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If you are a visitor: The Oblate Community of the Monastery of St. Gertrude is an ecumenical community. We welcome Christians of all denominations and traditions and expect that members of the oblate community will be very respectful and welcoming of traditions and perspectives that they may not share. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
To learn about becoming an oblate with our community, go to the monastery’s Meet the Oblates and Become an Oblate pages. They include a contact form for asking questions.
As part of the Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude, we are experimenting with and living into new realities of membership and belonging. There are many ways of belonging — being an oblate is just one. To learn more, visit our Benedictine Sisters at www.stgertrudes.org/participate.
The process to discern oblation takes around 3-4 years, on average, as shown in this flow chart.
Oblates of other communities transferring to ours join this process at the Novice stage, to allow time to get acquainted with our community before formally transferring their oblation.
