SIXTH OF OCTOBER SAINT BRUNO GERMAN MONK WHO FOUNDED THE CARTHUSIA

SAN BRUNO BROTHER WE HAVE DIE. BROTHER WE ALREADY KNOW. Some considerations on the feast of the glorious Saint Bruno Sile et psalle, shut up and sing; The Carthusians adopted the warning of Ecclesiastes as a rule of life. Only today, on the feast of the glorious Saint Bruno, are these monks allowed to go to the parlor and speak. It is one of the monastic orders that gave the most glory to the Latin church. Its founder, a German canon of Cologne and provost of the cathedral of Reims, a man anchored in German consistency and French know-how, abandoning the intrigues of Vatican politics or the incessant discussion of the Sorbonne masters Peter Abelard and Berengar, with Six of his disciples retired to a steep and inaccessible site in Grenoble and there they built a monastery in 1085 which continues to function today. In the Miraflores Burgos Charterhouse there is also no shortage of vocations, a problem endemic to the Western church. What is the secret? Psile et salle sings about the wonders of creation, contemplates the stars, learns that man passes but God does not, a whole recipe to cure the ills of our times with so many talkative politicians, with so many bishops who do not know what they are saying even if they say what he doesn't know, so much scam, so much lobbying, so much lying. Vanity of vanities. Brother we have to die, brother we already know. The scythe of death does not stop mowing the grass, the haystack of death continues to accumulate heads. Look man, fool, your littleness, you are nothing. Raise your arms in contemplation, sing and pray, God is above, control your tongue. Paradoxically, Bruno de Hartenbusch's recipe for living a long life is admirable (not negligible for people today when it comes to reaching old age). The members of this order usually end their centuries-old days. An anecdote is told about it. Pope Alexander VI convened a commission of Carthusians to suppress the harshness of the Carthusian rule, they do not taste meat, they eat once a day and fast on bread and water every Friday of the year, the youngest of the emissaries was 96 years old. , the rest were over a hundred. Therefore, it is explained Cartuxia never reformata quia numquam deformata (the charterhouse was never reformed because it was never deformed). They live in individual cells and they all have to have a garden. The only snack they receive is from the hands of the handyman brother, they only get together for vespers at midnight and for morning convent mass. Saint Bruno was a clairvoyant, he adopted the norms of Eastern hermit and Western monasticism, but his Rule is not related to Saint Basil, Saint Bernard because in the Cistercian conventual life they always go together to pray, to work and even to sleep, it gave rise to many problems, or Saint Benedict with his vow of assiduousness, cannot change monasteries. Bruno did change his name because of his friend, Pope Urban II, who founded the famous charterhouse of Calabria. Let us rejoice in his celebration and pray to the saint to free us from all those evils unleashed by excessive talkativeness, a true scourge today due to the so-called social networks, which, without prejudice to their admirable technological achievements, in the desire to communicate, incommunicate. . People in the midst of triumphant digitalization do not stop giving the finger.