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It is with sadness that we convey the news of Br Terry’s death on 18 September. The funeral was held on Wednesday, 2 October at 11am; Vigil on 1 October at 7pm, both in the monastery chapel. Br Terence Kavenagh OSB was born in Sydney in 1946, educated at De La Salle College, Ashfield and […]

As the numbers at Arcadia decrease and age increases, there is a new collaboration between the Australian and Sri Lankan monasteries. The monks in Sri Lanka are more numerous and of a wider age range, and are prepared to send some members to Arcadia to help continue our work. This echoes the origins of Arcadia

Fr Simon Aloisi was born on 26 October 1936 in that far northern region of Italy known to the Italians as Alto Adige, and to its German-speaking majority as the South Tyrol (Süd Tirol). His father, Gregorio, was a Sicilian policeman, and a member of the paramilitary “carabinieri”, just one of the many Italian officials