Aug 5 – Church of Spies

Church of Spies by Mark RieblingThe community completed the mealtime reading of Saint Bernard’s Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the de Gradibus by Bernard Bonowitz, O.C.S.O. Our new refectory book is Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling.

 

 

from Rule of St. BenedictChapter 38. The Reader for the Week

Reading will always accompany the meals of the brothers.

 

References

New Book

Riebling, Mark. Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Previous Book

Bonowitz, Bernard. Saint Bernard’s Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the de Gradibus. Monastic Wisdom Series Vol. 39, Trappist, KY: Cistercian Publications, 2013. Test