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2008 – Camaldolese Tidings Summer Camaldolese Hermits of America New CamaldoliCamaldole Hermitage • Big Sur, California • Volume 14 • Issue 2 • SummerTidings 2008 “Empty yourself completely … content with the grace of God.” The Brief Rule of St. Romuald Photo by Rick Losser Your word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path. –Psalm 119:105 2 ~ Camaldole Tidings Prior Knowledge – Father Raniero God Lives Deeply in Each of Us In the 14th Chapter of St. John’s technology is creating a desire within Gospel, Jesus tells us that if we love him women and men to seek stability and the and are true to his words, then the Father meaning and purpose of their life. This will love us, and then, he and the Father desire can also be felt and experienced will come and make as a void or emptiness in their dwelling with us!! Those who seek our the midst of the so-called – John 14:23 life and spirituality, “fullness” that society and This is similar through the vowed technology are offering. Individuals are oftentimes to the teaching of St. God to call men and women to the vowed life, through retreats reluctant to look within Augustine who tells contemplative life (especially here at New here at the hermitage themselves for answers for us that God is more Camaldoli) so that through their witness what they are seeking. And intimate to us than we or through our oblate many others may be awakened to and yet, deep within them there are to ourselves – God program journey with encouraged in their search for stability, is the answer, there is the is the most intimate meaning and purpose. And let’s be us into this primal pearl of great price, there is of who we are. So if grateful for our many oblates who embody truth that the meaning and quality of we want to know God, the contemplative reality of human life life that is always present then we must know our we and God in places and encounters that we in the and which no one can take self, for God lives deep vowed life will never be able to do. are One. from them. Namely, there is within each one of us. Loving God, deepen our within them this union with Deep within each one consciousness of your living within us, God, the contemplative dimension of their of us we and God are One. This is the so that from that graced being in Oneness life –of every human life. Camaldolese contemplative truth and dimension of with You, that is within us, we may live spirituality specifically points the monk every human life – and especially every more genuinely and generously our and nun to this inner journey. Those who Christian life. The pearl of great price is relationship with You, with others, with seek our life and spirituality, through the within us – we are called to become more ourselves. Amen. and more conscious of it. vowed life, through retreats here at the Not everyone is called to a vowed hermitage or through our oblate program contemplative life – to be a contemplative journey with us into this primal truth that monk or nun – but those of us who are, we and God are One. are responding to a particular call that So let’s pray for each other as we witnesses to, that calls attention to, that continue the ongoing discovery of God awakens others to the contemplative dwelling within each one of us. Let’s Camaldolese Tidings is published by the dimension present within their own life. pray that God will awaken all humanity Camaldolese Hermits of America for our friends, oblates, and sponsors. The busyness of our society as to the awareness of the contemplative dimension of every human life. Let’s ask well as the rapidly changing world of Publisher Father Raniero Hoffman, OSB Cam. Prayer Schedule Editor Brother Bede Healey, OSB Cam. Weekdays: Development Director 5:30 am Vigils Robert J. Allen 7:00 am Lauds Public Relations & Design 11:30 am Eucharist Susan Garrison 6:00 pm Vespers If you have questions or comments about this publication, please address them to: Sundays and Solemnities: New Camaldoli Hermitage 5:30 am Vigils 62475 Coast Highway 1 7:00 am Lauds Big Sur, CA 93920 11:00 am Eucharist (831) 667-2456 • Fax: (831) 667-0209 5:00 pm Vespers E-mail: [email protected] Camaldole Tidings ~ 3 Camaldolese Communications By Fr. Robert Hale, OSB Cam. Mountain Center, the Esselen Native This column wants to share with American Tribe, and Esalen Institute. you Camaldolese happenings since our Several of us monks have offered last newsletter. “Communications” is quiet days to our Oblate groups in this etymologically linked to communion, period: Brother Bede in Pasadena, Father and that is what we hope to deepen by Daniel in Newport Beach, and I in Santa keeping you abreast of things. Obviously Cruz. Thanks so much to our Oblates who just some recent news items can be noted worked so hard in these various places to here, given limitations of space. But we’ll organize the retreats, reserve sites, provide Conference, reminding all of us that the try our best! refreshments, etc.! Holy Spirit is the source and energy of Raniero, our beloved Prior, and And thanks to our Oblates who the prayer and ministry of monks, and Brother Gabriel and two Oblate friends, have really worked overtime in sending indeed of all Christians. Father Michael Chris Lorenc (a real historian of our out the invitations and receiving the Fish participated in the Christian/Jewish/ th heritage) and Torrey Waag, participated RSVPs for the 50 Anniversary Oblate Hindu/Buddhist Seminar in an Oregon in the quarterly Four Winds Council that Lunch in August.. cathedral. brings together four significant centers Brother Emmanuel and Brother Our artist Brother Emmaus here of our Ventana Wilderness in the Big Gabriel have participated in the very recent had a powerful diptych painting accepted Sur area: the Hermitage, Tassajara Zen Northern California Charismatic Renewal into a Pasadena Christian art competition, and his work ended up with the “Best in Show” award! See their website, www. Dear Monastics of Camaldoli, greatchristianart.com . Our weekly liturgical sheet The Saturday before Pentecost is the anniversary (in the liturgical year) of (beautifully wrought by Brother Emmaus) my becoming an oblate of New Camaldoli. Tomorrow will be a little more special is now posted online. One need just join than usual … it is the 10th anniversary of my oblation. I’m not sure I can find the the lively forum MonasticLife (and one words to describe how profoundly transformative these past ten years as an oblate may lurk) at http://groups.yahoo.com . have been. But I can say with absolute clarity, that the Camaldolese charism and Father Andrew and Father Arthur in how it is lived out in my particular life is the path that God calls me to follow. It is Incarnation Monastery are already a path that has taken me on a journey that I could have never predicted in advance, preparing for their September 2009 but one that has profoundly deepened my understanding of the primacy of love. pilgrimage for Oblates and friends to our hermitages and monasteries in Italy. – Matt They have offered this several years now, and people find it very rewarding. For further information, e-mail Andrew Please remember us at [email protected]. Father Arthur when making is painting several canvases for his upcoming exhibit in October at the Ira or revising your will. Wolk Gallery in Santa Helena. Father Thomas at Incarnation has taught a course on monastic interfaith dialogue at the Our official name is: Graduate Theological Union. All three monks of Incarnation have offered quiet Camaldolese Hermits days and retreats at Santa Sabina Center in San Rafael. of America Our regular hermitage bell, elec- tronically run, was out of order for several days! A hermitage without a bell is really handicapped, but we do have our backup huge bell which is hand rung, and its Our federal ID # is: sonorous sounds have continued to call us 94-6050278 to church on time, where we have praised and given thanks to God, and also prayed for all of you! Please do pray for us! 4 ~ Camaldole Tidings Monastic Vocations for New Camaldoli Hermitage (As taken from the writings of Father Michael Fish, OSB Cam) As a monastic and contemplative community living in the Benedictine tradition, we place an emphasis on solitude and community. This is a balance that requires specific skills and a certain level of spiritual development. Our life is challenging and different than many ways of life in society. We accept candidates only under the age of 45, and find this to be better suited for our way of life. As a Roman Catholic order we encourage all candidates to be practicing their faith and active in their Catholic parish. Therefore, we encourage people to wait until their mid-to-late twenties before seriously considering our way of life. The monks labors include hospitality, re- treats, book store, writing, and original art, pottery and music. Many of the monks were called Photos by Rick Losser to monastic life as a second career. For- mer lay careers of community members Vocations are obtained from God thanks to prayer. I invite you include college and high school teaching, performing arts, engineering, clinical psy- to ask, with fervor and constancy, for new vocations to the chology, chemistry, construction and the priesthood and to consecrated life from the Master. United States Armed Services. Former religious careers include – Pope John Paul II in Austria, June 29, 1998 service as diocesan priests and as mem- bers of Benedictine, Franciscan, Salesian, St.
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