Tag: Monte Cassino
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Montecassino
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams visited the Benedictine abbey of Montecassino on Monday, the final stage of his 3 day visit to Italy and the Vatican. Over the weekend, the Anglican leader had an audience with Pope Benedict and attended Papal Vespers at the Church of San Gregorio al Celio marking the millennium… Read More ›
Monk-reformer St. Peter Damian celebrated Feb. 21
Denver, Colo., Feb 19, 2012 / 09:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Feb. 21, Catholics honor Saint Peter Damian, a Benedictine monk who strove to purify the Church during the early years of its second millennium. In his Sept. 9, 2009 general audience on the saint, Pope Benedict XVI described him as “one of the most… Read More ›
Let Us Listen First of All to the Voice of Monte Cassino
What can it say to us, what does it want to say to us, this outstanding monument of religious spirit and of humanity? Three times it was destroyed and three times it rose again from its ruins, remaining a mystical centre of inexpressible value for Italy, Europe and the world. There came up here the… Read More ›
An Invitation to Interiorness
In short, therefore, it can be said that St Benedict’s message is an invitation to interiorness. Man must first of all enter himself, he must know himself deeply, he must discover within himself the aspiration to God and traces of the Absolute. The theocentric and liturgical character of the social reform advocated by St Benedict… Read More ›
St. Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monastism
[St. Benedict] . . . perfected the form of this project at Monte Cassino and wrote it down in the “Rule”, his only work that has come done to us. Seeking among the ashes of the Roman Empire first of all the Kingdom of God, Benedict perhaps unknowingly scattered the seed of a new civilization… Read More ›