All the members of the community work, earning their living with their own hands, just like everyone else, and following the example of the apostles and fathers. Our community receives no financial a...

Ever since the first years of our community, agriculture has always been an important part of our work. Growing according to the different seasons, the great variety of agricultural produce remi...

Scripture, the writings of the Church fathers, and liturgy are at the core of the community life. For this reason Biblical, Patristic, and liturgical research, as well as the edition and translation o...

Gift packages with herbal teas Gift packages with herbal teas Products on sell preparing blends Herbal infusions of Bose are the fruit of an expert blending of herbs, berries, flower...

By car:

you are advised to follow the motorway A4/A5 (link road between the motorways Milan-Turin and Turin-Aosta) and exit at casello di Albiano; then drive to Bollengo and Magnano. You can...

You may come to Bose for any number of reasons: to seek a quiet place to rest a while, a hill where you can pray, brothers and sisters with whom to discover a life in communion, a place to listen to...

To contact the guest house of the monastery and to have information about the stay at Bose, please make a phone call! We do not accept reservations by e-mail: please use e-mail only to request inform...

The “Meetings” are intended to spur our faith and our witness along our journey in fellowship with men and women. They offer an occasion for meeting others and for sharing reflections and thoughts...

Courses on Bible and spirituality last one week: for their particular character, we only accept participants who are able to stay for the whole week. Participants join the community for the daily comm...

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 of ...

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 Frida...

 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 afterno...

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

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 19.00 S...

...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 th...

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 of t...

In Search of Shared Spiritual Sources: International Ecumenical Conferences on Orthodox Spirituality

           

The Experience of a Fraternal Encount...

go to the NEW EDITION 2011: {link_prodotto:id=980} Ecumenical office for the liturgical year  PREFACE by Enzo Bianchi, prior of Bose, to the s...

1. The plan of the prayer a) Liturgical times This book contains the prayer for every day of the liturgical year. In the rhythms and events of time the Church wants to remind us of and to ...

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

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 Metropolits,...

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 Patriarch...

4th Conference on Protestant Spirituality Bose, 6-8 may 2005Baptism, source of the Christian life

The journal Positions luthériennes has published the proceedings of the past Conferences on Protestant spirituality (all are in French). The Lord's Supper and the Unity of the ChurchesBose, May 17 -...

Il IV Convegno Liturgico Internazionale, promosso dal Monastero di Bose in collaborazione con l’Ufficio nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici (CEI), dedicato al tema: Lo spazio liturgico e il...

IV International Liturgical ConferenceTHE LITURGICAL SPACE AND ITS ORIENTATIONBose, June 1-3, 2006Monastery of BoseNational Office for the Church's Cultural Heritage of the Italian Bisho...

  IV International Liturgical Conference 1- 3 June 2006 The Liturgical Space and its Orientation Monastery of Bose Ufficio Nazionale Beni Culturali Ecclesiastici - CEI  

Alla fine degli anni ’40 e per tutto il decennio successivo Thomas Merton (Prades 1915 - Bangkok 1968), entrato ventisettenne nel monastero trappista del Gethsemani (Kentucky) solo tre anni dopo ave...

XIV Convegno ecumenico di spiritualità ortodossa Bose, 14-20 settembre 2006 Che cosa significa celebrare la liturgia? Come la vita spirituale di una persona si innesta nella vita della comunit...

19th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality The Word of God in the spiritual life Bose, 7-10 September 2011 Browse: la prefazione e l'indice del li...