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