Sunday, July 12, 2009
Pèlerinage Chartres-Montmartre
Pèlerinage de Notre Dame de Chartres au Sacré Coeur de Montmartre, 2007.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Everyday: Benedictine Life at Mount Saviour Monastery
The Everyday is a one-hour program documenting the lives of the monks living at Mount Saviour Monastery in Elmira, New York. The program, shot over the course of five years, is an invitation into the private and holy existence of monks.
The Everyday explores the monastic attitudes toward everyday secular issues, such as work, commitment and love. The monks offer insights to the joys and the disappointments of monastic life and in the process, lay down the groundwork for a new way of thinking about our own 'everyday' lives.
"The Everyday" is a profile of six monks and their quest to achieve the extraordinary by doing the ordinary, faithfully, everyday
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Seminary of Christ the King
International/diocesan highschool/college and Roman Catholic Seminary- Abbey of Christ The King /Mission, B.C., Canada
- The Seminary of Christ the King is owned and operated by the Benedictine Monks of Westminster Abbey, Mission, British Columbia, Canada.The Benedictines have run the Seminary of Christ the King since 1939.
- Study and teaching have a special place - the monks conduct the Seminary of Christ the King, which is both a high school and a degree-granting arts and theological college where students prepare for the priesthood.
Monday, June 22, 2009
St. Thomas More~Trial & Execution
Sir Thomas More, (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535)Renaissance English writer,Lawyer, Lord chancellor of England and Catholic martyr, in the Tudor court of King Henry VIII.
It is certain that he went to live near the London Charterhouse and often joined in the spiritual exercises of the monks there. He wore "a sharp shirt of hair next his skin, which he never left off wholly" (Cresacre More), and gave himself up to a life of prayer and penance. His mind wavered for some time between joining the Carthusians or the Observant Franciscans, both of which orders observed the religious life with extreme strictness and fervour(at that time). In the end, apparently with the approval of Colet, he abandoned the hope of becoming a priest or religious, his decision being due to a mistrust of his powers of perseverance.
Meanwhile More had made friends with one "Maister John Colte, a gentleman" of Newhall, Essex, whose oldest daughter, Jane, he married in 1505.
More married again very soon after his first wife's death, his choice being a widow, Alice Middleton. She was older than he by seven years.
In October, 1529, More succeeded Wolsey as Chancellor of England, a post never before held by a layman. In matters political, however, he is nowise succeeded to Wolsey's position, and his tenure of the chancellorship is chiefly memorable for his unparalleled success and fair charitable justice as a judge.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Plock - Old-Catholic church and monastery of the Mariavites
The towering construction of the neo-Gothic old-catholic church and monastery of the Mariavites built in 1911 -- 1914 boldly stands out in the Płock panorama. It is the center of the Polish Mariavite movement. The church plays a role of the cathedral church. In the basement, there are the tombs of Feliksa Kozłowska, the founder of the Mariavite movement and the first Mariavite bishops. Every year on August 15th pilgrims from all over Poland come to the Płock sanctuary.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Sunday Liturgy at Benedictine Monastery of Abu Ghoush, Israe
A Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery located in the Holy Land celebrates Sunday liturgy using the Missal of Paul VI, mostly in French, but chanting the parts from the Roman Gradual in Latin. Monks and nuns celebrate and sing together. Their church was built in the 12th century by the Crusaders. A nice synthesis of the current rite with the larger monastic tradition
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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