Biografical notes on Yves Beriault Etty Hillesum Author. Brother Yves was born in May 1947 in Lachine, Province of Quebec. He studied clinical psychology at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He worked as a school psychologist for four years, then as a clinical psychologist in a hospital for five years.
At the age of 36, he asked to join the Dominican Order. He made his novitiate in Quebec City and his simple profession on August 8, 1984. His philosophical and theological studies were at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and at the Dominican University College in Ottawa. From 1988 to 1999, he was a pastoral animator at the University of Montreal and taught for four years at the Dominican Pastoral Institute; from 1994 to 1997, he was novice master in Montreal.
Career
Since 1997, he has been responsible for the Province’s website. After a sabbatical in Rome, he opened the website “Spirituality 2000”. In 2001-2002, he was Director of IDI and Promoter of the Internet for the Order in Rome. From 2002 to 2009, he was again Master of Novices, and in 2009-2010 he was also Master of Novices in Kigali, Rwanda, and from 2010 to 2014 in Quebec, Canada.
In Quebec City, he was vicar at Saint-Dominique Church from 2012 to 2018. He is Vicar of the Prior Provincial from 2018 to 2021. Elected prior to the Priory of St. John the Baptist in Ottawa in June 2018 and re-elected in 2021. He was pastor of the conventual parish in 2018-2022. Appointed Vicar of the Master of the Order for Canada in 2022, he was elected Prior Provincial on 7 June 2022.
Contact Yves Beriault
Listen to this conversation in French with Catherine Aubin (Radio Vatican):
Sœur Catherine Aubin s’entretient avec Yves Beriault, prieur provincial de la Province Saint-Dominique du Canada, pour son livre «Seul l’amour a de l’avenir», recueillant les témoignages d’Etty Hillesum, jeune Juive disparue dans la nuit de la Shoah, et de Christian de Chergé, moine cistercien exécuté avec six confrères de Tibhirine, en Algérie, en 1996.
Bibliography
- Etty Hillesum, Témoin de Dieu dans l’abîme du mal. Montréal: Médiaspaul, 2010, 2018².
- Etty Hillesum. Testimone di Dio nell’abisso del male. Paoline Editoriale Libri, Milano, 2013.
- The Invincible Hope of Christian de Chergé and Etty Hillesum. In Reading in Etty Hillesum Context, 361-370.
See this post on Reading in Etty Hillesum ContextWritings, Life, and Influences of a Visionary Author. Edited by Klaas Smelik, Gerrit Van Oord, and Jurjen Wiersma.
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