Benedictine Monks

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Our Benedictine Community arrived to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland from the Abbey of Bec in France in January 1998. Our coming to Northern Ireland is a response to a call addressed by the Church to monasteries of contemplative life to engage themselves in the mission of spiritual ecumenism, rooted in prayer, conversion of heart and charity, in those corners of the world where Christians are divided.

"Beyond all mystery is the mercy of God. It is a love, a mercy that transcends the world, its value and merit. To live by such a love, to reflect it, however numbly, is the test of religious existence."

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

We are happy to suggest for your on-going
reading of the Sacred Scriptures the
programme we ourselves follow at lauds
and vespers.

Trouble has rerturned to Northern Ireland with the start of the summer's marching season. Here, Declan McConville, a friend of the community, recalls the bad days of hid childhood in the lawless Irish borderlands, and how one Protestant girl reached out across the sectarian divide.

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