East-West Monastic Meeting II, Minster Abbey, Autumn 1998

The Orientale Lumen movement in England was initiated as a series of East-West Christian Monastic Meetings by the community of Roman Catholic Benedictine nuns at Minster Abbey. The first took place in 1996 at St Mildred's Priory, Minster Abbey, Kent; the second in 1998.

The Meeting included a celebration of the Leave-Taking of the Holy Cross at the Orthodox parish in Margate. The talks included

• Monasticism in Egypt, Fr Asheia al-Baramosy, a Coptic Orthodox priest-monk from the recently founded Coptic community at Birchington, Kent. This was an illustrated address on his home monastery and the revival of monasticism in Egypt
• Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Abbot Hugh of Pluscarden
• Repentance in the Rule of St Benedict, Mother Mary John OSB, Malling Abbey, Kent
• Saint Maria Skobtsiva among the poor in the Paris of World War II, Dr Philip Boobyer, University of Kent at Canterbury
• Prisoners of Conscience in 20th Century Russia: Suffering and Spirituality, Dr Philip Boobyer
• The Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor, Fr Maximus, Greek Orthodox Church

A short account of the Meeting was subsequently given by Sister Benedict Gaughan OSB in One in Christ, volume 40, no. 3, April 2005.

Orientale Lumen II, June 1998, Washington DC

Here is the link to OL II, on the Letter of Pope John Paul II On Ecumenism, Ut Unum Sint.

The published proceedings can be ordered from Eastern Christian Publications here.