Letter to our friends n. 48 These times are not different from that Easter dawn. Today as then we believers have difficulty in believing. The Christian community has difficulty in believing; it gi...

The concerts are offered to guests of the community on special occasions to celebrate some of the important Christian feasts, as a way to live them with joy and enlightened by the beauty of music...

The courses are arranged in three levels: First level: introduction to the language and its basic rules Second level: knowledge of the verbs system Third level: reading, translation and comment ...

15 September 2007 15th International Ecumenical Conference The intention of the Conference is to propose a true itinerary for understanding the profound mystery Monastery of Bose, 15 S...

I padri del monachesimo, grazie alla loro esperienza e al loro fine discernimento, sono arrivati a distinguere le varie fasi del processo della tentazione, attraverso il quale una suggestione malig...

Bose, 9-12 September 2009 This year’s theme, The spiritual struggle in the Orthodox tradition, touches the very center of a problem that is extremely relevant today: what prevents the human ...

Spiritual exercises are organized for priests, with two meditations a day (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). Arrivals on Monday (the first conference is at 5:00 pm) and departures on Fr...

 The idea of offering young people the possibility of taking part in workcamps is to enable them to experience community life. Work activities are organised for the mornings and in the afte...

Weekdays and Sundays timetable for guests. Weekdays 5.30 Morning bell 5.30 Breakfast 6.00 Morning prayer 12.30 Midday prayer 13.00 Lunch 17.00 Lectio divina 18.30 Evening prayer 19.0...

Bose, 9 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference Lecture by Metropolitan FILARET, Patriarchal esarch of Bielorussia The meaning of asceticism consists not in developing the capabilities of the...

Meetings of meditation about spiritual themes. CALENDAR 2011   BOSE STUDIUM: 7-11 March 2011 Relevant topics in the monastic life   Me...

The Holy Week is the doxological celebration of our Christian faith. It leads us behind Jesus "the Righteous" in his Passion, Death, and Resurrection

Bose, 9 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference Lecture by ENZO BIANCHI (in Italian) Solo Gesù Cristo, che vive in ciascuno di noi, può vincere il male che ci abita, e la lotta spirituale è es...

Bose, 9 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference Lecture by ENZO BIANCHI (in Italian) Solo Gesù Cristo, che vive in ciascuno di noi, può vincere il male che ci abita, e la lotta spirituale è es...

...to take part in the monastery’s daily work......to take part in the monastery’s daily activities... Scout groups have been coming to Bose since the earliest years of the Community, and the...

the last supper - Ethiopian style Icon Icon P size (length x height in cm) R size (length x height in cm) Nuptial embrace 32 x 40   ...

Bose, 12 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference KALLISTOS WARE Metropolitan of Diokleia Such, then, are some elements of the spiritual struggle in the contemporary world: on the one side, de...

Bose, 12 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference by Fr MICHEL VAN PARYS Nous clôturons ce matin le XVIIe Colloque œcuménique international de spiritualité orthodoxe, consacré au combat spiritu...

St. Antony - Coptic style Icon Icon P size (length x height in cm) M size (length x height in cm) R size (length x height in cm) “Friendship&...

  These pneumatophores (bearers of the Spirit) visited us...   Michele Pellegrino Jean Gribomont Eugenio Costa snr. Abbé Pierre sr. M...

Bose, 12 September 2009  XVII Ecumenical Conference Un ringraziamento perchè ancora una volta noi abbiamo potuto ascoltarci reciprocamente. Le divisioni permangono ancora tra di noi ma questo asc...

XVII Ecumenical Conference Spiritual Struggle in the Orthodox Tradition Bose, Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 September 2009 in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches   XVII Inte...

Baptism of Jesus - Italic style Icon P size (length x height in cm) M size (length x height in cm) G size (length x height in cm) Adoration of the...

Bose, 15 September 2009 XVII Ecumenical Conference The conference was a space of brotherly encounter among the Christians belonging to various Christian traditions about the theme of discernment ...

Metropolitan GEORGE KHODR Importante è pensare insieme tutto per la gloria di Dio che copre il corpo di Cristo. Siamo o non siamo in una comunione autentica e non in una quasi comunione? ...

Letter to our friends Advent 2009 To believe in the love of the common life, to remove oneself from the center of common life, to make space for the other in common life, to bend over the other ...

Trinity - Russian style Icon Icon P size (lenght x high in cm) Icon M size (lenght x high in cm) Icon G size (b x h in cm) Angel (Ga...

From 18 to 21 October 2001 our community welcomed the unexpected, but long-awaited visit of His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, together with two Metropoli...

pigment pounding 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 o...

On October 10, 2003 the Lord showed us his astonishing kindness by granting us the visit at Bose of H.H. Bartholomeos I, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. When the Patria...