Bulletin 124 - 2023
The Cistercian General Chapters
(OCSO and OCist, September and October 2022)
Contents
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 IN 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
Secretariat of the AIM
• Some of the Projects supported by AIM
Secretariat of the AIM