The fifth East-West Monastic Meeting, including an Orientale Lumen Dialogue Day, took place on 4 October 2004 at Minster Abbey. The theme was, Healing and Reconciliation: Dialogue for the Future. It celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Vatican II Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, and aimed to explore ways of developing Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. The principal contributions included:
- The Monastic Contribution to East-West Dialogue, Dom Hugh Gilbert OSB, Abbot of Pluscarden
- An Ecumenical Role Played by Monastic Literature: the case of St Isaac the Syrian, Dr Sebastian Brock, University of Oxford
- Progress in the Official Dialogue between the Holy See and the Syriac Orthodox Church
- Archbishop Kevin MacDonald, Archbishop of Southwark
- Archbishop Youhanna Ibrahim, Syriac Orthodox Church
- Archbishop Paul Yazigi, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
- Anthony O'Mahoney, Lecturer, Heythrop College, University of London
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