Addressing a monastic

[Thepeug]

FYI, Only very few Benedictine monks are addressed as Dom. Dom is a sign of respect, and is usually reserved for members of a monastery who once were abbot or who did some great for the community.

At the monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy (a life-changing place and center of Benedictine reform, if you ever get the chance to visit), all of the solemnly-professed brothers are called Dom. Everyone else is addressed as “brother.”

Here’s the website: osbnorcia.org

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

At the monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy (a life-changing place and center of Benedictine reform, if you ever get the chance to visit), all of the solemnly-professed brothers are called Dom. Everyone else is addressed as “brother.”

Here’s the website: osbnorcia.org

My dream is to someday see this, Montecassino (again) and Subiaco

It appears that the monks at Farnsworth follow the same system…

Thank you so much for the link. I am listening to the monks chant Vespers

 

[Thepeug]

My dream is to someday see this, Montecassino (again) and Subiaco

It appears that the monks at Farnsworth follow the same system…

Thank you so much for the link. I am listening to the monks chant Vespers

There’s a tiny subterranean chapel located directly beneath the high altar–and thus, directly beneath the tomb of SS Benedict and Scholastica–at Monte Cassino in which visiting priests can celebrate Mass. When visiting last summer, I was blessed to be able to hear Mass (in the extraordinary form, no less!) in this very chapel, celebrated by Fr. Benedict Nivakoff, OSB, sub-prior at Norcia. Quite the experience.

To the right of the altar in the chapel is the ossuary which formerly contained the bones of the two saints, discovered during the post-WWII renovations.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

There’s a tiny subterranean chapel located directly beneath the high altar–and thus, directly beneath the tomb of SS Benedict and Scholastica–at Monte Cassino in which visiting priests can celebrate Mass. When visiting last summer, I was blessed to be able to hear Mass (in the extraordinary form, no less!) in this very chapel, celebrated by Fr. Benedict Nivakoff, OSB, sub-prior at Norcia. Quite the experience.

To the right of the altar in the chapel is the ossuary which formerly contained the bones of the two saints, discovered during the post-WWII renovations.

I haven’t been to Montecassino in years. I really, really want to go back.

Lucky you!