The profound conviction that all Christians are invisibly bound together by their Baptism in the Risen Christ drove Dom Lambert Beauduin to embark upon the adventure of ecumenism, and in 1925 to found the Benedictine "monastery of unity", which subsequently became the monastery of Chevetogne in Belgium. It pioneered the way we still talk about ecumenism, and its sustained work to this day is only due to the stubborn determination of this man and his followers, convinced of the enrichment and benefit offered to Christianity by this unique experiment. A single monastic community, worshipping in the rite and tradition of both the Latin West and the Byzantine East, with nearly a century of engagement with Orthodox, Anglican, Reformed and fellow Catholic Christian in faithful pursuit of the reconciliaiton of Christians and the unity of Christ's Church, Chevetogne is a Catholic monastery unlike any other in Europe.
A KTO/ COMMUNE IMAGE MEDIA (c) 2015 Production. A Film by Alexia Veriter for KTOTV. Subtitles in English (c) 2016 thanks to a generous grant from the Catholic League
18 янв 2018
