By a decree of 25 May 2024, the Priory of Saint Benedict in Monte near Norcia, Italy, was elevated to an Abbey!
The new Abbot is Dom Benedict Nivakoff, OSB, the first Abbot there since 1792.
This is great news. The monastery is liturgically traditional, using the Vetus Ordo. This is on par with the elevation of the Benedictines at Gower Abbey in Missouri.
Let us all thank God for this great gift to the whole Church.
Here is a shot of the founder, Dom Cassian Folsom, making his obeisance to the new Abbot.
These are the Benedictines who make the wonderful beer I keep pushing.
Get some beer to celebrate and help them!
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Deo gratias!
Are they going to have a Mass to bless/install Dom Benedict as Abbot? That should be liturgically fascinating.
I hadn’t known they weren’t yet. That is great, though.
I was on vacation in the area last year and had the great opportunity to come to them for, among others, the Assumption. They are, as it were, “very Vetus”; the Gospel was about Mary of Bethany sitting at the feet of the Lord, and the sermon on “il grande riposo della Madonna”. Rather fitting when you’re on vacation.
And yes, the beer is possibly the best I’ve ever drunk; certainly among them. (But then of course I’ve never been to Belgium, shortly cycling at the edge of the country excepted.)
This is a great gift to the Church, I am glad to see Catholicism still thriving in a world like this one today. Tanti Auguri!
Great news!
Is this the same community that suffered a terrible earthquake some recent years ago?