OCSO Menology Month of November

Father Ambrose Conway

Fr. Ambrose Roscrea 1946 to join Nunraw

Father Ambrose Conway

Father Ambrose

John Basil Conway

born 13 March 1906

entered Roscrea in 1925

ordained Priest 1933

founder to Nunraw 1946

died 28 November 1986

Memorials

	Biography
	Community Chronicle
	Final Appreciation

 1. Biographical Details . . .

http://www.nunraw.com/sanctamaria/ambrose.htm  

OCSO

Menology

for the

Month

of November

NOVEMBER 1

Guido + c. 1145

St Bernard's eldest brother, he was already married and a man of some importance when Bernard urged him to enter the monastery with his brothers. Since his wife would not give her consent, he resolved to give up his position and lead the laborious life of a peasant. But when his wife was stricken with a grave illness, she sent for Bernard, sought pardon and agreed to let Guido enter Citeaux, while she herself became a nun. Guido died at Pontigny on his way back from founding a new monastery near Bourges.

Spinela

A nun of Arouca, Portugual.

Bernard Rosa + 1696

Abbot of Grussau in Silesia, he was one of the three prominent men who helped preserve the Catholic faith in that region.

NOVEMBER 2

Fulcard  12th century

A lay-brother of Clairvaux, a man of great purity and simplicity, he was herdsman at one of the monastery granges. Once in a dream he saw the Lord Jesus holding a goad in his gentle hand and leading the oxen at the other end of the yoke. This filled him with a great desire to see his fellow-worker in heaven. Soon afterwards he was seized with illness and seven days later his desire was happily realized. After his death, St Bernard confidently declared that he walked with God and that it was truly God who worked through him.

NOVEMBER 3

Anne Van Aelst + 1595

Her father was a Moslem convert who had been made Lord of Alost or Aelst. Anne entered Roosendael and became abbess in 1575. However, the following year her convent was pillaged and the nuns were obliged to flee. They took refuge in Malines where they lived in extreme poverty, but also in fidelity to their religious vocation.

Les Moniales, p. 101

NOVEMBER 4

Esther d'Audibert de Lussan + 1672

Named abbess of Valsauve by Pope Clement VIII in 1605, she governed the abbey for sixty-seven years and completely renewed it, exteriorly and interiorly.

Les Moniales, p. 101

NOVEMBER 5

St Malachy  1095-1148

Born and raised in Armagh, Ireland, he became the disciple of a hermit named Eimar. He was ordained at twenty-five and five years later named bishop of Connor. By his preaching and fostering the saramental life, he was instrumental in turning a heathen people back to a Christian way of life. St Celsus named him his successor as metropolitan of Armagh. However, Malachy met with much opposition, and it was not until 1134 that he could take over the diocese. Here too he restored peace and discipline and furthered the Christian life.

In 1140 he went to Rome to receive the pallium. On his way he visited Clairvaux and began a lasting friendship with St Bernard. Malachy even wished to become a Cistercian, had not the Pope forbidden it. Instead he left four of his disciples to be trained in the Cistercian life and then return to Ireland where they founded the abbey of Mellifont. On a second journey to Rome, Malachy again stopped at Clairvaux. There he became ill and on All Souls' Day he died in the arms of St Bernard and was buried at Clairvaux.

Life by St Bernard, CF 10; MBS, p. 288

 

Cistercian Trappists, General Chapter at Assisi Gallery 2. Abbot Mark Caira, ocso. Photographer.

Cistercian Trappists, General Chapter at Assisi

Gallery 1.
Abbot Mark Caira, ocso.
Photographer.

Testing mutiple fike of pics.

Simon & Jude, 28 Oct 2011

   

Fr. Michael Casey ocso

MONASTIC ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR 

SANCTA MARIA ABBEY, NUNRAW,

SCOTLAND.

16 – 29 October, 2011

Abbot Mark Nunraw

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Abbot Mark . . .
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2011, 21:11
Subject: Intro MassThe Introduction for today's Mass:

Intro Mass                                                      Simon & Jude, 28 Oct 2011

Today we celebrate the feast of Sts Simon and Jude.  This is the other Simon among the twelve, called the Zealot, and the other Jude – not the Iscariot.

This will be the last celebration of the Eucharist at the seminar for some of us, so I want to take this opportunity to say publicly how well everyone has fitted into the spirit of the meeting and accepted the arrangements that have been made – both among the Nunraw community as well as our good natured extended community.  I thank you all for that.

It is the final day but only the beginning of something else.  I say that because this time together has brought to the surface thoughts and values that need to be worked at, to be properly digested, if we are to make them our own.  Not least there are the faces that won’t be readily forgotten.  This past fortnight has been a gift for which we give thanks to God, and to Michael for being the channel through which we received them.

Jude has traditionally been revered as the patron of Hopeless Cases.  What a wonderfully appropriate feast to have on our final day.  But, after two weeks probing texts and turning them upside down in an entertainingly way with Fr Michael, I hope he thinks St Jude has been successfully at work among us.