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LETTER FROM THE SUPERIOR GENERAL #7:
"ALL IN THE FAMILY" February 2, 2009  Dear Fellow Oblates and Friends of Transitus, As we usher in the new civil year, we continue celebrating the new Liturgical Year, through which we participate in the Life of Christ and the Mysteries of Redemption and Salvation. The cycle of the liturgical seasons and feasts assists us in living life more closely in union with God and His Angels and Saints than merely living according to our secular calendars. It is through the Liturgical Year we become more attuned to God and His will and plan for our lives and for the world. If we would make one New Year’s resolution, it should be to live more faithfully and more intimately the Church’s Liturgical Year, through which we can most fully partake of the abundant life Our Lord came to give us. More »
LETTER FROM THE SUPERIOR GENERAL #5:
"BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED" October 3, 2008  On this date last year (2007), we made our intention of forming an association of lay monastics publicly known.2 “It is fitting that this is the day that we take this small but momentous step into such a fearful undertaking. For what we have embraced will require us to let go of so many things. Yet, what we seek to gain, in its smallest measure, is worth more than what the world could ever appraise. We sense we are entrusting ourselves to more of what we do not know than what we think we understand. Yet, we are fully aware of what we are attempting to do. We have a deep sense, though we could change our minds, that our bodies and our souls will forever remain changed. Even if this deep impression that imprints such an acute and lasting mark would fade or even disappear, its infliction will be forever felt. Yet, we not only want it to be felt, but to be operative and efficacious. Maybe this is a veiled glimpse of what our father Francis experienced on Mount Alverna.” More » |
 TRANSITUS OBLATES OF THE LAST MARTYRDOM is an integrated association of lay monastics, securing for souls a school of Christ. Transitus exists for Christians seeking to embrace the life of monks in a manner suitable for the laity, thus adapting the Gospel ideal––associated with monasticism––to their life in the world. THE RULE of the Transitus Oblates of the Last Martyrdom is to observe the holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ by following the example of the Saints, who made Christ the inspiration and model of their life with God and people. Jesus, the gift of the Father's Love, is the Way to Him, the Truth into which the Holy Spirit leads us, and the Life which He has come to give us abundantly.
OBLATES, each according to their ability, circumstance, and measure of grace, pursue union with God through the perfection of charity, in the spirit of the evangelical counsels (poverty, chastity, and obedience), under the guidance of a monastic Rule and spiritual directorship, in solidarity with their fellow oblates, and in service to others––going from Gospel to life, and life to the Gospel. THE GOSPEL is our primary rule, JESUS is our primary example, and CHARITY is our primary vocation and law. |
