San bruno

"O God, who called Saint Bruno to serve you in solitude, grant, through his intercession, that amid the changes of this world we may constantly look to you alone. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen." Statue of the founder of the Carthusians in St Peter's Basilica, Rome. Today (6 October) is his feast day.

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The consolation that I truly need to be alive, at peace and strong my God is to be re-assured here and there or a lot that the light I am following is You: Jesus Christ and so it is Yours the inner voice I am obeying and only. Licia ps the word "obeying" that is so feared and so obviously rejected by the ego(devil) means simply: behave in accordance with (a general principle, natural law, etc.). "the universe was complex but it obeyed certain rules" I know I must continuously check on my…

On October 6, we celebrate the feast of St. St. Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian order. He was born at Cologne, Germany around 1030. He studied at the school of the Cathedral of Rheims (France)…

Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family. He studied at the Cathedral school at Rheims, and on his return to Cologne about 1055, was ordained and became a Canon at St. Cunibert's. He returned to Rheims in 1056 as professor of theology, became head of the school the following ...

Saint Bruno, Confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order. He was born at Cologne about the year 1030; died 6 October, 1101. He is usually represented with a death's head in his hands, a book and a cross, or crowned with seven stars; or with a roll bearing the device O Bonitas. His feast is kept on the 6th of October. According to tradition, St. Bruno belonged to the family of Hartenfaust, or Hardebüst, one of the principal families of the city, and it is in…

painting by Philippe de Champaigne