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Welcome to the new AIM website - The InterMonastery Alliance.
✅ The site is available in French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, English 🇬🇧, Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹.
🕐 The site will soon be available in Portuguese 🇵🇹.
New Abbot at Rochefort
Dom Dom Gilbert Degros, abbot of Rochefort (Diocese of Namur, Belgium) since 2006, reached the age of retirement mentioned in ST 40.A of...
Jun 1, 20251 min read
Baumgarten - affiliation
Mother Marie-Josée Stocker, abbess of Notre-Dame de Baumgarten (diocese of Strasbourg, France) since 2018, presented her resignation to...
May 14, 20251 min read
Election at Cardeña
On May 7, 2025, Dom Roberto de la Iglesia completed his second term of six years as Abbot of Cardeña (Archdiocese of Burgos, Spain). On...
May 8, 20251 min read
Solemn Profession at Vico monastery
On April 27, 2025, Divine Mercy Sunday Sister Eutropia Firmin Sukum s made solemn profession at the monastery of Vico (Spain). Sister...
May 2, 20251 min read
Notre-Dame de Latroun – In the Fire
This morning, 30 April 2025, as the State of Israel commemorated its fallen soldiers, a succession of fires broke out across the country....
May 1, 20252 min read
New Superior at Tre Fontane
Dom Thomas Georgeon, abbot of La Trappe and Father Immediate of the community of Tre Fontane (diocese of Rome, Italy), has appointed...
Apr 28, 20251 min read
Message from dom Bernardus
Dear brothers and sisters, On Easter Monday, early in the morning, we were all surprised by the death of Pope Francis. His Easter wishes...
Apr 24, 20251 min read
Happy Easter!
So for the monk it an always be Easter, just as it is also always Lent. Of the new man, born of the Passover of Jesus, prayer is the...
Apr 24, 20251 min read
Newsletter formation no. 38
Here is the new newsletter published by the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO) on training: https://ocso.org/wp-content...
Apr 24, 20251 min read
New Abbot at Guadalupe
Dom Peter McCarthy, abbot of O.L. of Guadalupe (diocese of Portland in Oregon, USA) since 1994, presented his resignation to the Abbot...
Apr 1, 20251 min read
Solemn profession in Naši Paní
On March 25, 2025, Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, Sister Francesca Mráčková made solemn profession at the monastery of Naši...
Mar 27, 20251 min read
New Superior at Alloz
Mother Pilar Germán, Pontifical Commissary of the community of Alloz (diocese of Pamplona, Spain) since 2014, offered her resignation as...
Mar 25, 20251 min read
Monastic Commissary at Brialmont
On 11 February 2025, Mother Marie-Pascale Dran, Abbess of Brialmont (diocese of Liège, Belgium), presented her resignation to the Abbot...
Mar 24, 20251 min read
Superior ad nutum at Victoria
On March 24th 2025, Dom John Bosco Kamali completed his second six-year term as abbot of O.L. Victoria (diocese of Masaka, Uganda). On...
Mar 24, 20251 min read
Abbatial Blessing of Dom Vedaste
Mokoto became an abbey at the OCSO General Chapter in September 2022. Since the war prevented us from holding an abbey blessing at Mokoto...
Mar 22, 20251 min read
Newsletter 2 of the 2025 General Chapter
ocso.org Newsletter also available here:
Mar 7, 20251 min read
Solemn Profession at Kibungo
On February 26, 2025, Sister Thérèse Narame made solemn profession at the monastery of Kibungo (Rwanda). Sister Thérèse was born in 1974...
Mar 7, 20251 min read
New superior in Blauvac
Mother Anne-Emmanuelle Devêche, Abbess of Blauvac (archdiocese of Avignon, France) since 1999, reached the age mentioned in St. 40.A of...
Feb 24, 20251 min read
Election in Sorá
On 19 February 2025, the community of Sorá (Archdiocese of Panama, Panama) elected Mother Fabiana Barrera as Titular Prioress of the...
Feb 20, 20251 min read
Election of the Abbot of Huerta
On 17th February 2025, at the end of his fifth abbatial mandate, Dom Isidoro Anguita Fontecha was re-elected Abbot of the Abbey of Santa...
Feb 17, 20251 min read
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