Mosteiro de São Bento

This guide walks you into the Mosteiro de São Bento in São Paulo on a Sunday morning, as roughly forty five Benedictine monks file into the nave already chanting the daily Mass of the Monks. It traces the Rule the community still keeps, the German-built organ installed for the city's four-hundredth anniversary, and a bakery past the cloister where recipes are passed down only by word of mouth. Listen for the moment the singing and the walking fuse into one unbroken line before the doors close behind the last monk.