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But what will become of the place once the monks are no longer there? A year ago, a think tank was created around the future of Clerlande. “Rather than letting time pass and enduring a future that we do not want, we have decided to take the leadexplains Béthune’s father. I invited representatives from UCLouvain, the Church and friends to reflect. Because we have a responsibility: the University asked us fifty years ago to provide a center of more intense spiritual life here. We want to continue it“.
We wish to stay here, not only in cohabitation, but in collaboration with those who would gradually come to replace us
There is therefore no question for the buyer of the site to turn it into a luxury hotel or a sports center. The community has set a whole series of criteria so that the spirit of the place is maintained following their disappearance: maintain the spirituality of the place, possibly open it to other spiritualities, keep its vocation of hospitality, remain a place of prayer , but also a place to live. The monks’ other wish is to be able to end their old days there. “We wish to stay here, not only in cohabitation, but in collaboration with those who would gradually come to replace us“, they ask.
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