04 Dec Genesis of a Monastic Brewer

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By Brother Philip Wilmeth When I started brewing beer together with my dad during my final two years of high school, I had no idea that I would wind up in Italy, brewing beer as a monk. I am not exactly sure why we even started brewing....

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23 Aug Birra Nursia: “An Example of the New Evangelization”

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When Birra Nursia opened its doors now more than two years ago, our hopes rested not on our beer or our name but on God alone for we had no idea how good the beer would taste nor how it would be received in a...

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22 Aug Birra Nursia is a work of evangelization

Posted at 15:59h in News

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even before retired Pope Benedict XVI set up a pontifical council for new evangelization and convoked a world Synod of Bishops on the theme, a new group of Benedictine monks was using Latin and liturgy to reach out to those whose...

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