Enzo Bianchi founds Casa Madia in Albiano d’Ivrea

“After just under two years of exile from the community of Bose, I bought a farmhouse with the help of friends and through a ten-year mortgage”

ALBIANO D’IVREA

Enzo Bianchi moved to a farmhouse in Albiano d’Ivrea to “live as a cenobite monk and not a hermit”, as he himself tells his friends. “After a little less than two years of exile from the community to which I started and in which I lived for fifty-five years and not being able to return to Bose to finish my days as a monk in fraternal life, I bought with the help of friends and through a ten-year mortgage a farmhouse in the municipality of Albiano, where I can live the last years of my life in peace », says Bianchi.

“Once the necessary renovations have been completed in order to make it habitable, this farmhouse will be a house that will welcome those who want to live with me, friends and guests who will look for a place of silence, dialogue and hospitality”. The founder of Bose specifies: “Whoever gives birth to a child cannot regenerate him or make him be born again: each child is in a certain sense unique and I do not intend to remake the community that began with me, nor to found a new canonically recognized religious community. . I just want to live as a cenobite monk and not a hermit as I have always lived. As we walk we will see what the Lord will reserve for us and what the Holy Spirit will suggest to us ».

“Casa della madia, house where bread is made, will certainly be a place of prayer, meeting, brotherhood and sisterhood, a table set up for sharing and exchanging words, affections and hope”, concludes Bianchi.