Bulletin 111, November 2016
Congress of Benedictine Abbots and Priors
Rome 5-16th September, 2016
Contents
Editorial
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM
Formation
• Message of Pope Francis to the participants
at the Congress of Benedictine Abbots and Priors
• Summary of the Opening Address of Dom Notker Wolf, OSB
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, President of the AIM
• Final Address to the Congress of Abbots
Dom Gregory Polan, new Abbot Primate
• Monastic Life Today: Communion in the Light of the Word of God
Dom Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO,
Abbot of the Monastery of Novo Mondo (Brasil)
• Reply to Dom Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO
Dom Guillermo Arboleda Tamayo, OSB,
Abbot of the Monastery of Medellin (Colombia)
• Monastic Life Today - Communion Enlightened by the Word of God
Brother Alois, Prior of Taizé (France)
• Reply to Brother Alois
Dom Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, Abbot of Mount Angel (USA
• Contribution of Dom Mauro-Guiseppe Lepori, OCist
Abbot General of the Cistercians
News
• Session of Benedictines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in India
Sister Emérence Mbala Kitenge, Monastery of the Tree of Life (DRC)
• Journey in Southern Africa
Sister Gisela Happ, Secretary General of the AIM
• Journeys in Vietnam
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, President of the AIM
• Closure of the Monastery of Fujimi (Japan)
Dom Roman Paur, Prior of Fujimi
• The Monastery of Agbang (Togo) raised to the Dignity of an Abbey
Dom Cyril Schäfer, OSB, St Ottilien
• On the subject of the Bulletin of the AIM