This is a novice site, not yet fully formed, but as days and weeks go by, it will grow into a hospitable service for persons seeking to realize the monastic dimension in their life. Monastics will at first offer texts and other content drawn from the past and present of the Camaldolese Benedictines. Eventually much other content will be included, from the monastic traditions of the Christian Churches and from those of other faiths.

We are witnessing a paradigm shift, a passage from a static to a dynamic vision of reality. We no longer see the universe as a machine, a lifeless, clockwork structure in which the human mind moves as a detached observer, but as a vast process of energy exchange and a system of interacting phenomena, mental, vital, and material. With all humanity, monastic men and women are involved in this process; their growing awareness of it leads them to assume responsiblity for what the universe and humanity are to become. We can either hold back this process or we can actively promote it. Humanity, giving birth to a new, living universe, urgently needs to foster its spiritual growth. Monastics must help humanity see history in a new light and discover new attitudes of the heart. New spaces for creating, welcoming, dialoguing, and reconciling must be discovered, exercised, and shared. We monastics are caught up in a flow that extends beyond the boundaries of our life. What we discover there will help a new history to unfold.

Today's history, guided by God's mysterious plan no less than in times past, is adding new details to the outline of our identity as monastic women and men. As the changes taking place around us cut deep into our hearts, Christian monastics turn to Jesus and the Gospel, seeking the roots and the criteria of their life in relation to both past and present. In recent years, the Camaldolese Benedictines have begun elaborating a new paradigm of monastic life, faithful to our past and eager to discover the dynamic equivalent of our heritage in the present.