22 August 2010, 4.15 p.m. organ recital by Agata Berki-Brodnanska from Slovakia in church at the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec.
One of the names of peace is reconciliation. French organ symphonic music, seen through ‘the prism’ of a non-French personality, may prove an interesting study: enriching or controversial, traditional or innovative, indifferent or moving. We are thus looking for a new key to the music of three eminent organists at three Parisian churches: the Notre-Dame (Vierne), St Sulpice’s (Dupré), and St-Etienne-du-Mont (Duruflé). Great music, derived to some extent from great architecture, wants to become at least a chance for peace, in a humble synthesis.
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21 August 2010, 8.00 p.m. concert of Agata Berki-Brodnanska from Slovakia at Shrine of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lady of the Tarnow region in Tuchów near Tarnów.
Admission free!
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The Benedictine Music Summer
Tyniec. Tuchów. Staniątki
July–August 2010
The festiwal is intended as an opportunity to hear pieces that have been or still are performed inside the monasteries. This year, we are going to hear Gregorian cahnts, but also more recent works performed by monks and laymen alike. We trust they will retain their Benedictine character because – although taken out of their natural monastic environment some time ago – now they are about to be performed in the Abbey's old library and in the church at Tyniec and also: at the Benedictine Convent in Staniątki and the Shrine of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lady of the Tarnow Region, in Tuchów.
Organ Recitals
In August, during four concerts forming the organ part of the festival, intended as four presentations of the organ music of nearly five centuries, performed by virtuosos representing various schools of European organ playing art, we are going to be dealing with music clearly based on the major-minor system and written in scales that are contemporary mutations of the well-tempered system.
The exhibition The Heritage of St Benedict and St Scholastica: a Rule Filled with Love
Individual entry
Sun–Fri: 10.00–18.00
Saturdays: 10.00–17.00
To follow up on last year’s exhibition Tyniec and Staniątki. A Common Heritage. Liturgy and Music, we continue the theme of the communion of monks and nuns. The present exhibition was inspired by the biography of St Benedict written by Pope Gregory the Great († 604), included in the second book of his Dialogues. Gregory gives us an account of a meeting of Benedict with his sister Scholastica, who was a nun. That meeting, as described by Gregory, became an inspiration for artists, which is exemplified by the painting The Last Conversation of St Benedict and His Sister St Scholastica made by Andrea Sabbatini prior to 1530, now on display for the first time.
If, however, Gregory says that Benedict ‘wrote a rule for his monks, both excellent for discretion and also eloquent for its style,’ he writes more about Scholastica: ‘she who loved more did more.’ Indeed, it is love that constitutes the synthesis of all the rules of monastic – or generally Christian – life.
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All those who wish to spend their holidays away from the hustle and bustle of the popular resorts as well as those who seek peace and would like to discover the spiritual richness of Tyniec are welcome to stay at our Guest House.
More details see booking conditions.
According to the local tradition the Abbey was founded in 1044 by Casimir the Restorer, the son and the successor of the King Mieszko II and Rycheza, the Queen of Köln.
The monastery plays an important role in the restauration of the Polish state and Church after the pagan come back and the Czech invasion. The first abbot of Tyniec, Aron, becomes a bishop of Cracow. He receives the title of an archbishop, which suggests his responsibility for the renovation of the Church structures in the whole Poland.
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Saint Benedict was born into a wealthy family around 480 AD.
He was one of the many people fascinated by the idea of ascetic life, that developed so dynamically in Egypt in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries and soon began to influence other regions of the late ancient world and reached the European West already in the course of the 4th century.
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The spirituality of the Benedictine monks harks back to the earliest manifestations of consecrated life in the Church.
The English word monk (and the Polish mnich) is derived from the Greek monachos (monachoi in plural), which could be translated as he who is one, who is a unity internally, to whom one thing only is important, namely striving toward God.
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Lectio divina – Divine reading – is the practice of the ongoing reading of the Holy Scripture. It is extremely important for adequate growth in faith and for coming to know God.
It is not, however, just any reading of the Holy Scripture, but rather refers to contact with the living God through encountering His Word. As is the case with prayer, it is attained primarily through grace received from God. It is only with this grace that we are able to hear the Word of God Himself in human words, which is what the books of the Holy Scripture are written with.
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The term ‘Gregorian chant’ refers to the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional ancient way of singing in Latin.
Although we do not know exactly what such singing sounded like, we do get a certain idea of it from the preserved written records – and that is quite a lot. We know that, in the first centuries of Christianity, there were other singing traditions side by side with the Old Roman one: e.g. Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Toledo), Beneventine (Benevento), or Gallic (the area of today’s France).
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The Benedictines returned to the ruins of their former abbey on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, in July 1939.
After the war, the rebuilding of the monastery commenced in 1947. The difficult conditions of the post-war reality made it possible to complete the work only at the start of the 21st century.
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