25 Dicembre 2013

Anno ALuca 2,1-14 Significativamente nel martirologio odierno si legge: "Commemoratio Nativitatis Domini nostri Jesu Christi". Natale è una memoria, anzi la memoria per ec...

È possibile soggiornare come ospite per una giornata o più giorni, in settimana come nei weekend, anche individualmente. Per prenotare chiediamo di telefonare. Non si accettano prenotazioni via ema...

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Bose, Wednesday 5 – Saturday 8 September 2012 MAN — CUSTODIAN OF CREATION in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches In the Christian tradition of East and West to live on earth i...

  XI International liturgical conference VATICAN COUNCIL II. LITURGY ARCHITECTURE ART Bose, 30 May - 1 June 2013 Monastery of Bose National Office for the Church's Herita...

XXI International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox spirituality THE AGES OF SPIRITUAL LIFE Bose, Wednesday 4 - Saturday 7 September 2013 in collaboration with ...

When br. Enzo received the invitation to be a member of the Vatican official delegation to the Patriarch of Moscow Alexis II, his heart was filled with joy, surprise, and gratitude. On August 28, 2004...

bookbinding The printing house was started in 1984. At the moment it works with two little Heidelberg offset machines. The main production is oriented to the printing materials for our publi...

Enzo Bianchi was born in Castel Boglione (AT), Monferrato, on 3 March 1943. After his studies in economics at the University of Turin, in 1965 he moved to Bose, a small village outside the t...

After this brief outline of the beginnings of the community, we can say a few words about how the community that has taken shape at Bose in the last thirty years understands itself as sharing in the m...

Brother, sister, it is not for yourself that you have come to this community, but for your brothers and sisters in the church and in the world. The element of mission belongs to every function of the ...

Dopo molta ricerca, meditazione e confronto, le sorelle di Bose hanno accettato un invito delle monache benedettine di Santa Scolastica e da ottobre 2013 alcune di loro condividono la vita monastica a...

From April 2013 we are present in Tuscany with a fraternity of brothers in the diocese of Volterra by the church of Cellole, near San Gimigniano.

Brother, sister, when you welcome guests, be aware that it is God who is coming to you as a pilgrim. You will welcome every guest as you would welcome Christ. You will treat all guests who come to the...

Brother, sister, you have been called to follow Christ in community life and in celibacy. In answering this call, you are not undertaking a new way of living the Gospel. You should be aware of this an...

On February 23, 2006, the Prior has been welcomed by Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience. On this occasion he was able to speak with the successor of the apostle Peter about several issues having ...

the courses of the Bose Studium are intended primarily for the novices and other members of our community, but open also to priests and seminarians, monks and nuns, religious men and women of other co...

At Bose on May 18 and 19, 1997, during the extraordinary and unhoped-for visit of his Holiness Bartholomeos I, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, Enzo Bianchi, founder and prior of...

From the first centuries of Christianity, there have been men and women, who soon were called monastics, who left everything in order to try to live the Gospel radically in celibacy and united in comm...

In the course of its thirty-five year history, the community of Bose has been enriched by the arrival of new brothers and sisters from numerous regions of Italy and from abroad. The community now has ...

In order to understanding how monastic life is lived at Bose we have a look at a day in the life of the community. As a way of living concretely the centrality of the Word of God...

  Since ancient times pottery, simply obtained by firing a mix of earth and water, enables people to cook their food and decorate their houses. Earthenware was thus very well known and exploited...

The icon laboratory of the monastery of Bose started its activity about twenty years ago. Nowadays a small group of brothers and sisters of the community share with many monks of the Christian East t...

  Our apiary honey is the result of our brothers' keen interest in beekeeping. The apiary of Bose is situated on the sunny side of a hill, facing south. It overlooks the Ivrea moraine, whose wo...

The tapestry work at Bose follows a very ancient handwearing technique, the so-called "high warp" technique. The chosen draft is firstly enlarged to a full-size cartoon. This cartoon is then fixed beh...

Since its first years, the community of Bose has felt the need to have a library, which could meet its members' spiritual and intellectual requirements. Over the years, the library's patrimony has gr...

Transfiguration, Byzantine style Icon Icon P size (lenght x hight in cm) Icon M size (lenght x hight in cm) Icon G size (lenght x hight in cm...

Recently we have begun a new activity: the handicraft of decorative candles. Our candles are made from refined paraffin with the addition of stearic acid.   Easter candle, detail ...

Jams and preserves of Bose are made with fruit grown in the community garden (exept for citrus fruits which come from Southern Italy). All the fruits are picked only when ripe, and are immediately pr...

a bookcase We create house and church furniture with solid oak and fir wood. Tables, chairs, armchairs, chests, beds, bookcases and wardrobes are the main items of house furniture. Chairs, stools...