oblate

The Abbey also has a large and active community of oblates.

The other two groups were the lay brethren and the oblates.

Now, the Oblate Fathers say the house is too big for them.

In 2009 the number had grown to 23 Oblates including 5 ordinations.

The parents were lay associates - "oblates" - of the order.

Parents who offer their babes as oblates do not therefore give up loving them.

The school closed and re-opened many times under the Oblates in its earliest years.

A new edition, by a missionary of the Oblates.

He may have been a confrater or oblate of the order.

Oblates were the third group of the religious.

Iona currently has 8 houses, many of which are named after famous Oblates.

Those among the oblates so inclined could live a common life there, according to their Benedictine spirituality.

His role as director is one of direction and vision to the entire Oblate Youth community.

He was then taken in by the Oblate Fathers.

There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.

Zilin turned his head away from the flat oblate of the sun.

Oblates are men (lay and ordained, over 18 years of age), who join the community, but live outside the monastery.

This is basically a vegetarian facility with egg oblate.

A dowry was required for their admission to the community, while not for oblates.

In modern practice, many Benedictine communities have a greater or smaller number of secular oblates.

The society today consists of less than ten professed sisters, with several oblates and associates.

The population of 4,726 students from 98 parishes was served by 109 Oblates, 9 nuns, and 14 laymen.

A packed Oblate Hall lent a great atmosphere to the occasion.

The Oblates left the region in 1853.

He died on February 2, 1908, surrounded by his Oblate Family.