The Monastic Ideal of Life and Death
Bulletin 118 - 2020
Contents
EDITORIAL
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM
LECTIO DIVINA
Eucharist and Service (John 13.1-15)
Humberto Rincón Fernández, OSB
MEDITATION
The Death of St Antony
St Athanasius
TESTIMONIES
• The Cemetery of the Benedictine Monastery of Thiên Binh
Nathalie Raymond
• The Cemetery of the seven monks of Tibhirine
Monique Hébrard, journalist
• Koningsakker, the natural Cemetery of a monastic Community
Mother Pascale Fourmentin, OCSO
• The Manufacture of Coffins at New Melleray
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB
OPENING ON THE WORLD
Lessons for life, drawn from Paul facing Sickness and Death
Professor Roger Gil, neurologist
LITURGY
Liturgy for the Dead: Traditions of Vietnam and monastic Rites
Sister Marie-Pierre Như Ý, OSB
MEDITATION
Giving up the Sleep of Death
Brother Irénée Jonnart, OSB
A GLIMPSE OF HISTORY
Anglicans and St Benedict
Fr Nicholas Stebbing, OSB
MONASTIC WORK AND LIFE
The Prayer of our Hands
Brother Bernard Guékam, OSB
MONKS AND NUNS, WITNESSES FOR OUR TIMES
• Dom Ambrose Southey
Dom Armand Veilleux, OCSO
• Mother Anna Maria Cànopi
Sister Maria Maddalena Magni, OSB
• Mother Teresita D’Silva
Mother Nirmala Narikunnel, OSB
NEWS
• To Benefit All. In Praise of the Carta caritatis
Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, OCIST
• International Colloquium: The Carta caritatis
Éric Delaissé
• Introduction to the 12th Latino-American Monastic Assembly (EMLA)
Dom Enrique Contreras, OSB
• Journey to Argentina, October, 2019
Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB