San bruno

“Visión de San Bruno Rutilio Manetti”

"O God, who called Saint Bruno to serve you in solitude, grant, through his intercession, that amid the changes of this world we may constantly look to you alone. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen." Statue of the founder of the Carthusians in St Peter's Basilica, Rome. Today (6 October) is his feast day.

Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family. He studied at the Cathedral school at Rheims, and on his return to Cologne about 1055, was ordained and became a Canon at St. Cunibert's. He returned to Rheims in 1056 as professor of theology, became head of the school the following ...

Personal reflections on Spirituality, Catholicism and life as such.

The consolation that I truly need to be alive, at peace and strong my God is to be re-assured here and there or a lot that the light I am following is You: Jesus Christ and so it is Yours the inner voice I am obeying and only. Licia ps the word "obeying" that is so feared and so obviously rejected by the ego(devil) means simply: behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.). "the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules" I know I must continuously check on my…

On October 6, we celebrate the feast of St. St. Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian order. He was born at Cologne, Germany around 1030. He studied at the school of the Cathedral of Rheims (France)…

painting by Philippe de Champaigne

~St. Bruno

Eustache Le Sueur. 1616-1655. Paris. Saint Bruno en prières. Berlin Gemäldegalerie. Eustache Le Sueur. 1616-1655. Paris. Saint Bruno in prayer. Berlin Gemäldegalerie.

Today, October 6, we celebrate the feast of Saint Bruno of Cologne (1030-1101), founder of The Chartreuse Order of cloistered monks (the Ca...