Διεθνές Συνέδριο για τον Μεγάλο Βασίλειο

 

30° International Ecumenical Conference

on Orthodox Spirituality

BASIL THE GREAT

Teacher of Christian Life

Monastero di Bose, 3-6 september 2024

in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

 

This year the International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality reaches its 30th edition. Started in a relatively modest capacity in the 1990s, on the proposal of Professor Nina Kauchtschischwili (1919-2010), as a conference dedicated to Russian spirituality in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, divided in the early 2000s into two distinct sections (Byzantine section and Russian section) and continued in this form for seven years; therefore reunited in a single conference starting from 2007, with the aim of promoting broader participation, with topics of common interest, and dialogue between all the souls of Orthodoxy, after a few years of interruption (2019-2021), the conference it was resumed again in 2022, slightly reducing the number of participants in order to create a climate of greater dialogue and welcome. The basic idea that guides us in this new cycle is to delve deeper into the figures of holiness and the spiritual authors who are at the basis of the Orthodox tradition and who over the centuries have become the common heritage of the entire Christian world, so much so that we can be rightly defined as “ecumenical” saints and doctors. The conference is open to all. Papers will be delivered in Italian, English, French and Greek, and simultaneous translation will be provided into Italian, English and Greek.

 

 

Συνέδριο για τον Ισαάκ της Νινευή

 

28th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality

 

ST. ISAAC OF NINEVEH and His Spiritual Teaching

 

Monastery of Bose, 6-9 settembre 2022

in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

 
Στο φημισμένο μοναστήρι Bose θα πραγματοποιηθεί τον Σεπτέμβρη Διεθνές Οικουμενικό Συνέδριο, αφιερωμένο στον Άγιο Ισαάκ τον Σύρο, που είναι γνωστός και ως Ισαάκ της Νινευή.
 
Isaac, a monk who was elected bishop of Nineveh and resigned after only five months to return to the anchoritic life, lived in Mesopotamia in the seventh century; he is truly an "ecumenical saint”, loved and read far beyond the boundaries of the Church to which he belonged, the ancient Eastern Syrian Church, since the fifth century no longer in communion with the rest of Christianity. Our conference, which gathers in Bose some of the leading experts on Isaac's work, intends to highlight the many aspects of his rich spiritual teaching, which, founded on the two cornerstones of humility and the infinite mercy of God, still continues today to touch the hearts of believers and to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the Christian life, a strong appeal to rediscover the heart of the Gospel, attaining the deep peace and joy that are a gift of God and opening oneself to universal compassion.
 
Monastero di Bose
via Cascina Bose, 7
13887 Magnano, IT

Οδός Συμφιλίωσης

Το παγκοσμίου φήμης μοναστικό καθίδρυμα του Bose (Magnano, Biella, 13887 Italy), οργανώνει κάθε χρόνο ένα διεθνές Θεολογικό Συνέδριο. Για το φετινό Συνέδριο μόλις εξέδωσε την παρακάτω ανακοίνωση:

Despite the difficult situation due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we are still working on the 28th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality

THE WAY TO RECONCILIATION

“…be reconciled to God” (2Co 5,20)

Monastery of Bose, 2-4 September 2020

in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

Hopefully, with the Lord's help, it can be realized on the scheduled dates.

«Κεκλημένοι στην εν Χριστώ ζωή»

Το 27^ο Διεθνές Οικουμενικό Συνέδριο Ορθόδοξης Πνευματικότητας, με γενικό θέμα «Κεκλημένοι στην εν Χριστώ ζωή - Στην Εκκλησία, στον κόσμο, στον παρόντα καιρό», πρόκειται να λάβει χώρα στο Μοναστήρι του Bose, 4-6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019, σε συνεργασία με τις Ορθόδοξες Εκκλησίες.

Στη σχετική ανακοίνωση αναφέρονται και τα εξής:

“Adam, where are you?” (Gen 3,9). In the biblical tradition, God’s call is a call into being out of dust, a call to life, a call to become truly human.

In the Gospel, this call takes a concrete form in the person of Jesus of Nazareth: a response to God’s call involves the following of Christ (cf. Jn 1:38).

It is an encounter of wonder, the birth of an adventure that traverses history.

The 27th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, organized in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches (Bose, 4-6 September 2019), seeks to rediscover the radicality and strength of the call to the Christian life, in the Church, in the world, in history, by listening to the Orthodox spiritual tradition.

According to the Vita, Anthony the Great, the “father of the monks”, in obedience to the Gospel sells everything and, following the Lord, he goes into the desert: it is the beginning of a movement of Christian radicalism, the roots of monasticism. The Fathers of the Christian East, from Basil to Chrysostom, have always stressed the radicalism of the Christian vocation, in its two dimensions of celibacy lived for the Kingdom (Mt 19:12) and of the fruitfulness of love between man and woman according to God’s plan (Mt 19:5-6).

Rethinking the rich and multiform tradition of the Christian East, the conference papers seek to explore the Orthodox theology of the monastic vocation and of marriage, the special charism of women in the life of the Church, the meaning of the life of a Christian community, the presence of beauty present in the Christian life, the Christian hope at different stages of life, also in the face of illness, suffering, death.

Life in Christ is witness to the possibility of a life full of meaning, a hope for all always present in the heart of humanity and creation.

Scientific Committee:

Enzo Bianchi (President, Bose); John Behr (Crestwood, ny), Lino Breda (Bose), Sebastian Brock (Oxford), Lisa Cremaschi (Bose), Hyacinthe Destivelle (Roma), Adalberto Mainardi (Bose), Raffaele Ogliari (Bose), Antonio Rigo (Venezia).