Editorial

Abbot Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB, President of AIM

On the subject of AIM

• The New Statutes of AIM

Abbot Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB

• Summary of the Financial Report

Father Charbel Pazat de Lys, OSB

In Memoriam

Father Martin Neyt, OSB, former president of AIM

The Editorial Team

Lectio divina

Homily on the healing of Simon’s mother-in-law (Lk 4:38-44)

Dom Bernardus Peeters, OCSO

Perspectives

• “The Love of sharing and the sharing of Love”

Dom Bernardus Peeters, OCSO

• The Cistercian Charism in Today’s World

Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, OCist

• Intervention on the Cistercian charism at the OCSO General Chapter

Mother Elizabeth Mary Mann, OCBE

• Intervention on the Cistercian charism at the OCSO General Chapter

Mother N. Ghijs, Bernard. Oudenaarde

529-2029: The Jubilee of Benedictine life

• The Benedictine Jubilee

Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder, OSB

• Becoming Pilgrims in Time

Abbot Antonio Luca Fallica, OSB

• Introducing the Jubilee Book

Mr. Adam Simon, Project Coordinator

• “Awake!”

Abbot Benedetto Nivakoff, OSB

Great figures of monastic life

• Dame Hilda Wood, OSB

Benedictines of Stanbrook

• Father Augustine Baker, OSB

Sister Laurentia Johns, OSB

News

• The Holy Year at Saint Paul Outside the Walls

Father Ludovico Torrisi, OSB

• 13th Meeting of BEAO

According to the account of Brother N. Koss, OSB

• 13th Meeting of EMLA

Sister Cristina Lavinhati, OSB

• 1300 Years of the Abbey of Novalesa

Father Michael-Davide Semeraro, OSB

• The Monastery of Morne Saint-Benoît

Father Jacques Montfort, OSB

• The Philippines during the tropical storms

Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing

• The Situation in Kiribati

Sister Megan Kahler, OSB

Editorial

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB,
President of AIM

Meditations

• Peace in the Rule of St Benedict
The Editorial Team

• “Peace I leave you, my peace I give you” (Jn 14,27)
Dom Maksymilian R. Nawara, OSB

• The mosaic in the apse of the basilica of St Clement in Rome
Fr. Alex Echeandía, OSB

Witnesses

• The monastery of Santa Maria de la Paz: from Nicaragua to Panama
The nuns of Sorá, OCSO

• The Abbey of Mokoto (DRC)
Dom Bernard Oberlin, OCSO

• Living in a culture of violence – the Nigerian experience
Fr. Peter Eghwrudjakpor, OSB

• The monastery of Bethlehem: a monastery at the foot of the wall
Monastery of the Emmanuel OSB

• Fons PacisMonastery: peace in insecurity and uncertainty
Mother Marta Luisa Fagnani, OCSO

• The silent cries of Madhya Pradesh
Sr. Asha Thayyil, OSB

• Seeds of Hope Amid Suffering
Sr. Maria Liudmyla Kukharyk, OSB

• The hardest war…
Patriarch Athenagoras

Liturgy

“Vision of peace” - Liturgy and architecture
Fr. Gérard Gally

Great figures of monastic life

• Mother Máire Hickey, OSB
Website of Kylemore Abbey

• Dom Mamerto Menapace, OSB
Cuadernos monásticos 234

News

• The new AIM secretariat
The editing team

• Extract from the report of DIM-MID to the Congress of Abbots
Fr. William Skudlarek, OSB

• The new Secretary General of DIM-MID
Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB

Projects supported by AIM

Mahitsy, Umkon, EMLA

Editorial

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB, President of AIM

Perspectives

• Updating Constitutions

Fr. Aitor Jimenez

• The revision of juridical texts in the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation

Dom Étienne Ricaud, OSB

• The CIB

Sister Lynn McKenzy, OSB

• The Federation of Notre-Dame de la Rencontre (Our Lady of the Encounter)

Sister Marie-Benoît Kaboré, OSB

• Statute on the Accompaniment of Fragile Communities and on the Suppression of a Monastery

Official text, OCSO

• Questions for two new presidents of congregations

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB

Witness

To Find Communion in Change

Br. J.-B. Donleavy et Fr. J. George, OSB

Reflection

Reflection on the presence/absence of monks in the life of the Church today

Fr. Manuel Nin i Güell, osb, Exarch

A page of history

The Council of Nicaea

Mr. Jérôme de Leusse

Great figures of monastic life

Dom Kevin O’Farrell

Dom David Tomlins, ocso

News

• The millennium of Montserrat

Fr. Bernat Julio, OSB

• Golden Jubilee of the  ISBF

Dom James Mylackal, OSB

• Silver jubilee of the Monastery of Teok

Fr. Sibi Joseph Vattapara, OSB

• Dom Javier Suárez

Information about Sankt Ottilien

• The Commission for China

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB

Editorial

Dom Bernard Lorent Tayart, OSB, President of AIM

Perspectives

• Intervention at the Abbots’ Congress

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

• Intervention at the Abbots’ Congress 

Dom Gregory Polan, OSB, Outgoing Abbot Primate

• Dom Jeremias Schröder, Abbot Primate

From an article for Vatican News

Reflection

Authority and Freedom

Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, OCist, Abbot General

Opening on the World

India’s current position on the international stage : a key player

Dom Jean-Pierre Longeat, OSB

Witness

Christian Faith Unveiled with an Eastern and Western Mystical Approach, by J. Monchanin, H. Le Saux and B. Griffiths

Dom Dorathick Rajan, OSB

Liturgy

“We are in need of a serious and dynamic liturgical formation.”

Brother Patrick Prétot, OSB

Great figures of Monastic life

• AAbbot Notker Wolf

Dom Cyrill Schäfer, OSB

• Farewell to Dom Notker Wolf

Dom Jeremias Schröder, OSB

• Sister Lazare de Rodorel de Seilhac 

Sister M. Madeleine Caseau and Sister Fabienne Hyon, OSB

News

• Journey to India (4-11 February 2024)

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB

• Journey to Togo (17-24 February 2024)

Dom J.-P. Longeat, OSB

• Report on the meeting of monastic superiors of French-speaking West Africa

Sister Thérèse Benoît Kaboré, OSB

• Chronicle of the 21st General Chapter of the Congregation of Subiaco-Monte Cassino 

Dom Josep-Enric Parellada, OSB

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

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

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

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

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

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