Thanks

 

The Churches that sent their representatives or messages of fraternal participation are even more numerous; they may be found on the website of the community.
The bishops who followed or visited the conference, among them cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Secretary of State of His Holiness and dean of the College of Cardinals, whom we thank for the great attention that he wished to show towards the participants of this conference, and bishop Mansueto Bianchi of Pistoia, president of the Commission for ecumenism and dialogue of the Italian Bishops’ Conference; bishop Gabriele Mana  of Biella, bishops Arrigo Miglio and Massimo Giustetti, always attentive to the initiatives of our community; metropolitans Georges of Mount Lebanon and Paul of Aleppo of the Patriarchate of Antioch, whose great suffering for the situation in Syria we know and to whom we are close with ardent intercession to the Lord; bishop Porfirje of Jegar of the Serbian Orthodox Church, auxiliary of bishop Irinej of Novi Sad, very dear to us, and igumen of the Kovil monastery, with which we are bound in fraternal friendship; metropolitan Grigorije of Veliko T?rnovo and bishop Boris of Agatonica, igumen of the Ba?ka monastery, of the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria, always punctually present at these our conferences; metropolitan Chrysostomos of Messinia of the Orthodox Church of Greece, who opened our sessions with his paper; retired bishop Serafim of Sendai of the Orthodox Church in Japan.

The speakers, who have offered us papers of great spiritual quality and intellectual passion, have known how to keep alive the attention of an assembly of over 250 persons during these days.

The members of the scientific committee.

The interpreters: Andrei Bourtsev, Ania Worontzoff, Ekaterini Kasimova-Zuchra, Maria Giuseppina Erba Sain, Leonardo Paleari, Giovanni Bonavia, and Gabriele Pentzikis.

The technician.

The friends who faithfully return, support, and accompany with prayer our conferences.

All the participants: good-bye till next year!

Finally:

Like every year, so the Acts of the 18th Conference of last year have come out on the topic of Communion and solitude.

For the theme of our next conference — which will be the twentieth — and the choice of speakers, the scientific committee will meet on 6–7 November; your suggestions are really welcome.

The dates: we will keep this period at the beginning of September, from 5 to 8; the weather seems also to be favorable, as we have seen in these days spent together.

Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose

THE WORD OF GOD
IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE