“Oh, that today you would hear his voice” (Psalm 95:7): in the Bible, it is Israel’s covenant with God that gives time its meaning. The ‘existential’ time in which the people of God lives is...

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI Prayer is an essential component of history because the cry of the poor and the world's victims, which ascends to God as a plea for justice and peace

15th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality Bose, September 16-19, 2007 Organized by the Monastery of Bose in collaboration with the Patriarchate of 15th International ...

XVI International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality Spiritual Paternity Bose, 18- 21 September 2008 Scientific commettee: Enzo Bianchi (Bose), Lino Breda (Bose), Sabino Chia...

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI Our own listening leads us to recognize God’s listening as a dimension that precedes us and in which we are immersed

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI Chastity creates in us a pure heart that is able to see reality and other people in God, it also makes us living reflections of God's love

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI The criterion in Christian obedience is the Holy Spirit, who interiorizes the demands of the Gospel in each of us "We must obey God rather than men&quo...

In prayer we carry our entire life with us. We are beings-in-relationship with others: other people are part of us, and our relationships play a central role in determining who we are and who we will ...

The Christian tradition, especially in the West, has interpreted holiness in essentially moral terms. Understood in these terms, holiness does not imply absence of sin, but rather trust in the mercy o...

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI Solitude, which we fear because it reminds us of the radical solitude of death, is in reality always solitudo pluralis, plural solitude

The Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI If we find ourselves able to say 'thank you' for the past and 'yes' to the future, we have performed a spiritual operation that is an essential

On December 2, 2002 Rowan Williams was announced as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. He was previously Archbishop of Wales, and...

Dear friends and guests, from 1st January until 8 February 2015, we will be respecting a time of silence, retreat and solitude

Crossing through thick woods and wide cultivate, climbing the first slopes of Serra, (the long hill of glacial origin which separates Biella from Canava), you can reach Bose community. You go through ...

Dearest John, In the course of the liturgy you celebrate daily with your brothers and sisters in community or at least every Sunday in church, you hear Scripture readings and listen to a ...

In the First Covenant, ancient Israel prayed the Word and used the Word ta pray. You can see these communal practices described in chapter 8 of Nehemiah. This method of explaining and praying the Word...

For your lectio divina try to choose a time of day and a place which will provide you with some external silence. This is the necessary condition for interior silence. The Master is here and he ...

When you want to immerse yourself in this prayerful reading, your first job is to select a place where you can be quiet and alone, where you can pray to your Father in secret (Mt 6:5-6) and maybe even...

God calls you to the silent solitude in which the two of you can converse in prayer. God wants to speak to your heart. The Bible speaks of the heart as the center of the human person, the deepes...

Take the Bible in your hands and hold it in front of you with the same reverence you would give to the Body of Christ. Make an epiclesis, an invocation of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit directs the Word'...

Now open the Bible and read the text. Never open if at random. The Word of God deserves to be eaten whole, not nibbled at casually. Follow the cycle of readings in the lectionary with an open mind, ac...

What does it mean, to meditate? This is not always easy to say. Certainly, it means to deepen the message you have read and to find out what God wants to communicate to you. You must do some work, mak...

Now speak to God. Respond to God's invitations: to the calls, the inspirations, the messages God has given you by the Holy Spirit's power in the Word. Do you see that you have been welcomed in...

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The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple On February 2 all of the Christian churches celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Lectionary

Oscar (ca. 800-865) monk and pastor Oscar (Anskar), a Benedictine monk who served as bishop of Hamburg and Bremen, Germany, died in Bremen in 86

The forty-nine elders of Scetis (d. 444) monks and martyrs Today the Coptic Church commemorates the forty-nine martyrs of Scetis

Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) Lutheran pastor In 1705 Philipp Jakob Spener, a Lutheran preacher and an advocate of pietism in Germany, died in Berlin

Barsanuphius and John of Gaza (6th cent.) monks Today the Orthodox churches commemorate Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks who lived in the Gaza desert

Neomartyrs and Confessors of Russia and Ukraine (20th cent.) On February 7 of the year 1918, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev and Halyc, was killed by Bolshevic revolutionaries Lectionary