Bernard Bonowitz

Bernard Bonowitz, OCSO, was born in 1949 into a Jewish family in New York City. While studying at Columbia College he was received into the Roman Catholic Church and then entered the Society of Jesus in 1973, becoming a priest in 1979. In 1982, he transferred to the Order of Cistercians of the mostra altro Strict Observance at Saint Joseph's Abbey (Spencer, Massachusetts) where he served as novice master from 1986 to 1996. That year he was elected prior of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Novo Mundo in Brazil and became its first abbot in 2008. Bonowitz has published books and articles in English and Portuguese on monastic spirituality. mostra meno