Volume 28, Number 1, February 1998

MONASTIC INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE - MID Establishes Goals

The board of directors of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue met at St. Benedict's in Snowmass, CO, October 10-13, 1997. There were several items on the agenda regarding publications and organizational matters, as well as planning for the future. Previous goals were examined to determine what had been done to fulfill them and new goals were explored. The board set forth a list of goals to be implemented in the coming years, which are as follows:

To carry out our mission of intermonastic dialogue, as appointed by our monasteries and Vatican charge by:

• reflecting on the Gethsemani Encounter and furthering the dialogue around the mystery of suffering and the cross;
• sustaining our dialogue with Tibetan Buddhists and broadening our dialogue with Buddhists of the Zen and Theravadan traditions and widening our dialogue to Hindu and Islamic traditions;
• emphasizing the Christian meditation practices of lectio divina and contemplation in the dialogue with Eastern meditation traditions;
• training our board, contact persons, superiors, lay collaborators and young scholars on East-West dialogue issues and dialogue practices.

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