblates have always been Orthodox and others are converts to the Faith. We worship in our home parishes using either the Eastern Rite or the Western Rite.
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