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Monastère de la Théophanie | |
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| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Denomination | Melkite Greek Catholic Church |
| Established | 1964 |
| Diocese | Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France |
| Abbess | Mother Christophora |
| Site | |
| Location | Aubazines, France |
| Public access | Yes |
Holy Theophany Monastery is an French monastic community of woman. Under the canon law of the Eastern Catholic Churches the monastery is a self-governing (sui juris) monastery within the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France, and located in Aubazines, France. The current hegumenia of the monastery is Mother Christophora Fenton.
The Monastery of Theophany originated[1] from the community of Poor Clares in the south of France who had left to found a community in Morocco, Rabat in 1933 with the aim of giving their lives to convert the Arab Muslim world. In the 1950s , the sisters left for a few months to train postulants in Nazareth where a piece of land was finally granted to them. There they founded what would become the Melkite Greek Catholic Monastery of the Annunciation, where they were eventually joined by other sisters from Morocco. In 1962, they entered the Melkite Church by adopting the Byzantine Rite.
Due to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the sisters were searching for new, more peaceful location and settled in August 1964 at the Obazine Abbey which had not been inhabited for three years.
On July 22, 1976, during the celebration in Obazine Abbey, with the participation of Patriarch Maximos V, the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches recognized as a Melkite Greek Catholic monastery as Sui iuris .
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Four years after the death (1981) of Mother Veronica, the nuns moved into the Abbey's "farm" and built a Byzantine chapel in the old barn.
In 1989 majority of the nuns led by led by Reverend Mother Christine and Father Paul Bondu, due to frustration with charismatic renewal that started in the monastery, converted to Orthodox Church of Antioch, and founded a Burning Bush Monastery in Villardonnel, France.
His Beatitude Patriarch Gregory III, accompanied by the Bishop of Tulle, His Excellency Bishop Bernard Charrier, visited their monastery, and celebrated the Divine Liturgy there on July 10 and 11, 2007. Shortly after this patriarchal visit, the monastery's property was legally transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate.
The nuns strive to promote a better understanding of Eastern Christian spirituality, participate in ecumenical reflection meetings, lead talks on the theological meaning of icons, the Fathers of the Church, and the meaning of beauty in the Divine Liturgy. Services are celebrated in French, but with the Greek and Arabic melodies of the Melkite tradition.
Today, only three nuns remain in Obazine, led by Mother Christophora and Father Elisée Marzin.
References
[edit]- Église Grecque-Melkite Catholique Moniales d'Aubazine 3 12 2011[2]
- Église Grecque-Melkite Catholique Moniales Grecques-Melkites Catholiques de Tazert et de Nazareth 13 5 2013[3]