Père Jacques ter STEEGE o.c.s.o. (1929 – 2013)

Pray for Father Jacques, better known at Latroun, friend during Donald’s visit

Kasanza

Friday, 26 April 2013 15:30

April 20, 2013 : Father Jacques ter Steege was born in 1929 in Rotterdam

(The Netherlands). He entered Achel in 1951, made his solemn profession in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1956. 

He was sent to Kasanza (RDC) in 1959 and made stability there. 

He lived in the Monastery of Latroun (Israël) since 1994. 

Father was 84 years old, had been in monastic vows for 61 years and 56 years a priest when the Lord called him.

Père Jacques ter STEEGE

o.c.s.o.

(1929 – 2013)

Père Jacques ter STEEGE, qui vient de nous quitter à l’âge de 84 ans, a vécu parmi nous à Latroun à peine 19 ans, soit la dernière tranche de sa vie. Il nous arriva le 09.10.1994, croyant trouver un monastère dont le climat soit adapté à sa santé. Il ne se trompait pas. Il s’est intégré facilement à notre communauté, mais il a tenu à garder son appartenance can ………..

OBITUARY in Latroun Chronique 

Sister Catherine Regan ocso died 19 Dec 2012

Sister Catherine Regan OCSO

Whitland Abbey

  

December 19, 2012 : Sister Catherine Regan was born in 1935 in Tranent, East Lothian (Scotland). She entered Stapehill in 1960 and made her solemn profession in 1965. Sister was 78 years old and had been in monastic vows for 50 years when the Lord called her. 

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Welcome to Holy Cross Abbey, Whitland. Holy Cross Abbey is set on the side of a hill overlooking a broad valley with the Preseli Hills as a backdrop beyond. It is a place of peace and great natural beauty and provides a perfect environment for a monastic life of prayer and praise: a place of rest and refreshment for those who visit us. We are about 5 hours from London, 2 hours from Cardiff, by road or rail, but a million miles away if you compare the bustle of capital city with the gentle landscape of Pembrokeshire in West Wales. We belong to a world- wide Order of Cistercians, both men and women. You can find information about other houses of our Order by visiting www.ocso.org Website:  www.hcawhitland.co.uk

OCSO Menology Month of November

Father Ambrose Conway

Fr. Ambrose Roscrea 1946 to join Nunraw

Father Ambrose Conway

Father Ambrose

John Basil Conway

born 13 March 1906

entered Roscrea in 1925

ordained Priest 1933

founder to Nunraw 1946

died 28 November 1986

Memorials

	Biography
	Community Chronicle
	Final Appreciation

 1. Biographical Details . . .

http://www.nunraw.com/sanctamaria/ambrose.htm  

OCSO

Menology

for the

Month

of November

NOVEMBER 1

Guido + c. 1145

St Bernard's eldest brother, he was already married and a man of some importance when Bernard urged him to enter the monastery with his brothers. Since his wife would not give her consent, he resolved to give up his position and lead the laborious life of a peasant. But when his wife was stricken with a grave illness, she sent for Bernard, sought pardon and agreed to let Guido enter Citeaux, while she herself became a nun. Guido died at Pontigny on his way back from founding a new monastery near Bourges.

Spinela

A nun of Arouca, Portugual.

Bernard Rosa + 1696

Abbot of Grussau in Silesia, he was one of the three prominent men who helped preserve the Catholic faith in that region.

NOVEMBER 2

Fulcard  12th century

A lay-brother of Clairvaux, a man of great purity and simplicity, he was herdsman at one of the monastery granges. Once in a dream he saw the Lord Jesus holding a goad in his gentle hand and leading the oxen at the other end of the yoke. This filled him with a great desire to see his fellow-worker in heaven. Soon afterwards he was seized with illness and seven days later his desire was happily realized. After his death, St Bernard confidently declared that he walked with God and that it was truly God who worked through him.

NOVEMBER 3

Anne Van Aelst + 1595

Her father was a Moslem convert who had been made Lord of Alost or Aelst. Anne entered Roosendael and became abbess in 1575. However, the following year her convent was pillaged and the nuns were obliged to flee. They took refuge in Malines where they lived in extreme poverty, but also in fidelity to their religious vocation.

Les Moniales, p. 101

NOVEMBER 4

Esther d'Audibert de Lussan + 1672

Named abbess of Valsauve by Pope Clement VIII in 1605, she governed the abbey for sixty-seven years and completely renewed it, exteriorly and interiorly.

Les Moniales, p. 101

NOVEMBER 5

St Malachy  1095-1148

Born and raised in Armagh, Ireland, he became the disciple of a hermit named Eimar. He was ordained at twenty-five and five years later named bishop of Connor. By his preaching and fostering the saramental life, he was instrumental in turning a heathen people back to a Christian way of life. St Celsus named him his successor as metropolitan of Armagh. However, Malachy met with much opposition, and it was not until 1134 that he could take over the diocese. Here too he restored peace and discipline and furthered the Christian life.

In 1140 he went to Rome to receive the pallium. On his way he visited Clairvaux and began a lasting friendship with St Bernard. Malachy even wished to become a Cistercian, had not the Pope forbidden it. Instead he left four of his disciples to be trained in the Cistercian life and then return to Ireland where they founded the abbey of Mellifont. On a second journey to Rome, Malachy again stopped at Clairvaux. There he became ill and on All Souls' Day he died in the arms of St Bernard and was buried at Clairvaux.

Life by St Bernard, CF 10; MBS, p. 288