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AIM - United States Secretariate of the Alliance for International Monasticism

The Alliance for International Monasticism (AIM USA) is an organization of approximately 130 Benedictine / Cistercian Monasteries of men and women in the United States and Canada and over 450 communities in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe who follow the Rule of Benedict.
 
The AIM USA Secretariat provides spiritual, educational, and financial assistance to monasteries in developing countries to enable them to be centers of life for others.
 
Click here for definitions of some common monastic terms.
Click here to learn more about AIM USA.
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Featured Monastery

Borrempalem, India

Fr Yesudasu Gorre is a Parish Priest at St John's Orphanage in Borrempalem, India. AIM-USA has worked with him to support his efforts in the community.

Bi-annual

Alliance for International Monasticism Newsletters

2024 Vol 33 No 1

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Translated Newsletters available in
Spanish, Portuguese and French

A Prayer of AIM for Monastic Life

O loving God,
We ask your blessing,
on all monastic men and women,
especially those who live and work
in the most destitute parts of the world.

Help us to become people of prayer and peace.
May we be visible signs that strangers
can live together in God's love.
Give us hearts wide enough to welcome
the traveler, the outcast, the neighbor.

Enable us to listen to and learn from
the people we serve, especially the poorest.
May out communities be models of wise stewardship,
of dignified human labor, of sacred leisure,
and of reverence for all living things.

Above all, O God, may a monastic presence
in the world be a constant witness of justice,
compassion and hope to all. Amen.

by Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB

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