The Virtual Oratory
11 Rue Max Jacob
St. Benoit-sur-Loire, France 45730
France
ph: (0)2-38-35-75-12
halbertw
The Virtual Oratory connects people in a virtual house of prayer inspired by the patron saint of joy, Philip Neri, guided by the writings of John Henry Newman, and under the supervision of Fr. Hal Weidner, CO.
What We DoOratorians are lay people, priests, and brothers. On this site you will be invited to explore resources and news being a virtual community of prayer, an open contemplative community, sharing prayer with anyone seeking God.
Philip Neri, said Newman, came to save people IN the world, not from it. So without being monastic or cloistered, we are contemplatives at the service of others.
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This was the lurid cover for Thomas Merton's Bantam paper edition of his autobiography. We have come a long way in our understanding of contemplative prayer from this fantastic graphic meant to sell a very spiritual book to people waiting in bus stations!

What's NEW!
Sunday reflections are ON again in the meantime....
Good news...the program that Yahoo is ending has nothing to do with this site!!!! It is something about a facebook like thing. I had never signed up for it so I do not know why they notified me! Anyway. What a relief...this billow ceased to roll (see Sundays 12 th in ordinary time!!!)
Summer Reading!!!
See Notes and Words...links and quotations and reflections...starting off with (Summer? Reading?) Mary Oliver's Winter Hours.
Blog speaks to Blog... fatherhal.blogs.wesleyan.edu
Don't forget because there are two or three short, mostly, posts.
The Virtual Oratory
11 Rue Max Jacob
St. Benoit-sur-Loire, France 45730
France
ph: (0)2-38-35-75-12
halbertw