My brother was a life long Agnostic despite our ģreat education in Catholic schools. He went to Italy to see a friend who had been with the same Washington DC Law firm. He was asked by a waitress if he could review some papers and went to the Monastery. He didn't leave. Something he finds didn't difficult to explain occurred & he asked for waivers to become a Choirmonk òf the Òrder of Carthusians. He was ordained a Priest. He was a professed Carthusian when he was called to ĎC for a debriefing. He remains a Priest and a Carthusian but was hit by a car and developed a neurological disease that has spread to every nervous system in his body and his right side is all metal. He returns to Italy a couple times a year but comes back, with permission, from his Prior and the Prior General of the Carthusian Order and speaks with his Prior weekly. He has embraced his faith and lives as much like the Choirmonk he is which can be difficult when not in a Cloister and living with the pain as his nervous systems atrophy.
Father, thank you for your teaching and teaching-boostering! …from one who spent 40 years teaching despite lack of respect, appropriate salary, recognition, and seeing my top of the line students in a premier school have no interest to go into teaching!
St Bruno , pray for us! Thank you for all your knowledge of St Bruno, today on his feast day October 6 . Nice to learn about the life of St Bruno. Thank you.
Reverend Father, thank you for this and all your wonderful lessons! I truly love it! It was the time of the scisms and it ended up with the fire of Rome, much later! Then, There was a struggle between king Henry IV of Germany, and the church on who had the right to appoint legitimate ecclesiastical investitures, and naturally, as it happened in the Easter roman empire and the orthodox church, the king's concerns were political support and not spiritual guidance nor careful safeguarding of the church and doctrine. At the Sinod of1075, the pope condemned all ecclesiastical investitures by laymen on pain of anathema. (Dictatus Papae 1075). Robert Guiscard who dominated southern Italy had already pledged loyalty to the pope . The pope excommunicated king Henry for disobeying and appointing bishops, famously while the pope was at Canossa hosted by Contessa Matilda kneeled in the snow in sackcloth, but he was not repented it was a necessary political manoeuvre to retain the loyalty of his German barons and land holding nobility. Henry went on to do much worst after his papal pardon that lifted the excommunication, to the point that he was excommunicated a second time in 1080. Henry attacked Rome, the pope (Gregory) locked himself in Castel Sant Angelo (named so after an angel brandishing a flame sword was seen during a procession to stop the plague, after which the plague stopped drastically and the pope ordered that the statue of an angel be put on the castle to testify of the glorious works of God Allmighty -italians have no wish to be punished like Moses for not glorying the miracles and graces and supernatural events that God lovingly bestow on them and they make sure to live a sign that will tell the story even after many centuries have gone by, hence the churches full of ex voto as a testimony to encourage the faith of others and glorify God-). On the Palm Sunday Henry enthroned Clement lll . The Norman king Robert Guiscard, run to pope Gregory 's rescue (may 1084), as his 36000 strong army was nearing Rome Henry "was made aware of urgent matters in Germany" and he and his antipope run back north living a few troops behind with the task to "defend" Rome. Robert did win access to Rome and saved the pope, but the troops became out of control in the fight against Henry's troops, being both in foreign land in the fighting parts of Rome went aflame and were covered in blood. The trips begun to pillage Rome and the Roman besieged Robert and the Norman's to get them out of Rome (many romans opposed pope Gregory on entirely political grounds) and Rome was devastated by the fire which did not help to see the pope in a good light. The Norman left with pope Gregory who died in 1085 and was buried at Robert Guiscard expenditures.
Stat crux dum volvitur orbis! For those interested in Master Bruno and Carthusian spirituality from a lay perspective, look up the International Fellowship of Bruno (IFSB).
My brother was a life long Agnostic despite our ģreat education in Catholic schools. He went to Italy to see a friend who had been with the same Washington DC Law firm. He was asked by a waitress if he could review some papers and went to the Monastery. He didn't leave. Something he finds didn't difficult to explain occurred & he asked for waivers to become a Choirmonk òf the Òrder of Carthusians. He was ordained a Priest. He was a professed Carthusian when he was called to ĎC for a debriefing. He remains a Priest and a Carthusian but was hit by a car and developed a neurological disease that has spread to every nervous system in his body and his right side is all metal. He returns to Italy a couple times a year but comes back, with permission, from his Prior and the Prior General of the Carthusian Order and speaks with his Prior weekly. He has embraced his faith and lives as much like the Choirmonk he is which can be difficult when not in a Cloister and living with the pain as his nervous systems atrophy.
Father, thank you for your teaching and teaching-boostering! …from one who spent 40 years teaching despite lack of respect, appropriate salary, recognition, and seeing my top of the line students in a premier school have no interest to go into teaching!
St Bruno , pray for us!
Thank you for all your knowledge of St Bruno, today on his feast day October 6 .
Nice to learn about the life of St Bruno.
Thank you.
Extraordinary story of the agnostic/lawyer/Carthusian/handicapped priest!
Very informative. Good to know more about Carthusian spiritually. Thank you
Thankyou for your life witness Saint Bruno. Saint Bruno, Confessor. Pray for us.
Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you.
Reverend Father, thank you for this and all your wonderful lessons! I truly love it!
It was the time of the scisms and it ended up with the fire of Rome, much later!
Then, There was a struggle between king Henry IV of Germany, and the church on who had the right to appoint legitimate ecclesiastical investitures, and naturally, as it happened in the Easter roman empire and the orthodox church, the king's concerns were political support and not spiritual guidance nor careful safeguarding of the church and doctrine. At the Sinod of1075, the pope condemned all ecclesiastical investitures by laymen on pain of anathema. (Dictatus Papae 1075). Robert Guiscard who dominated southern Italy had already pledged loyalty to the pope . The pope excommunicated king Henry for disobeying and appointing bishops, famously while the pope was at Canossa hosted by Contessa Matilda kneeled in the snow in sackcloth, but he was not repented it was a necessary political manoeuvre to retain the loyalty of his German barons and land holding nobility. Henry went on to do much worst after his papal pardon that lifted the excommunication, to the point that he was excommunicated a second time in 1080. Henry attacked Rome, the pope (Gregory) locked himself in Castel Sant Angelo (named so after an angel brandishing a flame sword was seen during a procession to stop the plague, after which the plague stopped drastically and the pope ordered that the statue of an angel be put on the castle to testify of the glorious works of God Allmighty -italians have no wish to be punished like Moses for not glorying the miracles and graces and supernatural events that God lovingly bestow on them and they make sure to live a sign that will tell the story even after many centuries have gone by, hence the churches full of ex voto as a testimony to encourage the faith of others and glorify God-). On the Palm Sunday Henry enthroned Clement lll . The Norman king Robert Guiscard, run to pope Gregory 's rescue (may 1084), as his 36000 strong army was nearing Rome Henry "was made aware of urgent matters in Germany" and he and his antipope run back north living a few troops behind with the task to "defend" Rome. Robert did win access to Rome and saved the pope, but the troops became out of control in the fight against Henry's troops, being both in foreign land in the fighting parts of Rome went aflame and were covered in blood. The trips begun to pillage Rome and the Roman besieged Robert and the Norman's to get them out of Rome (many romans opposed pope Gregory on entirely political grounds) and Rome was devastated by the fire which did not help to see the pope in a good light. The Norman left with pope Gregory who died in 1085 and was buried at Robert Guiscard expenditures.
Stat crux dum volvitur orbis! For those interested in Master Bruno and Carthusian spirituality from a lay perspective, look up the International Fellowship of Bruno (IFSB).
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