Our Sister M. Josefina Rabella y Huguet died, today, 23rd September 2023. You let your servant go in peace as you had promised her.

After a few years in the infirmary due to old age and illness, grateful for the attention she received from her sisters and carers, she has left to receive the eternal embrace of Christ who was the reason for her life, the Life of her life.
She has spent her time doing good to many people, also through the internet, becoming close to them and weaving true bonds of friendship.

Her nieces, her family and the community who loved her so much will miss her. We entrust her to your memory and may she be an intercessor for us, so that we may follow the path of life as she did.
 

Our sister Natalia submitted on 15 June her doctoral thesis with the title: 

"The Iberian Holy Week Passionaries of the 16th century: liturgical study of their typological diversity".

This thesis, presented to the Liturgical Institute of St. Anselm in Rome, was supervised by Dr. Juan Pablo Rubio Sadia. We are all very happy with this important milestone of our sister. Her work in liturgy is already bearing fruit. Thanks to her careful research, she has updated and rediscovered new passionaris to the Peninsula.

The defence will take place on 6 November at 4 p.m. at San Anselmo in Rome.

Teresa Forcades, invited by Catalan climber Sílivia Vidal Martí, climbed el Cavall Bernat. It was her first important ascent. This has been made possible by the generosity of the Catalan Sílivia Vidal. The ascent took place on Tuesday, 20 June, congratulations!

Warning, Teresa's website has been hacked and may redirect you to another website. Here is the new web link:  Teresa Forcades i Vila | pàgina web oficial (wordpress.com)

At Sant Benet we already have a BIZUM number to make donations easily and from your mobile phone: 06581 Monestir Sant Benet de Montserrat.

You can also continue to make donations by bank transfer to the following number: 
ES48 0081 52 83 3400 0110 9114 (Holder: Benedictines Monestir Sant Benet)
 

Rut i Noemi: Una amistat que obre futurs. A càrrec de Margarita Saldaña Montejano. Teòloga - YouTube

L'amistat com a procés de plenitud. A càrrec de Margalida Femenies - YouTube

LA PROPOSTA DE JESUCRIST SOBRE L'AMOR. Teodor Suau, prevere i Llicenciat estudis Bíblics. - YouTube

 We thank God for the 99th birthday of our sister Josefina. We celebrated her anniversary on the 5th of August and we are still moving towards 100!

The abbesses of the European Benedictine Congregation of the Resurrection met at Sant Benet de Montserrat. For a week they shared their experiences and celebrated the council of the congregation. It has been an opportunity to unite bonds of fraternity and, at the same time, to get to know our monastery.

The superiors have been able to enjoy some outings and have visited the Cave of Manresa, the Sanctuary of Montserrat and the Sagrada Familia.  In addition, some of them were able to have a small experience of the Festival of Sant Jordi in Sabadell, including a display of castellers.

In the meeting there were the superiors of monasteries of the Congregation from Germany, Belgium, France, Holland, Lithuania and Sweden. Missing, however, were those from the monasteries of Bonn and Hurtebise, who were able to communicate thanks to the network.
 

Cycle of talks 2023 at the Monastery of Saint Benedict of Montserrat

Saint Benedict today

Sunday 5 February at 10h : Claus Benedictines for ordinary life

Sunday 26 March at 10 a.m. : Silence

Sunday 7 May at 10 a.m. : Humility

The talks are given by Jaume Duran i Navarro, doctor of medicine, philosophy and theology.

STARTING WELL THE WEEK, LET'S PRAY?

EVERY MONDAY

Gna. CONXITA GÓMEZ

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VIDEOS :

Monday 25/10/2021: https://youtu.be/gAUJDXUya_U

Monday 01/11/2021: https://youtu.be/IG3KeA3unXs

We are pleased to announce that the Sinclètica Monastic School has already borne its first fruits.  Thus, on 19 June we celebrated the graduation of the first class of students of the Master's  degree programme. For more information, please contact the website of the Monastic School: https://sincletica.cat/ 

The community of Saint Benedict of Montserrat is celebrating its anniversary!

The nuns of the Monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat are celebrating the 70th anniversary of their foundation this year.

On 13 May 1952, two Benedictine communities merged to form a new community: Sant Benet de Montserrat. On that day, the nuns from the monastery of Sant Anton i Santa Clara, founded in the 13th century in Barcelona, and the nuns from the monastery of Sant Benet de Mataró, which had been temporarily residing there since 1939, and whose origins date back to the 19th century, met at the monastery of Santa Cecília de Montserrat. Both communities had lost their monasteries during the Spanish Civil War and accepted the proposal to join together and settle on the mountain of Montserrat.

To celebrate the birthday, the same date of May 13th, but 70 years later, the community of Sant Benet de Montserrat has gone up again to the monastery of Santa Cecília to celebrate a Eucharist in thanksgiving for the 70 years of history. The celebration was presided over by Father Manel Gasch, abbot of Montserrat, and concelebrated by the abbot of the monastery of Poblet and the prior of the monastery of Solius. The abbesses of the monastery of Sant Pere de les Puel-les in Barcelona and Vallbona de les Monges, as well as the prioress of the monastery of Sant Daniel in Girona also attended. The community was also accompanied by the president and the first councillor of the European Benedictine Congregation of the Resurrection, to which the monastery of Saint Benedict of Montserrat belongs.

After the mass at Santa Cecília, the meeting continued at the monastery of Sant Benet with a paella, where the monks of the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat also joined in. In all, more than fifty monks and nuns gathered for the feast. After lunch, in a playful and festive atmosphere, they recalled, through a game of questions, some anecdotes and historical events of those beginnings of the communities and that are preserved documented in the monastery's archives. In fact, at present, there are still three nuns who lived in first person the day of the foundation, they are the gna. Assumpta Bardolet, gna. Maria Mercè Coll and gna. Maria Tecla Carricondo. All of them were able to participate in the celebration together with the community.

Today, April 29th, Sr Chantal, M. Dolores, peacefully, during the night, gave her breath of life back to the Lord as a prelude to the new dawn of the resurrection.

The Spirit of Christ cries out to us (Gal 4,6) and it was this same Spirit who led her to take the step of faith and ask for baptism in her adolescence.

She looked death in the face, with courage, and wanted us to experience it as a feast of resurrection. We entrust her to your prayers and remembrance.

Monastery of Sant Benet of Montserrat