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highlights • Offering retreats for: college students, sisters, priests, and the imprisoned in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri • Giving talks to youth and church groups • Witnessing marriages for alumni and friends • Confirmations in Kansas • Monks forming FOCUS and SPO missionaries
states with oblates states where monks ser ved
• March for Life in Washington D.C. • Hosted 2015 Junior Institute – forming monks from around the country
selected works: abbot james albers
service by the numbers Monks serve more than 2,300 students from grade school to graduate programs in Kansas, Rome, Belgium, & England.
Monks staff six parishes in Northeast Kansas providing the sacraments to more than 1,400 families.
1,403
Families served by monastic pastors.
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Masses celebrated in parishes and chaplaincies daily.
confirmations throughout ks celebrating masses on ewtn - al
fr . brendan rolling
focus - az , co , fl , ga , mn , mo , & pa witnessing marriages - mo & mn
fr . meinrad miller
leading retreats - in , mo , & ne witnessing marriages - co , ks , & mo
fr . matthew habiger
offering conferences - al & nc retreats for prison oblates - co
fr . jay kythe
courage international - mi witnessing marriages - mo & mn
br . leven harton
youth ministry - ks mi vocations work - ks , mo , & tn
fr . roderic giller
Monks celebrate Masses and provide reconciliation each day for the students, parishioners, prisoners, and sisters whom they serve as chaplains.
jesus caritas - az hospice , prison , & military ministry
- ks
fr . jeremy heppler leading retreats - ks witnessing marriages
- mn
fr . simon baker
leading pilgrimages & retreats - co, fl, ks, & tx witnessing marriages mo & tx
Oblates live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, joining the monastic community in its life of common prayer from afar.
fr . maurice haefling
care for holy cross abbey - co congregation finance council work
- il
These are just a few of the good works done by the monks – always striving for the good of the world and the glor y of God.
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