ABBEY NOTES (continued from page 63) ence focused on the Didache and other related early liturgical documents. At Drew University he continues to teach in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. During the fall semester he led a seminar on The Evolution of Medieval Thought, a reassessment of David Knowles’ classic synthesis of medieval thought (1962.) He returns to the Drew Theological Seminary where he taught for many years, with a workshop on
icons in ecumenical spirituality. He again offered a three-lecture course in the Abbey adult education program, and assists in the abbey formation program. After ten years as weekend assistant at Saint Patrick, Chatham, Fr. Gabriel is moving on in the same role at St. Mary’s Church, Wharton. Fr. Gabriel, Fr. Benet Caffrey, O.S.B. and abbey friend Oscar Guevara made a pre-Irene visit to the Great Falls in Paterson, one
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Fr. Edward Seton Fittin, OSB, and Patrick Dolan ’89 outside Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry, Co. Cork. Fr. Edward celebrated Mass for the Dolan family in County Cork last summer.
Last spring, while the CMSM leadership made its annual visit to Rome, Abbot Giles Hayes had the opportunity for a brief private audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
of New Jersey’s natural wonders. Paterson, and much of Passaic County and other low-lying areas of the North Jersey, was severely flooded by Hurricane Irene in late August. The abbey was without power for 7 days and without fiber optic connection for 10 days. While a generator kept the lights (and air
conditioning) on for the monastic complex, the rest of campus was without power entirely. Power and fiber optic was restored just in time for the opening of school. Fr. Elias Lorenzo, O.S.B. participated in the bi-annual board meeting of The Praesidium, Inc., May 19-20, 2011
in Dallas TX. In July he participated with National Italian American Foundation pilgrimage through the Greek Isles “in the Footsteps of St. Paul.” In August Fr. Elias participated in International Benedictine Youth Congress at Montserrat, Spain. Later in August he visited Benedictine abbeys in northern Italy: San Giorgio, Venice, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Praglia, and Santa Giustina, Padua. From September 26 to October 1, Fr. Elias participated in the annual Synod of Abbot Presidents, in Palandrai, Lithuania, a new Solesmes foundation, where he delivered a report on the college. Also in September, Fr. Elias gave a presentation on best practices for canonical visitations to an assembly for the St. Ottilien Congregation, Quarten, Switzerland In June, Fr. Edward Seton Fittin, O.S.B. spent a week on private retreat at St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa, St. Mary’s Abbey’s motherhouse. Later in June he accompanied six students to Glenstal Abbey School, Limerick, Ireland, for the annual exchange. Before returning home, Fr. Edward Seton celebrated Mass for the extended family Dolan (Patrick ’89), in County Cork. In MidJuly, he travels to Louisville, Ky. to attend the annual convention of the National Pastoral Musicians. He resided with the Dominican Friars at St. Louis Bertrand, where his college roommate is the local superior. Fr. Edward Seton, and his host, Fr. Bill Garrott, O.P. traveled to Gethsemane Abbey, the Trappist community made famous by Thomas Merton. In August, Fr. Edward Seton, along with Fr. Jerome Borski, O.S.B., subprior, and Abbot (continued on page 65)