Dear Friends and Benefactors
Today we are compelled to come and ask you for help for the remainder of our work, some of which has not yet been paid for. We have undertaken the restoration of the hostel; the cells are finished thanks to…
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Solemnity of Saint Benedict
On July 11, 2022, we had the joy of receiving our bishop, Monsignor Antonio Suetta, for the summer feast of Saint Benedict, as well as the town councillors, our mayor Mario Conio and his deputy Espedito Longobardi; several priests whose…
FAITHFULLNESS
Following the Motu Proprio Traditionis custodes of July 16, 2021 and the response to the dubia of the Congregation for Divine Worship of December 4, 2021 (promulgated on December 18): We, Benedictine monks of the Immaculate, of the Monastery of…
We pray for all our friends
It is with gratitude that we prayed for all the families of our friends and benefactors, during our weekly walk in Bussana, and particularly for all those whom we could not thank in particular, not having their contact details: email…
Traditionis custodes: what merit ?
All the faithful have been acquainted with the recent Motu Proprio from Rome which goes straight to the heart and sets out to make Catholic Tradition disappear in what is most sacred: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to…
Feast of St Benedict
This year, because of the occurrence of Passion Sunday, the feast of St Benedict was transferred to Tuesday 23rd March. Mgr Antonio Suetta paid us the grace and joy of his presence. On this day of the transitus of our…
Walks of the Monks
Each week the monks take themselves on the trails in the neighbourhood of the monastery, they talk and relax in an atmosphere of fraternal charity. And three or four times per year, they do a big mountain walk where they…
Without calm no victory is possible
If the current pandemic has caused more than two million deaths, its most serious consequences seem to be, beyond this number, the acute forms of psychological suffering which affect dozens of millions of people. The World Health Organization itself…
Another Two Monastic Vestings
After our brother Benedict took the habit, two other vestings followed, that of Brother Placidus at Epiphany and that of Brother Gabriel on February 11, feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes. Vesting of Brother Placidus The Father…
Discovering Our New Monastery
Due to the entry of three new postulants in recent months, we must redouble our efforts for the restoration of our monastery: repair of roofs, gutters, plumbing, masonry work, etc. If we rarely undertake fundraising for the accomplishment of this…