Our presence among the Churches and among men

Other brothers and sisters of the community have also carried out a service of preaching at local churches and religious communities in Italy and abroad and have spoken at church or monastic conferences. Br Luciano took part first at the conference of Italian abbesses in Rome and then at the Benedictine inter-congregational conference organized in Norcia for about 70 novices, postulants, and professed under three years of Italian men’s and women’s monasteries. At Oria he gave a few talks to the diocesan assembly and at the retreat of the diocesan priests, while in Lisbon he offered a course on the psalms. Br Goffredo, besides continuing to contribute as an expert in the work of revising the Roman missal, participated in various conferences with reflections of a liturgical nature: at the conference of Italian Caritas at San Benedetto del Tronto; at the day on the Word, exegesis and celebration, organized by the Theological studium Antonianum of Bologna; at the liturgical week of the Institute of Orthodox theology Saint Serge of Paris; at the 56th national liturgical week at Fabriano, at the conference organized in Milan jointly by the Italian Bishops’ Conference and the Ambrosian Church in view of a new edition of the evangeliarium. Br Matthias went to Lyons to participate in the work of the ecumenical association Amitié œcuménique internationale, to which he contributed several talks on monasticism and ecumenism. Finally, br Matteo traveled to London, to the Benedictine Ealing abbey for the annual meeting of the coordinators of European commissions on Monastic interreligious dialogue as a representative of the Italian section, which is coordinated by fr Cipriano Carini.