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Saint Benoît demande à l’abbé qu’il enseigne ses moines par ses actes et par ses paroles. C’est ce que dom Nicolas Dayez a fait, en commentant avec prédilection la rencontre de Jésus et de Zachée, racontée par saint Luc. Lors des anniversaires de la dédicace de l’église de son monastère construite de lourdes pierres taillées, il stimulait la construction toujours à reprendre d’une communauté faite de pierres vivantes. Voici ses variations sur une même lecture évangélique, quarante-deux homélies, plus une qu’il avait laissée sur sa table, l’ultime, qui fut lue lors de ses funérailles.« Zachée, descends vite ! » : Descente : la descente de Jésus de Jérusalem à Jéricho, mille mètres de dénivellation, la descente de Zachée monté sur le sycomore, la descente de Jésus dans la maison du collecteur d’impôts ; descente que constitue l’incarnation du Verbe, descente aussi que l’humilité, vertu cardinale selon la Règle de saint Benoît. Bien d’autres thèmes se croisent dans ces homélies autour d’une rencontre merveilleuse qui reste d’actualité.

271.1 <493 MAREDSOUS> --- 271.1-7 --- 271.1-7 Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie --- Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie --- 271.1 <493 MAREDSOUS> Benedictijnen--België--MAREDSOUS --- Benedictijnen--België--MAREDSOUS --- Benedictijnen--België--MAREDSOUS --- Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie

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Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. Mystics belonging to the Church of the East pursued a form of contemplation which moved from reading, to meditation, to prayer, to the ecstasy of divine vision. The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread. The sixth-century monastic reform of Abraham of Kashkar codified the essential place of reading in East Syrian ascetic life. Once established, the practice of contemplative reading received extensive theological commentary. Abraham's successor Babai the Great drew upon the ascetic system of Evagrius of Pontus to explain the relationship of reading to the monk's pursuit of God. Syriac monastic handbooks of the seventh century built on this Evagrian framework. 'Enanisho' of Adiabene composed an anthology called Paradise that would stand for centuries as essential reading matter for Syriac monks. Dadisho' of Qatar wrote a widely copied commentary on the Paradise. Together, these works circulated as a one-volume library which offered readers a door to "Paradise" through contemplation. The Library of Paradise is the first book-length study of East Syrian contemplative reading. It adapts methodological insights from prior scholarship on reading, including studies on Latin lectio divina. By tracing the origins of East Syrian contemplative reading, this study opens the possibility for future investigation into its legacies, including the tradition's long reception history in Sogdian, Arabic, and Ethiopic monastic libraries.

Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- Eastern churches --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Prayer --- 281.049 --- 271 <1-11> --- 248.212 --- 248.212 Contemplatie. Extatische vereniging. Geestelijk huwelijk. Gelukzalige aanschouwing --- Contemplatie. Extatische vereniging. Geestelijk huwelijk. Gelukzalige aanschouwing --- 271 <1-11> Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oosten --- 271 <1-11> Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--Oosten --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oosten --- Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--Oosten --- 281.049 Vie monastique dans les Eglises orientales --- 281.049 Monastiek leven in de Oosterse kerken --- Vie monastique dans les Eglises orientales --- Monastiek leven in de Oosterse kerken --- Church history --- Syrian Orthodox monasticism and religious orders --- Monastic and religious life --- Books and reading --- Église --- Églises orientales --- Monachisme et ordres religieux jacobites --- Vie religieuse et monastique --- Livres et lecture --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Church of the East

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Il Liber illustrium virorum archisterii Casinensis fu elaborato tra il 1133 e il 1136 da Pietro Diacono, cartularius, scriniarius ac bibliothecarius di Montecassino. Charles H. Haskins definì quest’opera «un documento di cui qualsiasi istituto monastico potrebbe menar vanto», rimarcando che «più che un catalogo è un epitaffio». L’autore scrive infatti quest’opera con lo sguardo rivolto al passato cassinese, in particolare a quell’età desideriana che fu da lui definita aureum patris Desiderii saeculum, incarnata da letterati e intellettuali del calibro di Alfano, Amato, Alberico, Costantino Africano, Guaiferio, Leone Marsicano. L’intuizione del declino cui va ormai incontro il monastero cassinese, coinvolto nello scisma anacletiano, di cui egli stesso è testimone e protagonista, spinge pertanto Pietro Diacono, nel timore di un naufragio della memoria, a salvare almeno l’eredità letteraria di un passato splendido e irrinunciabile ancorché irripetibile. Il nuovo testo che qui si presenta risponde all’esigenza di superare l’insufficiente e, in molti casi, erronea edizione seicentesca curata da Giovanni Battista Mari – accolta dal Muratori nei Rerum Italicarum Scriptores e quindi dal Migne nella Patrologia Latina –, che giustamente Herbert Bloch definì «del tutto inattendibile», perché derivante non dall’autografo, il Casin. 361, ma da una cattiva copia del sec. XVII (Vat. Barb. lat. 2453). Occorreva quindi restituire dignità a un’opera che, in omaggio alla tradizione geronimiana del De viris illustribus, costituisce, come scrisse Antonio Viscardi, «il primo documento di un interesse per la storia non più solo politica e religiosa, ma anche culturale e letteraria», e «rappresenta, perciò, una cosa singolare nella storia della storiografia medievale».

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes --- Petrus, --- Biblioteca del Monumento nazionale di Montecassino --- Benedictines --- Montecassino (Monastery) --- History --- Monks --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Peter, --- Pietro, --- Abbazia di Montecassino (Montecassino, Italy) --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- Abbazia di Montecassino --- Monte Cassino (Benedictine monastery) --- Monastero di San Benedetto (Cassino, Italy) --- Monastero di S. Benedetto (Cassino, Italy) --- Badia di Montecassino --- Monte Cassino (Monastery) --- Abazia di Montecassino --- Monte-Kassino (Monastery) --- Monumento nazionale di Montecassino --- 271.1 <45 MONTECASSINO> --- 271.1 <45 MONTECASSINO> Benedictijnen--Italië--MONTECASSINO --- Benedictijnen--Italië--MONTECASSINO