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The Saint Benedict Education Foundation Sant’ Anselmo: The International Benedictine University In Rome
Volume 5, Issue 1Fall 2012
UnderstandingFaith Seeking
You are InvitedSaint Benedict Education Foundation
Annual Lecture
“Liturgy and the New Evangelization”Archbishop Wilton Gregory
Archbishop of AtlAntA
Tuesday, November 27, 201211:00 a.m.
Fred. M. Rogers CenterSaint Vincent College
Admission is free, however, reservations are required.
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Dear Friends,
On October 11, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated “the Year of Faith” with the opening of the Synod on the New Evangelization. His Holiness said that “the Year of Faith…is a summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord.”
We are honored to mark the inauguration of the Year of Faith with a lecture by Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta on Tuesday, November 27 at 11:00 a.m. at the Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College. Bishop Donald W. Trautman, Bishop Emeritus of Erie, will introduce Archbishop Gregory and join in the discussion
on “The Liturgy and the New Evangelization.”
The Saint Benedict Education Foundation plays a vital role in the New Evangelization by helping to prepare young Benedictine men and women to proclaim the Gospel message through the world. As the international center of Benedictine life, Sant’ Anselmo has students from nearly 50 nations represented among its student body.
These Benedictines are trained in philosophy, theology, liturgy, the sacraments, monastic studies and other areas. They will return to their monasteries in developing nations to help prepare future generations to give witness to the faith, which Jesus Christ has proclaimed.
Saint Benedict Education Foundation
Publisher: Most Reverend Notker Wolf, O.S.B., Abbot Primate
President: Father Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. [email protected]
Director of Development: Paul R. [email protected]
Editor: Kim [email protected]
Design and Layout: Simon Stuchlik
Assistant: Carmen [email protected]
From the PresidentSaint Benedict Education Foundation
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For those Benedictines who come from the traditional centers of Western Civilization, particularly Europe and the Americas, the Year of Faith provides an opportunity to reinvigorate the faith by preparing teachers and preachers who will be able to take on the challenges of an increasingly secularized culture—a culture which in many ways is indifferent or even hostile to the Gospel message.
The Year of Faith also is a time “to intensify the witness of charity,” according to Pope Benedict XVI. “Faith without charity bears no fruit, while charity without faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt.
Peace,
Father Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B.
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Photographs by: Father Blasio Park, O.S.B.
Kim MetzgarAletti Centre
Board of IncorporatorsAbbot Primate Notker Wolf, O.S.B.
Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B.Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B.
Board of DirectorsDr. Stephen Butler, chairmanMr. Robert Cahill Jr., emeritusSister Judith Ann Heble, O.S.B.Rev. Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B.
J. Harry HaslamRosemary V. Madonia
Rev. Edward Mazich, O.S.B.Dr. Leo J. Shea, IIIMr. Paul Whiteside
Mrs. Camille Kiely Kelleher
Board
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The Pittsburgh-Latrobe-Greensburg chapter of the Saint Benedict Education Foundation hosted its second annual Sunset at the Barn on August 18 at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, Latrobe. Over 150 patrons of the
SBEF gathered for the event, which supports the education of Benedictine students at Sant’ Anselmo, the international Benedictine University in
Rome. The Foundation expresses its heartfelt gratitude to the Committee for the “Sunset at the Barn” event and to those who generously supported
the event. The Pittsburgh-Latrobe-Greensburg chapter has raised over $20,000 in the past year to fund a full scholarship.
Sunset at the Barn
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Letters from Rome
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ and Saint Benedict,
I would like to thank Sant’ Anselmo for this opportunity to briefly summarize my experience at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. It has been a marvelous experience for me from all points of views: spiritual, cultural and intellectual. I had to learn a new language, Italian, and adjust to a new culture and lifestyle, because in my land of Burkina Faso, in the African Savannah, we have a very different lifestyle and, even more, a very different sense of life as a whole. However, every day that passed was a further step towards a richer relationship with my fellow students. This very positive experience helped the rest of my academic studies, which were finished, on June 4, 2012, with the defense of my doctoral thesis.
During the third year of my doctorate, in January 2010, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, asked me to work with the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. Thus I had to carry two demanding responsibilities: to write my thesis and to work in the Curia. I thank the Lord that
He gave me the strength to do this; otherwise I would have had to give up my doctorate. Once more, I felt myself supported and encouraged by my professors at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, my classmates and my other friends and colleagues. The experience of Sant’ Anselmo prepares those who will work for the young Churches.
I am very grateful to the Saint Benedict Education Foundation, which supported me with a scholarship for the three years of my doctoral studies. The Foundation should know that, thanks to its generosity, I received the first ever doctorate in sacred liturgy in my country, and my country truly has great need of such experts. We hope to be able to send more students to Sant’ Anselmo for priestly and academic formation.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. May God bless all those involved in the work of the Foundation.
In Christ,
D . KristoD. Kristo R. Ouedraogo
Gratitude for Becoming his Country’s first Doctor of Liturgy
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Most Rev. Notker Wolf, O.S.B.Re-elected Abbot Primate at 2012 Congress of Abbots
On Friday, September 21, 2012, 250 members of the International
Congress of Abbots re-elected Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, O.S.B.,
to continue to serve as the international spokesman and leader of the
worldwide Benedictine Confederation.
Abbot Primate Notker is the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Col-
lege of Sant’ Anselmo, Rome, and representative of the Benedictine Order
in Rome. The Benedictine Order consists of 380 monasteries and 7,358
monks. There are also 13,650 Benedictine sisters throughout the world.
Abbot Notker serves as Chair for Aid to Benedictine Monasteries in
Africa, Asia and Latin America; the Interreligious Monastic Dialogue; and
the Benedictine Commission on China. He is also a member of the Euro-
pean Academy of Sciences; member of the Advisory Board of the Gothaer
Versicherungsbank (Germany) and member of the Congregation for Reli-
gious (Rome). He has traveled the world to promote the Benedictine way
of life. He has received numerous awards including the Bavarian Order of
Merit and the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,
the Bavarian Constitution Medal, the Wolfram-Engels Award, and the Pax
Christi Award of Saint John’s Abbey and University. He is fluent in English,
Italian, German, French, Spanish, Latin and Greek.
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Sant’ Anselmo Alumnus Installed
as New Archbishop of Denver
Archbishop Samuel J.
Aquila was installed as the
Archbishop of Denver on July
18 at the Cathedral Basilica in
Denver. The graduate of Sant’
Anselmo was appointed by Pope
Benedict XVI.
Archbishop Aquila served
the Denver Archdiocese for
25 years. Born in Burbank,
California, he earned a bachelor
of arts degree from the
University of Colorado (1972);
a master of arts degree in theology from Saint Thomas
Seminary (1976). He went on to earn the S.T.L. degree in
sacramental theology from the Sant’ Anselmo in 1990.
Five other Sant’ Anselmo alumni are currently serving
as bishops in the U.S., including Archbishop Emeritus
Daniel Buechlein, O.S.B., Indianapolis; Archbishop Wilton D.
Gregory, O.S.B., Atlanta; Archbishop Jerome Hanus, O.S.B.,
Dubuque; Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Seattle; and Bishop
Thomas J. Tobin, Providence.
Abbot Primate Notker Wolf,
O.S.B., and members of
the Saint Benedict Education
Foundation held their annual fall
meeting in Savannah, Georgia.
The meeting was hosted by SBEF
Board member Harry Haslam
and his wife, Kimi. Savannah
is also the most recent city in
the U.S. to establish its own
SBEF chapter, joining Chicago,
Tampa, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Latrobe.
Future sites for local chapters are also being planned for
the West Coast and the East Coast (Northeast). Chapters
are organized to support specific educational programs or
scholarships for Sant’ Anselmo.
Start a Sant’ Anselmo ChapterTo form a chapter, contact:
Rev. Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. Telephone: 724-805-2607 Fax: 724-805-2891
email: [email protected]
Saint Benedict Education Foundation opens new Chapter in Savannah
Board member Harry Haslam
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Archbishop Wilton J. Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta will give the fourth annual lecture of the Saint Benedict Education Foundation at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27, at the Fred M. Rogers
Center. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop Emeritus of Erie and former Chair fo the USCCB Liturgy Committee, will introduce Archbishop Gregory and join in the discussion on “Liturgy and the New Evangelization.” A luncheon will follow.
Born December 7, 1947, in Chicago to Wilton Sr. and Ethel Duncan Gregory, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory attended Saint Carthage Grammar School, where he converted to Catholicism. He attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Niles College (now Saint Joseph’s College Seminary) of Loyola University and Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary.
He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 9, 1973. Three years after his ordination he began graduate studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Sant’ Anselmo) in Rome. There he earned his doctorate in sacred liturgy in 1980. After having served as an associate pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glenview, Ill., as a member of the faculty of Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein and as a master of ceremonies to Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin, he was ordained an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on December 13, 1983. On February 10, 1994, he was installed as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., where he served for the next eleven years.
On December 9, 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Gregory as the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He was installed on January 17, 2005. Archbishop Gregory has also held a leading role in the U.S. church. In November of 2001, he was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops following three years as vice president under Bishop Joseph Fiorenza of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. During his tenure in office, the crisis of sex abuse by Catholic clergy escalated, and under his leadership, the bishops implemented the
Archbishop Wilton J. Gregory To Give Lecture November 27 at Saint Vincent
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“Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”He served on the USCCB Executive and Administrative
Committees, the Administrative Board, the Committee on Doctrine and the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on International Policy. He previously served as the chairman of the Bishops’ Committees on Personnel and the Third Millennium/Jubilee Year 2000 from 1998-2001, and Liturgy from 1991-93.
Archbishop Gregory has written extensively on church issues, including pastoral statements on the death penalty and euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide, and has published numerous articles on the subject of liturgy, particularly in the African-American community.
He has also been awarded seven honorary doctoral degrees.
Archbishop Gregory was awarded the Sword of Loyola from Loyola University of Chicago in 2004. In 2006, he joined an illustrious group of preachers with his induction into the Martin Luther King Board of Preachers at Morehouse College, Atlanta. At the National Pastoral Life Center in Washington, D.C., in June 2006, Archbishop Gregory was honored with the Cardinal Bernardin Award given by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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Rector and Faculty Members Appointed as Experts
The Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops
has, with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff,
appointed the rector and several faculty members of
Sant’ Anselmo as experts for the Synod of Bishops,
held in October in Rome. The theme is “The new
evangelization for the transmission of the Christian
faith.”
Appointed were Father Juan Javier Flores
Arcas, O.S.B., of Spain, rector of Sant’ Anselmo;
Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., professor at the
theological faculty at Sant’ Anselmo and professor
of liturgy at Mount Angel Seminary, Oregon; and
Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J., of Slovenia,
director of the “Ezio Aletti” Study Centre in Rome.
Both Father Jeremy and Father Marko Ivan were
also appointed to the Pontifical Council for Promoting
the New Evangelization by Pope Benedict XVI.
Father Juan Javier has served as rector at Sant’
Anselmo since 2009. He is responsible for the three
Faculties or academic divisions of Sant’ Anselmo; namely,
the faculties of theology, philosophy, and liturgy. Father Juan
Javier was ordained to the priesthood in 1983. He received
his licentiate in Liturgy in 1988 and his doctorate in Liturgy
in 1995, both from Sant’ Anselmo. Since 1997 he has
been a member of the faculty at Sant’ Anselmo, teaching
courses in the
areas of liturgy
and sacramental
theology. In
2000 Father Juan
Javier was elected
president of the
Pontifical Liturgical
Institute—a
position he held
until 2008—and
in 2003 he was
also appointed Father Juan Javier Flores Arcas, O.S.B.
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Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.
Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J.
as professor of liturgical and sacramental theology
at Sant’ Anselmo. Father Juan Javier served as a
consultant to the 2005 Synod of Bishops on the
Eucharist, and the 2008 Synod on the Word of God in
the Life of the Church.
Father Jeremy was the keynote speaker in 2009
for the annual Saint Benedict Education Foundation
lecture. He is the author of more than 50 scholarly
articles and 11 books. What Happens at Mass and A
Monk’s Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning
World are among his latest books. A Monk’s Alphabet
sold more than 12,000 copies in its first four months
of publication.
Father Marko Ivan is director of the Aletti Centre,
and professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, the
Pontifical Gregorian University, and the Pontifical
Liturgical Institute at Sant’ Anselmo.
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The challenges and contributions of the Benedictine Order worldwide were considered at the Congress of Abbots held at
Sant’ Anselmo in Rome in September 2012. Nearly 250 abbots from around the world gathered together to consider how each monastic community can better contribute to the new evangelization in the particular circumstances of each country and community.
In the pictures on the opposite page, at left, is Abbot Wolfgang Hagl, O.S.B., of Metten Abbey, founded in 766. Metten Abbey is the “Mother Abbey” of Saint Vincent Archabbey (U.S.A.). At the top is newly-elected Abbot Mark Cooper, O.S.B., of Saint Anselm Abbey, New Hampshire. In the bottom photo, Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, O.S.B., celebrates Mass at Santa Cecilia Church in Rome, assisted by Benedictine deacon Cassian DiRocco from Saint Andrew’s Abbey, California.
On this page, at right, is Father Luke MacNamara, O.S.B., from Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick, Ireland. Father Luke oversaw the simultaneous translations (5 languages) at the Congress of Abbots.
250 Abbots
380 Monasteries
205 Abbeys
45 independent priories
130 dependent priories
21 Benedictine Congregations
7,358 Benedictine Monks
62 Benedictine Congregations
of women
13,650 Benedictine Sisters
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2012 Congress of AbbotsSant’ Anselmo / Rome
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Serving God’s PeopleThe Saint Benedict Education Foundation funds scholarships and academic programs for Benedictine monks and sisters who will become the teachers and preachers of the Gospel
Message to future generations.
“The Child of Bethlehem...summons us once again to do everything in our power to put an
end to the suffering of children; to do everything possible to make the light of Bethlehem touch the heart of every man and woman.”
Pope Benedict XVI
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