After over eight hundred years of Cistercian monasticism, the authentic Cistercian patrimony had to be rediscovered only in the middle of the twentieth century . . . and it is Le Bail and the monks of Scourmont we have to thank for that retrieval of sources.
Category Archives: VOLUME 2
Today, too, we are heading toward some island.
After a journey of over forty years, we are now hoisting fresh sails toward a new island—toward hope.
What connects us with the other is the spirit of being together, the spirit of respect for others. We can appreciate each other’s presence.
We see the Abbey of Tre Fontane along Via Laurentina in Rome as a place of hope. Not only is it a jubilee church, but the male monastic community of the abbey and a small group of sisters in the adjoining house, which stands next to the Church of the Martyrdom of St. Paul, are also developing a life within it.




