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Reflections, Resources and Recommendations

Reflections, Resources and Recommendations. For Benedictines and their Friends Visiting the Web Bro. Richard Oliver, OSB 27 September 2002. Three Themes. The webpage as a dwelling: principles of cyberhospitality Sharing information, teaching, transmitting text: resources for Oblates

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Reflections, Resources and Recommendations

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  1. Reflections, Resources and Recommendations For Benedictines and their Friends Visiting the Web Bro. Richard Oliver, OSB 27 September 2002

  2. Three Themes • The webpage as a dwelling: principles of cyberhospitality • Sharing information, teaching, transmitting text: resources for Oblates • Using the web to create community

  3. Section One:Cyberhospitality Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, “I came as a guest, and you received Me”(Matt. 25:35; RB 53:1).

  4. Approach to webpage design • Look, Ma, what I can do!!! • Web page as product • Where I am compelled to be cool and sport the latest. • I can’t do this!!! Let’s forget it.

  5. Another View • A web page at its best becomes a welcoming portal for those who are searching for different kinds of information. • The web weaver builds and maintains a comfortable, accessible, updated space. • The web “porter” manages the questions, inquiries, communications from visitors.

  6. Resources for Web Weavers • www.osb.org/welcome.html General philosophy and links to helpful sites. • http://employees.csbsju.edu/roliver/scrip/ The Scriptorium, Abbey Web Office practical tips for HTML authors

  7. Resources for Web Porters • “Webkeepers: Twenty-first Century Monastic Porters” by Diana Seago, OSB, and Linda Herndon, OSB inBenedictineswww.mountosb.org/cyberporters.html • Benedictine Internet Report(Jan. 1998)www.osb.org/bic/report.html

  8. Message and Technique: what is your goal? • A technically sophisticated site: • http://www.farnboroughabbey.org/ • A simple site: • http://www.benedictinesisters.org/ • An intermediate site: • http://www.sbm.osb.org/

  9. Section Two:TransmittingInformation “...let all occupy themselves in reading” RB 48.

  10. Complaints fatigue not creative boring text Blessings lectio divina indoors stability Complaints standards browsers hack work Blessings lectio divina worldwide stability Scribes Old and Newhttp://employees.csbsju.edu/roliver/scrip/scriptoria.html

  11. Saint Benedict Rule of Benedict Dialogues, Bk II Historical Overview ABA * AMN General Information Liturgy * Chant What’s New RB Daily Daily Reflection Universalis Blue Cloud Lectio Divina Retreat Centers Oblate Formation Monastic Websites ResourcesAcademic & Spiritual

  12. Anglican Benedictineswww.osb.org/intl/angl/ • Communities living according to the Rule of Saint Benedict • Communities living in the spirit of Saint Benedict • Selected Anglican Resources • Friends of Saint Benedict and • The Benedictine Experience

  13. Prayer and Spirituality "In the sight of the Angels I will sing praise to You" (Ps. 137), RB 19.

  14. The Liturgy of the Hours (1) • Reading and Psalm Cycle for the Liturgy of the Hours, from Mount St. Scholastica in Atchinson, Kansas (with commentaries for the readings) http://www.mountosb.org/ • Exellent resource about “short” breviaries www.kellerbook.com/

  15. Liturgy of the Hours (2) • You can pray the liturgy of the hours from your computer screen at www.universalis.com • You can listen to the liturgy of the hours at www.monksofadoration.org/audiolit.html

  16. Monastic Spirituality New Melleray Abbey’s Primer on Monastic Spirituality contains instructions on lectio divina and contemplative prayer. The link below will take you to their index page. To find the Primer choose the “Vocations” folder. www.newmelleray.org/

  17. An Interreligious site by David Steindl-Rast, OSBwww.gratefulness.org/ A wonderful prayer site by the Irish Jesuits www.jesuit.ie/prayer/ Contemplative Spirituality (1)

  18. Contemplative Spirituality (2) • The site of the Taize community. Contains the songs and prayer instructions. www.taize.fr/en/index.htm • Instruction and information on centering prayer at Contemplative Outreach Ltd. www.centeringprayer.com/

  19. Lay Benedictine Spirituality • “Listening and Responding: Benedictine Spirituality in Non-monastic Contexts” by Wil Derkse www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/logos/derkse.html • “Catholic, Benedictine Values in an Educational Environment” by John Klassen, OSB; Emmanuel Renner, OSB and Mary Reuter, OSBwww.osb.org/acad/benval1.html

  20. Information for Oblates and Benedictine Friends

  21. Oblates’ Reference Site At the OSB website, information and links about Oblates www.osb.org/obl/

  22. Manual, Constitutions for Oblates • Saint Vincent Archabbey, PA: Formation Manualwww.osb.org/sva/obl/ • Saint Andrew’s Abbey, CA: “What it Means to be an Oblate,” and Oblate Constitutionswww.valyermo.com/oblates1.html

  23. Camaldolese Oblates The eremetical branch of the Benedictines includes a Rule for Oblates at the website www.camaldolese.com/

  24. Internet Oblates Oblates of the World Community for Christian Meditation. Laurence Freeman, OSB Monastery of Christ the King London, England www.wccm.org/obl01.html

  25. Of Historical Interest • “The Benedictines”by Dom David Knowles OSB LittD (1896-1974)www.osb.org/gen/knowles/ • “The Origin of the Oblates”from the Oblate Manual (1955)www.saintjohnsabbey.org/obl/info/oblhistory.html

  26. Oblate Newsletters Online

  27. Various Styles of Newsletters • Saint Walburga Abbeywww.walburga.org/oblates.html • St Procopius Abbeywww.procopius.org/spirituality/oblates/1stOblatePg/1stoblatepg.html • Saint John’s Abbey www.osb.org/oblate/ • Benedictine Sisters of Clyde, Missouri. www.benedictinesisters.org/c6.html • Some monasteries (like Blue Cloud) use a listserve

  28. Section 3:cybercommunity “...for the strongest kind of monks, the Cenobites”(RB1).

  29. Benedictine Interest Listserves • OSB-L at listserv@vm.marist.edu Low volume general Benedictine list • MonasticLifeat http://groups.yahoo.com/ High volume, lively list offshoot of OSB-L • Oblateforumat http://groups.yahoo.com/ A list for Benedictine Oblates

  30. Benedictine-related Interests • Center-l at listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu About the practice of centering prayer. Quiet to lively • Interreligiousdialog at http://groups.yahoo.com/ loosely connected with MID, mostly book discussion And many others…

  31. You Could Start Your Own Group It is easy to do at places like http://groups.yahoo.com/ even if you are not technically savvy, and don’t have listserv software You could also run your own listserv, but the advantage of the Yahoo site is that one can do everything on the web, and one’s mailbox does not get cluttered

  32. Shameless Advertisement The OSB Website Store www.cafeshops.com/osb

  33. Appendix Choosing an ISP Internet Service Provider

  34. Setup Fee (rare? waived?) Monthly Fee (AOL: $21.95/mo.; $239/yr.) Duration (stability) Disk space / storage Hit limits Statistics (WebTrends, analysis software) E-mail: 6-12 usernames; AOL: 5 screen names FTP (file transfer protocol) Choosing an ISP / Web Server

  35. HTTP 2 (hypertext transfer protocol) CGI (common gateway interface) or ASP (active server pages; M$) Active X XHTML Front Page Extensions Audio files Video streaming List management Chat Instant Messaging Choosing an ISP (2)

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