Oblates commit themselves by promise, not vow,
to a particular Benedictine community
and strive to live the principles central to Benedictine spirituality:
particularly peace, hospitality, and the desire to seek God daily.
Oblates - insofar as their state of life permits -
strive to engage in regular daily prayer and sacred reading,
to attend scheduled oblate meetings,
and to make an annual retreat...often as a group.
Oblates include in their prayers the well-being of their monastic community,
and acknowledge that the monastics
and they share the commitment of lives
focused on the Gospel teachings of Jesus and the wisdom of Benedict's Rule.
Further - as their state of life permits -
oblates often are involved in some of their monastic community's apostolates.