the italian catholic layman and community leader who is one of the new and very different saint benedict's of time. when i visited his community in italy i asked how do you guys do it this is marvelous and he said to me when he discovered nothing. we are only rediscovering a tradition that was locked away inside an old box. the auction is a project of preserving in memory what it is to be christian. hophope this memory plus desiref we remember who we are, the desire to make those memories again we have every reason to hope that we cannot ignore the warning when we first told him about the option. they told me that if the families and communities in the west are catholic, protestant, orthodox do not use some form of the benedict option, then they are not going to make it. thank you. [applause] >> we are going to bring the panel up and i would like to turn things over to peter who was responsible for the history two years ago and really this evenings event was his he took the initiative to make this happen so thank you and you may introduce your panelist. i should quickly add that this event