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Bose is a community of monks and nuns belonging to different Christian Churches. Since the first centuries of Christianity there have been men and women who early on came to be called monastics, and who gave up everything in an attempt to live in radical obedience to the Gospel, in celibacy and in community. Bose lies within this tradition, which belongs to the Christian East and West alike. The community seeks to live monastic life in our own time under the guidance of a rule and a spiritual father, the prior. All the members of community work, earning their living with their own hands: cultivation of fields and gardens, ceramics, icon painting, carpentry, publishing, printing are the professional activities in which members have so far engaged. Hospitality has been practiced since monasticism began. At Bose all are welcome, and especially those who want to experience community life, as well as those who need a place of retreat where they can spend time in silence.

The community came into being on the 8th of December, 1965. On that day the Second Vatican Council concluded its work, and Enzo Bianchi decided to live alone in a rented house near the dairy farms at Bose. Three years later the first brothers, a sister, and a Reformed pastor joined him. Since then, in the morning, at noon and in the evening, the liturgy of the hours has been sung, hospitality has been offered, the Scriptures and the monastic tradition have been studied, and the demanding yet enriching adventure of life in community has been pursued. At the present time the community is made up of about eighty members, men and women. Several brothers and sisters are members of Reformed churches, five brothers are priests, and one is a Reformed pastor. Four fraternities were born from the monastery of Bose: Ostuni, Cellole, Assisi e Civitella.

The monastic community of Bose is an ecumenical community engaged in ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural dialogue, and in cooperation for justice and peace According to this purpose, it periodically organizes events and conferences in which metropolites, bishops, monks and nuns, theologians and theologians belonging to all the Orthodox churches, the Catholic Church and the churches of the Reformation tradition participate.

The religious influence of the community is unanimously recognized by the pope and by Catholic bishops, not only Italians, who periodically visit the Monastery and invite Bose brothers and sisters, as experts and counselors.

Meeting with a monk from Bose, an Orthodox monk and a Buddhist monk on the search for inner peace