West Kalimantan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:05:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg West Kalimantan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 West Kalimantan: a Trappist monastery in the middle of the forest https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/08/29/west-kalimantan-a-trappist-monastery-in-the-middle-of-the-forest/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:50:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=151119 The Cistercians of the strict observance, or Trappists, yesterday inaugurated their fourth monastery in the country, located in the village of Penggadungan, in the district of Sungai Melayu, West Kalimantan. The village where the new monastery is located in a remote area in the middle of the Indonesian forest, a three and a half hour Read more

West Kalimantan: a Trappist monastery in the middle of the forest... Read more]]> The Cistercians of the strict observance, or Trappists, yesterday inaugurated their fourth monastery in the country, located in the village of Penggadungan, in the district of Sungai Melayu, West Kalimantan.

The village where the new monastery is located in a remote area in the middle of the Indonesian forest, a three and a half hour drive from Ketapang and where public facilities are still very limited. The property was purchased decades ago by the then-bishop Blasius Pujaraharja.

The bishop of the Ketapang diocese, Bishop Pius Riana Prapdi, blessed the new facility together with Fr Isaac Majoor, Dutch Trappist leader of Konigshoeven Abbey in Tilburg. The ceremony was celebrated in the Dayak cultural tradition.

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