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Showing posts with label welcome party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welcome party. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2007

welcome party for Postulant John The Baptist and a monk in Simple Vows, Dom Anselmo, OSB

The other night, November 27th, we welcomed a postulant who arrived in that same day day from Thien Phouc Monastery in Vietnam. He will try to live with us and hopefully be able to persevere in his monastic journey with the community of monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery.
Dom John the Baptist ( i failed to catch him to ask his Vietanamese name ) is a former nurse before he joined his community in Vietnam.




On the other hand, a week before Dom John D Baptist arrived, a Mexican Junior monk from one of our foundations in Mexico came over to finally join the ranks in our community. Dom Anselmo is 48 yrs old and a practicing gynecologist before he came to the Monastery of La Soledad in Mexico, but he left his profession after years to join La Soledad Monastery.

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

welcome party for the Abbot and a send-off party for Dom John Vianney and our Tibetan monk guest

i 'm back.

The welcome party for the Abbot who just arrived yesterday night from Polokwane Africa (please take time to read My Abbot's Page for details of his Africa visit) ended with all of us having enjoyed the one-hour 'break' from our monastic routine.

I also learned that Dom John Vianney (Vietnames) will be leaving us and as well as the Tibetan Buddhist monk brother Asonam tomorrow. So the occasion that we just had was a mixture of a welcome-despidida party!

Some of the images I got for you....
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