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Unum Necessarium

9/30/2019

Dear Friends and Family,

... This edition of the newsletter brings with it news of many activities: the missionary work of Fr. Cassian, a monk’s construction of a shrine, monk-led educational seminars for locals in Norcia and new shipping methods to get Birra Nursia to your door at lower costs. The prize promised to the Mary of the Assumption Gospel, which is the Virgin’s prize, can at least in part be ours also if in all our activity we remember the Unum Necessarium, which is His gift to us and not ours to Him. ...

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Building the retaining wall

9/27/2019

Workers nearing completion of an additional segment of the retaining wall on the mountainside. The small arch in the photo is in construction to one day house a statue of Our Lady.

Securing the church

9/10/2019

Workers at the site of the new monastery in Monte drill underground to prepare pilasters for the 16th century church.