Benedictine Wisques Abbey Returns To The Traditional Rite. Resettlement Agreed By Fontgombault Abbey With Bishop of Arras.

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The interior of Fontgombault Abbey, France.

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(Paris). The Bishop of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer, Jean-Paul Jaeger, and the Abbot, Dom Jean Pateau, of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault, have sealed the takeover of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Paul, Wisques. The Benedictine Abbey of Wisques will be re-populated by Monks from Fontgombault from the end of the year. Therefore, the Abbey will return to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

As previously reported, a group of Monks from Fontgombault spent several weeks in January, at Wisques Abbey, to consider a takeover. It is difficult to ensure the survival of the Abbey of Saint Paul, Wisques, by the local Convent Monks. The average age of the Monks, in Wisques, is more than 75 years old.

Wisques Abbey was founded in the second half of the 19th-Century by Monks of Fontgombault Abbey.

The Abbey of Wisques thus joins the ranks of the Monasteries which celebrate Holy Mass and the Divine Office (the entire Liturgy) in the traditional form and Gregorian chant is maintained.

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