
Dom lambert beauduin, visionnaire et précurseur (1873-1960)
Jacques Mortiau, Raymond Loonbeek - Collection Histoire
Résumé
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Professor R. Aubert (Louvain) called him the 'first theologian of liturgy': Dom Lambert Beauduin, Benedictine of Mont-César in Louvain, founder of a vast movement, in 1909, which still exists to this day. He also introduced into the Catholic Church a new approach to Christians of other persuasions: rather than try to convert the other to one's own religion, listen with humility, get to know, understand, respect and love the other, while clearly stating one's own convictions. In 1925, the foundation of the monastery of the Union at Amay (since transferred to Chevetogne) was the first concrete manifestation of that spirit in the Catholic world. The source of this initiative lay within the Church, the mystical body of Christ. Dom Lambert Beauduin was to have an exceptional and unforeseeable destiny. Before he became a monk, Father Octave Beauduin was a priest in Liege. His path seemed to be clearly marked out: brought up in a rural family with firmly established traditions, he would become a village priest. But this man was exceptionally gifted, probably more than he knew: he possessed a rare ability to perceive the advantages and implications of an idea, to give it momentum and transform it into action. But being a forerunner is never easy! The attraction he held for the young, because of his vision of monastic life, threatened - or was believed to threaten - the stability of an institution whose customs had been somewhat idealised. Moreover, his refusal of proselytism when meeting non-Catholic Christians brought a hoard of complaints from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland... and these complaints found willing ears. This Spirit had to be silenced. Rather than stifling his influence, the pronunciation of his exile opened a new way of action to this visionary priest. He travelled around France, spreading a paschal, Trinitarian and ecclesial spirituality whose ambition was firstly to be a response to God's plan for humanity and secondly, a moral effort centred on the self. Having marked the minds of generations of believers, Dom Lambert Beauduin was able to return in 1951, a guest in the monastery that had exiled him twenty years earlier. He was then almost 78. The religious authorities had not spared him, yet, many witnesses believe, his outstanding charisma made people love the Church.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jacques Mortiau, Raymond Loonbeek |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 26/05/2005 |
Format | 14.4 x 23.4 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 450g |
EAN13 | 9782204078368 |
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