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It's the Feast of St. Bruno, 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "The Spouse", today's news from the Church: "Sister Mary Michael, the First Sister of the SSPX Celebrates 50 Years of Her Profession", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "The Spouse" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Sister Mary Michael, the First Sister of the SSPX Celebrates 50 Years of Her Profession" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/sister-mary-michael-first-sister-sspx-celebrates-50-years-her-profession-61396
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

Saint Bruno founded one of the strictest religious orders in the Catholic Church, and more than nine hundred years later, his monks are still living remarkably close to the way he did.

Bruno was born around 1030 in Cologne, Germany. He was brilliant, studied at some of Europe's best cathedral schools, and eventually became a respected teacher at Reims. Among his students was a man who would later become Pope Urban II.

Bruno could have had a very successful Church career.

Instead, he wanted silence.

In 1084, Bruno and six companions went looking for somewhere they could disappear. The Bishop of Grenoble, Saint Hugh, gave them an isolated valley high in the French Alps called Chartreuse.

It was perfect.

Cold.

Remote.

Difficult to reach.

Basically everything Bruno was looking for.

There the men built individual cells around a small church and began living an unusual combination of hermit and community life. Each monk spent most of his time alone, praying, studying, working, and eating in his cell. They gathered for certain prayers and on special occasions, but solitude remained at the heart of their vocation.

That little community became the Carthusian Order, taking its name from Chartreuse.

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