Pope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.” “Today the experience of encountering diversity is a sign of the ...

Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation. Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery is attracting millennial ...

IN the midst of tight regulations governing social distancing and self-isolation as society struggles to work through the Covid-19 crisis, Cistercian monks and nuns in Ireland, and the world over, are ...

Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

Next Sunday, January 26th, 2025, will be a date of historic significance for one of Ireland’s oldest – and for hundreds of years most influential – religious orders, the Cistercians. On that date, the ...

As you travel through the Polish countryside, one of the most common and regular sights that catches your eye is an unassuming church steeple elegantly rising above the tree line surrounding a passing ...

Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let’s talk about monks and waterwheels.

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Magnetically attractive, abbeys are islands of serenity in a chaotic world. And so it is that the dreamy spires of Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, act as an almost irresistible attraction for ...