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"Today the concept of truth is viewed with suspicion, because truth is identified with violence. Over history there have, unfortunately, been episodes when people sought to defend the truth with violence. But they are two contrasting realities. Truth cannot be imposed with means other than itself! Truth can only come with its own light. Yet, we need truth. ... Without truth we are blind in the world, we have no path to follow. The great gift of Christ was that He enabled us to see the face of God".Pope Benedict xvi, February 24th, 2012

Sunday, 8 May 2011

IN PRAISE OF THE CARMELITE CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITION





This post is in honour of St Therese and of the Carmelite contemplative tradition, (though there is one Benedictine story from Bulgaria among the videos).   The occasion is our unofficial invitation to give hospitality to the relics of St Therese of Lisieux for two days in October.   Why the Carmelites have suggested it, I am not quite sure.  Perhaps it is because our monastery is the only cloistered religious house for men in Peru.  During the visit, our accent on St Therese will be as a saint of the contemplative and monastic life.   Anyway the Carmelites are being very generous, and we are grateful to them.   We have to apply but know in advance that they have already said "Yes"..







An Eastern Rite Carmelite convent in Bulgaria.   This is its heroic story
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A Benedictine novice for 44 years!!   Another story of faith from Bulgaria.



Carmelite nuns in New Zealand give their testimony.









The Relics of St Therese in England 2009





Carmelite Nuns found a convent north of the Arctic Circle




THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ST TERESA OF AVILA

A Carmelite Foundation in Albania  (dedicated to my abbot)

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I am a Benedictine monk from Belmont Abbey, Hereford. I studied theology at Fribourg University in Switzerland, and was chaplain for many years at Belmont Abbey School, now sadly closed. I spent some time in Whitehaven in the parish. For the last 27 years I have been in Peru,part of the Belmont foundation here, but for most of the time working in parishes. I am now Superior of a monastery which has been founded from Belmont on the outskirts of Lima. I have written two books of theology, the first "The Royal Road to Joy. The Beatitudes and the Mass", published by Gracewing in 2003. The second, "Heaven Revealed. The Holy Spirit and the Mass" will be published in July or August by the same publisher, and I am working on a third. My interests: theology, ecumenism,especially with the Eastern Churches, things pastoral. From 1981 - 1990 I was in Tambogrande 1991 - 1997 in Negritos, Talara 1998 in Harrington, Cumbria 1998 2002 in Cajamarca 2002 till now in the monastery except for 2006 when I was with the Charismatic Renewal in Lima