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 ...

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 ...

A Vietnamese Cistercian who joined a Christian sect, which is not in communion with the Catholic Church, has been dismissed by his monastery. Cistercian Father Joseph Hoang Van Thang, from the ...

BERRYVILLE, VA – A tiny community of cloistered monks in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley had two big problems: one theological and the other ecological. First, the order of Trappist monks had dwindled to ...