Aug 5 – Church of Spies

The 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. Benedict: Chapter 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