Bulletin

Reflection of forty-three years of experience of concrete life in monasteries. the Bulletin is a privileged place for exchanges, training and common reflection in the Church and society.

1. Publication

Over the past ten years, the sections have been renewed; the modified model. The bulletin is a real Inter-Monastery Alliance.

In-depth articles on subjects constituting monastic life:

Main themes:

2. Editing

Edition: quarterly in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese; extracts in Italian and German.
International editorial committee: meets once a year and solicits authors from all continents.

3. Title of bulletins for the last twenty years

Bulletin 126 - 2024: Monastic Life Today Bulletin 125 - 2023: “All of Life as Liturgy” Bulletin 124 - 2023: The Cistercian General Chapters (OCSO and Ocist, Sep. and Oct. 2022) Bulletin 123 - 2022: Monastic Life and Synodality Bulletin 122 - 2022: Dwelling in the ‘common House’ Bulletin 121 - 2021: Fratelli Tutti, Brotherhood in Monastic Life Bulletin 120 - 2021: Monastic Formation today (Part Two) Bulletin 119 - 2020: Monastic Formation today (Part One) Bulletin 118 - 2020: The Monastic Ideal of Life and Death Bulletin 117 - 2019: Respect the Seniors, Love the Juniors Bulletin 116 - 2019: Mirror of Monastic Life Today Bulletin 115 - 2018: Vietnam, Land of Monastic Renewal Bulletin 114 - 2018: Trappist Monks and Nuns in the 21st Century. General Chapter 2017 Bulletin 113 - 2017: Families and Monastic Life Bulletin 112 - 2017: Female Monasticism (Error title: Congress of Benedictine) Bulletin 111 - 2016: Congress of Benedictine Abbots and Priors, Rome 5-16th September, 2016 Bulletin 110 - 2016: Monasteries and Management Bulletin 109 - 2015: Structures, the Challenge of Change Bulletin 108 - 2015: Listening with the heart Bulletin 107 - 2014: Transmission of the Faith and the Foundations of Monastic Life Bulletin 106 - 2014: Monastic Life and the New Evangelisation Bulletin 105 - 2013: Monastic Life & the AIM, Future Outlook Bulletin 104 - 2013: Networks and Relationships Bulletin 103 - 2012: Live in the Word of God Bulletin 102 - 2012: AIM Jubilee Celebrations Bulletin 101 - 2011: Monastic Formation in the Cistercian Order Bulletin 100 - 2011: The Jubilee of the AIM (1961-2011) Bulletin 99 - 2010: Healing and Saving Bulletin 98 - 2010: Christian Communities in China Bulletin 97 - 2010: Monastic Charism Bulletin 96 - 2009: The Gift of Seniors

Transition

127

Bulletin de l'AIM n° 127, 2024

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Authors

Éditorial

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, osb, Président de l’AIM

Perspectives

• Intervention au Congrès des abbés

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, osb, Président sortant de l’AIM

• Intervention au Congrès des abbés

Dom Gregory Polan, osb, Abbé Primat sortant

• Dom Jeremias Schröder, Abbé Primat

D’après un article de Vatican News

Réflexions

Autorité et liberté

Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, OCist, Abbé général

Ouverture sur le monde

La situation actuelle de l’Inde sur la scène internationale

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, osb

Témoignage

La foi chrétienne dévoilée avec une approche mystique orientale et occidentale par J. Monchanin, H. Le Saux et B. Griffiths

Dom Dorathick Rajan, osb

Liturgie

« Nous avons besoin d’une formation liturgique sérieuse et vitale »

Frère Patrick Prétot, osb

Grandes figures de la vie monastique

• Abbé Notker

Wolf Dom Cyrill Schäfer, osb

• Adieu à dom Notker Wolf

Dom Jeremias Schröder, osb

• Sœur Lazare de Rodorel de Seilhac

Sœur M.-Madeleine Caseau et sœur Fabienne Hyon, osb

Nouvelles

• Voyage en Inde (4-11 février 2024)

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb

• Voyage au Togo (17-24 février 2024)

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb

• Compte rendu de la rencontre des supérieurs monastiques de l’Afrique de l’Ouest francophone

Sœur Thérèse Benoît Kaboré, osb

• Chronique du 21e chapitre général de la congrégation de Subiaco-Mont-Cassin

Dom Josep-Enric Parellada, osb

Monastic life today

126

AIM Bulletin No. 126, 2024

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Authors

Editorial

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB,

President of AIM

Lectio divina

“Go, sell what you have…” (Mt 19, 21ff)

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB

Perspectives

• Monastic life today, answers to the AIM questionnaire

• Summary of the responses to the questionnaire

AIM International Team

News

Travel to Canada and the United States

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB

Reflection

A short essay on the vision visual

Dom Jeremy Driscoll, OSB

Witness

Living a multicultural monastic community

Dom Paul Mark Schwan, OCSO

Art and liturgy

The saga of Santa Maria de Ovila’s Chapter House

Dom Thomas X. Davis, OCSO

Great figures of monastic life

Sister Judith Ann Heble, second moderator of the CIB

Mother Mayor Hickey, OSB

In memory

Mother Lazare de Seilhac (1928-2023)

Benedictine Sisters of Saint-Thierry

Reviews

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM

“All of Life as Liturgy”

125

AIM Bulletin no. 125, 2023

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Authors

Editorial

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb, President of the AIM

Lectio divina

" Peace be with you !”

Dom Adriano Bellini, OSB

Perspectives

• Monastic liturgy, God's Great “Today”

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb

• Saint Macrina, “Her whole life was liturgy”

Sister Véronique Dupont, OSB

• The implementation of the reform of the monastic Liturgy of the Hours in the Brazilian congregation

Dom Jerônimo Pereira Silva, OSB

Reflection

Rites at the heart of the social bond

Mr. Jean-Claude Ravet

Great figures of monastic life

Le Saux-Abhishiktananda, a priesthood in Spirit

Fr. Yann Vagneux, MEP

Art and liturgy

As the story unfolds, “Mary kept these things in her heart”

Dom Ruberval Monteiro, OSB

News

• Journey to the Holy Land, April-May 2023

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB

• Travel to India, February 2023

Sister Christine Conrath, OSB

The Cistercian General Chapters
(OCSO and OCist, September and October 2022)

124

AIM Bulletin no. 124, 2023

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Authors

Editorial

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM

Lectio divina

Luke 17.11-16

Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of OCist

Perspectives

• Speech at the Opening of the second Session of the General Chapter of OCSO

Dom Bernardus Peeters, Abbot General

• Speech of Pope Francis to the members

of the General Chapter of OCSO

• What is most life-giving in the Order today

Sr Ainzane, OCSO

• Opening of the General Chapter of OCist

Dom M-G Lepori, Abbot General

Meditation

The Exemplary Character of Monastic Life

Pope Benedict XVI

Current questions

The Prevention of Abuse in Female Communities

Isabelle Jonveaux, sociologist

Witness

The Grace of Making a Foundation and the Experience of Return

Dom Robert Igo, OSB

Great figures of Monastic Life

• Sr Josephine Mary Miller

Sr Marie-Paule, OCBE

• Blessed Dom Columba Marmion

Fr Réginald-Ferdinand Poswick, OSB

History and Patrimony

The Monastery of Tautra

Sr Hanne-Marie Berentzen, OCSO

Meditation

Homily for the Memoria of St Aelred

Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB

News

• Report on the Session of Ananias

drawn from the chronicles of the session

• DIMMID

Fr William Skudlarek, OSB

• The Association AMTM

Dom J-P Longeat, OSB

• Some of the Projects supported by AIM

Secretariat of the AIM

Monastic Life and Synodality

123

Bulletin No. 123, 2022

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Authors

Editorial

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM

Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina, synodality and theocracy Dom Geraldo González y Lima, OSB

Perspectives

• A Small Beginning of the Synodal Journey in OCSO

Dom Bernardus Peeters, Abbot General

• The Rule of Benedict and Synodality

Mother Andrea Savage, OSB

• Listening with the Ear of the Heart

Sr Jennifer Mechtild Horner, OSB

• The Community of Tibhirine, an example of synodality

Marie-Dominique Minassian

• Challenges to Benedictine Monastic Life in West Africa

Sr Thérèse-Benoît Kaboré, OSB

Monastic life and Economics

The French Monastic Eco-System, an example of a co-operative network

Marie-Catherine Paquier

Liturgy

The Syro-Malabar Liturgy

Dom Clément Ettaniyil, OSB

Great figures of Monastic Life

Mother Pia Gullini

Sr Maria Augusta Tescari, OCSO

News

The Studium of the Priory of Bouaké

Secretariat of the AIM

Dwelling in the ‘common House’

122

AIM Bulletin no. 122, 2022

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Authors

Editorial

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB, President of the AIM

Lectio Divina

The heavens and the earth proclaim the glory of God (Ps 18a)

Mother Nirmala Narikunnel, OSB

Perspectives

• The Concerns of the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation

Dom Gregory Polan, OSB

• A New Development for Monastic Life

Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori (OCist)

Opening on the world

Understanding the Anthropocene

Bernard Lucet

Witness

• France – ecological monasteries

Sister Nathanaelle Lefoulon, OSB

• Celebrating God’s Creation: Planting Trees

Extract of the newsletter of May-July 2021 from the Priory of Manila

Economy and Monastic Life

• Monasteries as centres of an alternative and durable economy

Benoît-Joseph Pons

• The Cellarer according to the Rule of S Benedict

An account of a Conference given at the meeting of MAC by Dom Simon Madeko.

Dom Médard Kimengwa Kitobo

Liturgy

Cistercian monasticism of the Ge’ez Rite

Dom Négusse Woldai, OCist

Great Figures of Monastic Life

Viktor Josef Dammertz, OSB

P. Cyrill Schäffer, OSB

News

• The Benedictus Foundation

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB

• The Evolution of Benedictine Congregations from a Feminine Viewpoint

Mother Franziska Lukas, OSB

• Membership Trends in the Benedictine Confederation 1880-2020

Thomas Piazza and Fr Geraldo González y Lima, OSB

• Report of the Secretary-General of DIM-MID

Fr William Skudlarek, OSB

Fratelli tutti,
Brotherhood in Monastic Life

121

AIM Bulletin no. 121, 2021

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Authors

Éditorial

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb, Président de l’AIM

Méditation

Fratelli tutti, chap. 3 (extraits)

Pape François

Lectio divina

« Un seul Père et vous êtes tous frères » (Mt 23, 8-9)

Dom Olivier-Marie Sarr, osb

Perspectives

Frères selon la règle de saint Benoît

Dom J.-P. Longeat, osb

Méditation

Fratelli tutti, chap. 3 (extraits)

Pape François

Ouverture au monde

Conséquences de la crise actuelle dans la vie des communautés religieuses

Sœur Patricia Murray, ibvm

Grandes figures pour la vie monastique

Dietrich Bonhoeffer et la vie monastique

John W. de Gruchy

Nouvelles

• Iwuru, fondation du monastère de Ewu-Ishan

Le Secrétariat de l’AIM

• Solonka, fondation en Ukraine

Le Secrétariat de l’AIM

• Les moines bénédictins de Shantivanam

Le Secrétariat de l’AIM

Notes de lectures

Bulletin

1. Publication

2. Editing

3. Title of bulletins for the last twenty years

Transition

127

Monastic life today

126

“All of Life as Liturgy”

125

The Cistercian General Chapters(OCSO and OCist, September and October 2022)

124

Monastic Life and Synodality

123

Dwelling in the ‘common House’

122

Fratelli tutti, Brotherhood in Monastic Life

121

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The Cistercian General Chapters
(OCSO and OCist, September and October 2022)

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Brotherhood in Monastic Life