Conference of Benedictine Prioresses

The president and the prioresses of seven member monasteries of the Monastic Congregation of St. Benedict (MCSB) attended the gathering of the Conference of Benedictine Prioresses (CBP) at Sacred Heart Monastery, Cullman, AL, February 1-8.

Maredret

The Abbot President, together with Sr. Madeleine Boland from Liege conducted a canonical visitation at the Abbey of St John and St Scholastica in Maredret / Belgium from 13 to 17 February 2023.

Meeting of Benedictine Abbots and Prioresses

Cullman, Alabama: A joint meeting of Benedictine Abbots and Prioresses was held at the Byre Conference Center of Saint Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama, USA, on the weekend of 3 February 2023.

Illah

On May 13, 2023 Brother Augustine Emineke Nwanizoba and Brother Chukwuma Emmanuel Ezebalu made solemn profession at Holy Cross Monastery Illah (Nigeria).

Engelszell (2)

Over recent months, the situation of fragility of the community of Engelszell (Austria) deteriorated significantly.

Engelszell

Dom Hubert Bony, superior ad nutum of Engelszell (Austria) since 2017, offered his resignation which was accepted by the Father Immediate, Dom Dominique-Marie Schoch, abbot of Oelenberg, on May 9th 2023.

Formation

Newsletter 34. OCSO

Zirc

We inform you that by a Decree of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life dated 15 May 2023, the Cistercian Abbot General Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori was appointed Pontifical Commissioner for the Cistercian Abbey of Zirc in Hungary, to remedy the difficulties of the institutions and to help monastic life.

Rio Pardo

The Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Rio Pardo (Brazil) have elected Father Paolo Celso Demartini as Abbot of the community.