The
website of the Monastery of St Benedict in the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon has
a number of great photographs from the Sacra Liturgia Summer School held there from July 5-20 of this year. His Grace Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, was a guest lecturer and celebrant of some of the liturgies; you can read his account of the event by
clicking here. There are also links within that page to his various lectures. During the summer school, the Divine Office was sung daily in the monastic rite, as well as the Holy Mass. The participants went in pilgrimage to visit the relics of St Mary Magdalen at St Maximin la Sainte-Baume, to the chapel of Notre Dame de Miremer, to the Abbey of Le Thoronet and to the relics of St Roseline of Villeneuve.
On Friday July 18th, His Excellency Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, celebrated a Pontifical Mass at the throne, assisted by local clergy and participants in the summer school. At a dinner following the Mass Bishop Rey expressed the hope that the summer school will become a regular feature of the monastery's apostolate.
In November, the proceedings of the 2013 Sacra Liturgia conference (
reviewed here by Dr Kwasniewski) will be officially presented in Rome; we will announce the details when they become available. You can check for further initiatives from Sacra Liturgia by
clicking here.
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| Pontifical Vespers of Sunday celebrated by Archbishop Gullickson |
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| Solemn Mass of Our Lady at the Chapel of N.D. de Miremer |
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| Solemn Votive Mass of St Mary Magdalene at St Maximin la Saint-Baume |
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| Pontifical Mass celebrated by Bishop Rey |
