This year, for our annual retreat, Father Damien-Marie, of the Community of the Transfiguration, led us to the heights of contemplation of the mystery of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, dear to the hearts of the monks, making us admire the life and writings of Saint Bede the Venerable, Benedictine Abbot of Saint-Ceolfrid, and of Saint Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, summarizing their teaching to remind us of the means of entering into this contemplation. He has not forgotten the beautiful texts of the Catholic liturgy of the Eastern rite, the knowledge of which is particularly cultivated by his community, full of apostolic ardor, which prays so much for the conversion of Easterners to the unity of the Catholic Church.