I have recently found a couple of videos describing the life of St Bruno and that of the Carthusians. As we head towards Advent, and my annual encouragement that we have a “Slow Advent” (do less rather than add more and more on), Bruno and the Carthusians can inspire us.
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I am convinced that ancient, timeworn disciplines and wisdom – especially from our Christian roots in the desert, refined in the monastic laboratory – can enable and enrich our Christian lives. 6 October is the commemoration of St Bruno, founder of the Carthusians – one of the orders of monks and nuns that profoundly inspires me.
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God,
you called Bruno to serve you
in a life of solitude,
inspired by his example,
may our hearts be fixed on you
amidst the swift and varied changes of the world,
through Jesus, the Christ,
who is alive with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Over more than four decades, Bruno Rotival took more than 37,000 photographs of monks and nuns in over 80 monasteries around the world. He managed to translate monastery and silence into photographs.
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Bruno of Cologne (Cologne c. 1030 – Serra San Bruno 6 October 1101) was the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order’s first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims, and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II. God, you called Bruno to serve you in a life
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The Religious Order that Saint Bruno founded, the Carthusians, have a saying, “Non sanctos patefacere sed multos sanctos facere.” “To make saints, not to publicize them.” It is appropriate, then, that Saint Bruno himself was never formally canonised. But the cardinal protector of the Carthusian order, in a deed dated July 19, 1514, gave the
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Bruno of Cologne (Cologne, c. 1030 – Serra San Bruno, 6 October 1101), founder of the Carthusian Order. God, you called Bruno to serve you in a life of solitude, inspired by his example, may our hearts be fixed on you amidst the swift and varied changes of the world, through Jesus, the Christ, who
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Two wonderful videos about Carthusian hermits.
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Be blessed by the beautiful movie of a Korean Carthusian monastery.
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Let us pray (in silence) [that we may be open to God’s goodness] Pause Almighty everliving God, [or Compassionate God] you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we desire or deserve; pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our
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