... on your 80th Birthday and Anniversary of Profession.
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From: Nivard
To: donald
Sent: Sat, 13 November, 2010 9:29:20
Subject: All Benedictine Saints
All Benedictine Saints - Profession Day (+ Jubilee 80, 12th)
A Jubilee is a day of joy and thanks-giving for all the blessings received over the years. Heartfelt thanks to God our Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thanks to family and ancestors, both natural and supernatural.
I thank especially Abbot Mark and the Community here at Nunraw for the showers of blessings I’ve received over the past three years.
Today is my birthday as a Cistercian.
I made both professions into the hands of Dom Malachy. He will now be smiling on us all from above, as is dear Fr Luke whom we laid to rest yesterday.
Our contemplative life cultivates our intimacy with the Lord. It embodies everything that we have ever desired. We live it for the sheer joy of that intimacy. This love binds us together in an inseparable and deliberately chosen companionship.
O God, your Son promised to those who leave everything to follow him a hundredfold in this world and in the world to come, eternal life. Helped by the prayers of St Benedict and all the saints who lived by his Rule, may we be strangers to worldly desires and enjoy the riches of your love.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
Bidding Prayer:
Father, you called us to this way of life in your Church. In it may we love, honour and follow your Son to eternal life in the kingdom you promise.
Through Christ our Lord.
Prayer after Communion,
Let us pray.
Almighty God, we pray that strengthened by the power of this sacrament, we may learn by the example of St Benedict and his disciples always to seek you above all things, and to bear already in this world the likeness of Christ, the new Adam, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. 
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