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This workshop was opened in the first years of the community to make the rich artistic heritage of the Christian East known to our friends and guests. In the past it produced copies of ancient icons b...

  1. Ambrosian liturgical set for the altar         2. Romanesque liturgical set for the altar 2. Romanesque liturgical s...

11. Big ikebana vase                 12. ikebana vase 12. Ikebana vase       ...

17. Set of vases     18. Artistic plate and bowl 18. Artistic plate and bowl       19. Penholders and perf...

28. Coffee set           29. Coffee set 29. Coffee set           30. Teapots ...

  Scripture - Gospel - Church Bose, 10-12 May 2002 The work of these three days concentrated on the triad “Scripture — Gospel — Church” and sought to bring out the issues and challen...

A Cloud of Witnesses: opportunities for ecumenical commemoration  Bose, 29 October - 2 November 2008 I santi e i martiri – o, più semplicemente, i “testimoni” cristiani che hanno c...

Guests are invited to commemorate feastdays together with the community, celebrating special liturgies according to a timetable which is different from the usual everyday timetable.

Based on research carried out by some of the members of the monastic community of Bose, the publishing house Edizioni Qiqajon takes its name from the Hebrew word "qiqajon", i.e. the tree tha...

The International Liturgical Conferences held every year at Bose are meetings of scholars and experts coming from different countries and belonging to different Christian Churches. Their aim is to off...

The communion of Saints of heaven and earth Today the Church invites us to sing that the branches have yielded their fruit; cleansed and pruned by the Father on the vine that is Christ, the branches h...

Memorial of the departed in Christ Jesus promised those who remain in his love that death would not have the last word in their lives, but would be a passage to fullness of life, because love is stron...

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) priest In 1600 Richard Hooker finished his earthly parable near Canterbury, where he had been a parish priest. The Church of England commemorates him as a Teacher of the Fa...

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

William Temple (1881-1944) pastor and ecumenical witness Born in Exeter in 1881, William Temple was one of the leaders of the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century.

Peter Wu Guosheng (1768-1814) martyr In 1814 the first Chinese-born Christian martyr, Peter Wu Guosheng, was sentenced to death. He was a catechist in Guizhou province and was guilty of refusing to r...

Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906) nun Today the Catholic Church commemorates Elisabeth Catez, better known as Elizabeth of the Trinity.

Nectarius of Egina (1846-1920) monk and pastor Today the Church of Greece commemorates one of its most popular saints, Nectarius of Egina, who was a monk and metropolitan of Pentapolis.

Leo the Great (d. 461) pastor Pope Leo I, called "the Great" by later generations because of the breadth of his pastoral activity and theological pronouncements, died in Rome in the year 461.

Words of Spirituality

by ENZO BIANCHI The senses are not eliminated but ordered by faith, trained in prayer, grafted in Christ, and transfigured by the Holy Spirit

In our "society of uncertainty" (insightfully described by Zygmunt Bauman), in a moment of history in which we continue to talk about the 'end' (of the century, the millennium, modernity, ideologies, ...

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI The spiritual and ascetic tradition has always seen silence as essential to an authentic spiritual and prayer life

Words of Spirituality by ENZO BIANCHI Humility is not primarily a virtue to acquire, but rather an abasement to endure: humility is above all humiliation

Dai cieli piova la rugiada e dalle nubi il giusto. Consolati, consolati, popolo mio verrà presto la tua salvezza. Perché ti lasci consumare dalla tristezza? Perché soffri   R....

0 Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the suffering they have inflicted on us; remember the fruits we have bought, tha...