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The temporary monastery, shown above and below, is a refuge for the monks, who live according to the way of life exhibited by their patron, St. Benedict. Their monastery was damaged by an earthquake in 2016 and is undergoing extensive repairs (also shown).
Monastery set in the hills near St. Benedict’s birthplace focuses on wisdom that is ‘always new.’
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, 7/11/19
NORCIA, Italy — “In many ways we’ve had to start from scratch,” says Benedictine Father Benedict Nivakoff. “But we’ve found that God has blessed us in ways that we never thought possible.”
As prior of the Monastero di San Benedetto in Monte (“The Monastery of St. Benedict in the Mountains”), set in the rolling Umbrian hills just outside St. Benedict’s birthplace of Norcia in central Italy, Father Nivakoff has faced a traumatic three years since the 6.6-magnitude earthquake devastated the town in the early hours of Oct. 30, 2016.
The severe tremor, which caused some damage even in Rome, made the monastery uninhabitable. It also destroyed the 12th-century basilica in the center of the town where the monks had celebrated liturgies in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite and prayed the Divine Office.
Read more at http://www.ncregister.com
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