Letter to friends - Qiqajon di Bose n. 79 - Christmas 2025
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
These lines, intended to revive our communion with you, come to you at the end of the year in which we commemorated the First Ecumenical Council, held in Nicaea 1700 years ago. And this month of December marks the anniversary of another ecumenical council, Vatican II, which ended 60 years ago.
While the words of the angels to the women who had come to the sepulcher, “Why are you seeking among the dead him who is alive?”, we have had news of the passing away of Pope Francis from this world to the Father. He had begun his Petrine ministry presenting himself as Bishop of Rome and as Bishop of Rome he concluded it, with the benediction “urbi et orbi”, to the city and to the world.
Letter to friends n. 77 - Christmas 2024
These lines reach you at the heart of Advent, dawn of a new liturgical year and sunset of a civil year. If the scanning of social time leads us more and more often — and with increasing anxiety — to ask "what future awaits us?", church time brings Christians back to an inverted question: "But do we really await the return of the Risen Lord?" and to the consequent question: "What do we do with this time? What do we do with this waiting?". It is in the light of this awareness that we would like to read with you some of the connotations that Christian waiting takes on in the calendar year that is now opening.
Letter to Friends No. 76 - Transfiguration 2024
A few days before our community retreat - preached by M. Michela Porcellato, prioress of the Camaldolese Monastery of St Anthony in Rome - and our annual general chapter, Prior Br Sabino met Pope Francis in private audience. With cordiality and a fatherly attitude, the pope inquired about the path of the Community, to which he has always remained close during this time. He entrusted the prior with his word of encouragement and his blessing for each brother and sister, and his exhortation to continue to walk confidently behind the Lord, in fidelity to his call.
Letter to friends - Qiqajon di Bose n. 76 - Trasfiguration 2024
"He was transfigured before them" (Mt 17:2). The good news that the feast of the Transfiguration offers us is in this event of light: the man Jesus changes his appearance in the presence of three of his disciples and the divine nature that dwells in him shines out in all its fullness before human beings created in the image and likeness of God. Thus it is the very gaze of the disciples that is transfigured, benefiting from a new light in which to contemplate the Son of Man. A new gaze - that of Peter, James and John on Tabor and that of each and every one of us when we raise it towards the transfigured Lord - that enables a different discernment of the realities we find at the foot of the mountain, in our daily pilgrimage towards the heavenly Jerusalem. A gaze renewed and made clairvoyant by frequenting the Law and the Prophets - present through Moses and Elijah - and by listening to the beloved Son, as the voice of the Father resounded on Tabor asks us to do.