Posts Tagged ‘Cluny’

Here I stand on the threshing floor remains of Cluny, at one time the largest freestanding building in Europe. The Cistercian reformation was (in part) a reaction to the Cluniacs. I don’t have a PhD in Cluniac reform, so I won’t pretend I’ve spent years studying old Latin, but the Cistercians did return to a strict observance of the Rule of St. Benedict, and added some new documentation clarifying some things.

I like that Pope Benedict XVI has a TV website. I wonder what Bernard would have done with such technology from his abbey in the forest of central France. It’s encouraging to read Benedict’s words of late on Bernard and the Cluniac Reform; for me the timing is spot on.