Immaculate Heart of Mary’s Hermitage Video Collection

The Monastery of San Benedetto (priory), Norcia, Italy. Roman catholic Monks, following the Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia.Founded in 1998, Rome , Italy, transferred to Norcia in the Umbria region in 2000 ad.
Why monks? In every age, God has raised up men and women who hear Christ’s call to discipleship, and respond in a [...]

Abbaye du Mont des Cats, 8 juin 2008

An enclosed contemplative community of Poor Clare sisters whose monastery is in Nuns’ Island, Galway, Ireland. In fact we have been here in Galway for centuries, right back to 1642, having come through various stages from our beginnings in Gravelines, northern France, where some young Irish women had gone in search of religious life intent [...]

 First ever filming inside the Roman Catholic Monastic/Hermitage of the Grande Chartreuse -1964.The Order was founded by Saint Bruno in 1084a.d. and comprises a masculine and a feminine branch.
At present, the Order is composed of about 450 monks and nuns who live a solitary life at the heart of the Church; there are 24 Houses [...]

Les Monies trappistes

La branche masculine de la famille monastique de Bethléem et de l’Assomption de la Vierge fondée en 1950 et placée sous la paternité spirituelle de saint Bruno. «Viens, suis-moi». À l’appel du Christ, des hommes ont tout quitté pour Le suivre pas à pas. On les appelle «Moines»…
D’un genre inédit, à la fois catéchèse, méditation [...]

Meditation on monastic living and the Rule of St Benedict.

Audio excerpts of a talk at the Dominican House.

Pluscarden Abbey, near Elgin, Scotland, is a monastery of the Valliscaulian Order, founded in 1230 near Elgin, Scotland, by King Alexander II of Scotland. In 1454, the Benedictine rule was adopted there; in 1586, one monk survived. The confiscated property later came into the possession of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, who translated the [...]

Whitby Abbey is a ruined Benedictine abbey sited on Whitby’s East Cliff in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England.
It was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the historical name of the town Whitby where the abbey is located). He appointed Lady Hilda, niece of Edwin [...]