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The Order of Benedictine Monks and Nuns is preparing for its 1500th anniversary in 2029
The Order of Benedictine Monks and Nuns is preparing for its 1500th anniversary in 2029
via a four-year journey, marking the founding of the community in the year 529.
via a four-year journey, marking the founding of the community in the year 529.
The jubilee route, titled "Places of Hope since the year 529," links spiritual themes to historical locations from the life of Saint Benedict.
There is a dedicated website – partly still under development – for the 1500th anniversery: Benedictine Jubilee Places of Hope
The Four Phases of the Jubilee Route
The journey toward the 2029 jubilee is structured across four consecutive years, each centered around a different inner disposition and location:
2026: "Awakening" (Norcia) – The start of the route in Benedict’s birthplace. This theme calls for renewed awareness and spiritual alertness.
2027: "Listening" (Rome) – Focused on inner silence and openness to the divine voice.
2028: "Growing" (Subiaco) – The phase of deepening and personal as well as communal development.
2029: "Flourishing" (Montecassino) – The culmination during the official jubilee year at the place where the monastic rule was written.
So 2026 is the year of Awakening.
The theme "Awakening" in Norcia was not chosen at random; it reaches directly back to the roots of the monastic rule.
In the prologue of the Rule of Benedict appears the explicit call:
Let us get up then, at long last, for the Scriptures rouse us when they say: ‘It is high time for us to arise from sleep.’ Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the voice from heaven that every day calls out this charge
Let us get up then, at long last, for the Scriptures rouse us when they say: ‘It is high time for us to arise from sleep.’ Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the voice from heaven that every day calls out this charge
Within the worldwide Benedictine community, this inaugural year is dedicated to:
Spiritual alertness: Letting go of spiritual routine or 'sleep' in order to live once again with keen attention.
Attentive listening (Oboedientia): Being present with full attention in the here and now, a major challenge in the modern, overstimulating world.
Returning to the source: Going back to the simplicity and core of the tradition in order to offer hope as a community to the outside world.
Each month the communities of the EBCR will write a little article that goes along with the route of the Jubilee.
The first contribution is from the president of the EBCR, sr. Myrese. You can read it here:
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