Kansas Monks Spring 2010

SPRING 2010

Forward, always forward!

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Eternal rest grant unto him... Brother Robert Heiman, a steward of the land and a man of the people, dies at 72.

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contributing writers: Abbot Barnabas Senecal “Generous deeds beget generous deeds.”

From the Abbot (3) | in a Word (5) | Abbey Notes (23)

Brother John Peto “A Christian is known by his happiness in the Lord!”

Oblates (8)

Father Daniel McCarthy “The liturgy nourishes us all along the process of our human maturation.”

A Grateful Response (13)

Abbot Owen Purcell “It’s all a day at a time.”

Marked by a Sign of Faith (12)

Father Gabriel Landis -

“Christ, risen in glory, gives continual thanks to his Father.”

From the Desert (10)

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Far From Restful . . . .6 Bishop Herbert Hermes may have reached the Church’s retirement age, but he isn’t slowing down. In his new position, freed from the burdens of administration, he continue his life’s passion, fighting for justice in north central Brazil.

14 . . . Thank You! Friends, benefactors, “sponsors” are recognized for their generosity and support of Saint Benedict’s Abbey in 2009.

From the Abbot

Generous Deeds Beget Generous Deeds Our December snow lay quietly on our Abbey¹s east lawn, and the morning sun cast shadows from the trees and drifts. Beyond the trees lay the Missouri River and the four-mile glazier cut to the further bank. Peace seemed to fall in place.

In the decades that have passed since the monks built this stone monastery on the river bluff in the 1920s, thousands of folks have come to admire the rising sun from this place.

There were few tracks of human footsteps. The college students were at home; they run and walk this flat ground in warmer times.

They were making other tracks, visiting and traveling, at home and in other places. They came back to us.

One student who is planning to make the Spring Break trip to El Salvador, where students and two monks help build a house or two, asked to speak at her home parish. She asked that the parish members give financial support to this project.

Tears of gratitude and almost unbelief came to the eyes of this Benedictine College student when, after the Mass that Sunday morning, one person came to her to say he was going to sell a load of grain that week and would send her a check for $5,000. She shared this story with Brother Leven Harton upon her return to campus in mid-January.

This kind of generosity also breeds generosity in younger folks.

This BC student will go to El Salvador, committed to doing her best because an adult has shown such support.

Young people do respond generously. This story surfaced in recent weeks. A lady was in her home when two young men knocked on her door and asked if they might clean her sidewalks.

SPRING 2010 She told them she didn’t have any money to pay them for such work.

They proceeded to clean her walks and then knocked on her door again.

This time they told her that they had finished and that they wanted her to have the money they had received for other work they had done.

They handed the lady $67.00. She told this story to her daughter, an employee at Mount St. Scholastica Monastery, and she shared thhe story with me.

There are many forms of beauty. The sun upon wind-blown snow is beautiful.

The snow melts, and the grass grows. Acts of charity come to an end, and they, too, cause growth as one act of charity inspires another.

Your charity toward our monastic community is an experience of beauty. That so many share with us in this way is truly inspiring and sustaining. We reach out to you in ways that hopefully strengthen bonds between us and give all of us support when the winds of winter blow hard. We await and welcome the nurturing of Spring, sure to come.

Abbot Barnabas Senecal, OSB

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we remember...

Brother Robert Heiman O.S.B.

Brother Robert Heiman, a monk of St. Benedict’s Abbey, who for his entire life worked the soil and became a steward of the land, died at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. He was 72.

He professed his monastic vows July 11, 1957, and departed this life sustained by the sacraments and the prayers of his confreres.

Brother Robert earned much affection and respect from his community over the years for his knowledge of agriculture and his love for the people who live close to the land. He was born to Edward and Bertha (Lierz) Heiman on Nov. 3, 1937, in Seneca, Kan., and grew up on a family farm at St. Benedict, Kan. northwest of there.

He came to St. Benedict’s Abbey as a postulant in 1955 and at once began work on the Abbey farmlands. In the late 1960s he took charge of the Missouri River bottomland acreage of the Abbey, today known as Benedictine Bottoms, a Missouri River fish and wildlife reclamation project.

Brother Robert also became a licensed amateur radio operator at about this time, providing an important communications link between the Abbey and its foundation in Brazil. A short time later he was assigned to missionary work at the priory in Mineiros, Brazil – Mosteiro São José.

From 1971 to 1978 Brother Robert distinguished himself when he was placed in charge of much of the Priory’s farming operation.

He tended the Priory’s dairy herd on a large circular pasture, keeping the grasses green through a continual cycle of tilling and reseeding.

Depending on a seemingly endless well of resourcefulness, he and a loyal hired hand kept the farm’s old truck, tractor and combine going with rusty parts and elbow grease. Brother Robert picked up the language and culture on bus rides throughout the countryside seeking parts for the ancient combine. Equally resourceful with leftovers, Brother Robert often could be found reheating a supper he’d missed from working too long in the fields.

Brother Robert (left) looks over a soybean field in Brazil with Fathers David Kinish and Eric Deitchman

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November 3, 1937 – January 14, 2010

Brother Robert hard at work in the abbey tomato garden.

In 2008 he was able to return to Brazil, 30 years after he left, accompanying Abbot Barnabas Senecal on his annual trip to visit the community there. Brother Robert was pleased to see the growth of family settlements and the number of young Brazilians committing to the Benedictine way of life, building on his past hard work.

Upon his return to Atchison in 1978, Brother Robert was appointed assistant novice master. He continued to work on Abbey farmland and in its gardens for the remainder of his life.

Brother Robert is survived by his brothers Donald, Overland Park, Kan.; John, Beattie, Kan.; Regis, Topeka, Kan.; Paul, Grand Junction, Colo.; and Thomas, Wichita, Kan.; his sister, Mary Jo Hughes, Lee’s Summit, Mo.; 31 nieces and nephews; and by the monastic community of St. Benedict’s Abbey. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his three brothers, Edward, Kenneth and John.

Upon hearing of Brother Robert’s passing Father Duane Roy reflected on his friendship with Robert. “Brother Robert will continue to speak to us in many moments and in many ways. Imagine the joy upon his arrival home!” +++ Requiescat in pace

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him when he worked the fields of the Priory because he “loved to eat and ate everything I cooked for him.”

The following homily was delivered by Abbot Barnabas Senecal at the He deferred to others, funeral for Brother Robert Heiman although I heard last night that he was a very effective left handed pitcher in his high school days, and loved to hit the balls thrown at Abbot Barnabas Senecal One who works daily with his hands comes to know that things him. live partly because of his work and in greater part because the He loved the Abbey cats and fed them thoughtfully, even hands of God are forever present, also. Seeds grow not because putting them on diets when they grew large. He didn’t like the the human hands have touched them, but because a power greater raccoons that ate his sweet corn, but he couldn’t bring himself to than himself surrounds those seeds, provides moisture and nour- shoot them when face to face with them at night. ishment and favorable weather. Work becomes prayer. Work is The morning Brother Robert died, I was called and joined Helen cooperation with grace.

Skidmore, our nurse, and Dr. Growney at his bedside. Others had For years we have been the consumers of what Brother Robert stayed through several nights with him. The words of the song, and others have provided for our table. The writers of Genesis had You Are Mine, seemed so appropriate for that moment, and for said, “See, I give you every this moment. seed bearing plant over all I will come to you in the the earth and every tree that silence, I will lift you from has seed bearing fruit on it all your fear. You will hear to be your food.” And this my voice, I claim you as my was true for us at St. Benechoice. Be still and know I dict’s Abbey and beyond the am here.

Abbey.

These are words of Brother Robert lived comfort for all. Brother out a wonderful sense of Robert listened every day dependency. And alongside for the word of the Lord. He of that was as deep a sense heard that voice. He knew of gratitude. He was depenhe was one chosen. He knew dent on community because silence, even aloneness, he wanted to do what was during months of sickness, right for the community. hoping for healing.

He did not stand apart from I am hope for all who are community. He was a part hopeless. I am eyes for all of it, and from his work and who long to see. prayer with community he Brother Robert (right) poses for a photo with Father Kieran McInerney and AbIn the shadows of the found purpose and fulfill- bot Barnabas Senecal in Mineiros, Brazil. night, I will be your light, ment. For that he was always come and rest in me. grateful. In tending tomato vines, he was nurtured, knowing that Brother Robert worked hard and came to know the value of he was nurturing others who shared “vine-life” with him. He rest. Rest is life-giving. Rest is being without work, learning that all loved to deliver garden produce to the Abbey kitchen and Maur is not work, that rest is important.

Hill-Mount Academy. He worked closely with Brother Anthony I am strength for all the despairing, healing for the ones who through many years in the Abbey garden and on the grounds. He dwell in shame. delivered laundry, maintained equipment, and hauled out trash.

All the blind will see, the lame will all run free, and all will know He was, for years, an amateur radio operator and enabled phone my name. contact with monks in Brazil.

Brother Robert knew difficult times and accepted the help of He was with Brother John Kaighin in early January, eight years others. He had many strengths and helped others to be free, to be ago, cutting wood. Brother John suffered a heart attack. Brother strong, to know Christ as he knew Christ.

Robert felt perhaps he had not done enough to assist Brother John I am the Word that leads all to freedom. I am the peace the who was pronounced dead in the Atchison Hospital after the staff world cannot give. worked very hard to recover a heart beat. Brother Robert had a I will call your name, embracing all your pain, stand up, now deep sense of responsibility for others. It defined him. walk, and live.

Along with that responsibility was a kindness that deferred to The Lord called Brother Robert by name. In death he was freed others, even to animals. He loved his family members and looked of all pain. forward to vacation time with them. He loved the men of this He had pain in his foot and legs. He had infection with a high monastery, the Sisters of the Mount and the Guadalupanas. Sister fever. He would be embraced and given life, anew.

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“Live on in me as I do in you.”

photos by JD Benning

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Far From Restful – Retirement frees Bishop Herbert to fight the good fight

by Dan Madden

of his prelacy, but there is also a need If the comfortable, elite and corrupt of central Brazil thought a burr to provide food water had fallen from their saddle when Bishop Herbert Hermes reached and clothing, basic needs like health care the Catholic Church’s age of retirement, they were mistaken.

After receiving a special invitation from his five fellow bishops and sanitation.

“The glory of in the state of Tocantins, the mustachioed monk says with a liberated God is perfect,” he grin, “They opened the door and I’m crashing in.”

Far from a restful retirement back at the monastery, Bishop said. “We cannot Hermes, 76, now freed from what he considered the burdens of add anything to God. Bishop Herbert is with the people and the peoadministration, will roam the midlands of Brazil fighting the good The way we give Him ple are with him. “Retirement” means freedom fight he waged with zeal for the past 20 years. At the behest of his glory is by perfect- to fulfill his passion for social justice. fellow bishops, he will channel all of his energies exclusively toward ing his creation. We social justice, freeing his fellow bishops from such entanglements. glorify God by perfecting humanity, by making humanity more like He will do so in a country where one percent of the people own 40 Jesus. We make the good news come about not just by speaking it but percent of the land, where the indigenous people have fought a long by feeding the hungry, by freeing the slaves and by realizing it, by and weary battle to reclaim their homelands, where food rots in stor- making the good news real.”

The Gospel of Matthew is explicit in its demanding call, the age bins while countless people go hungry and where the poor are exploited by politicians who buy votes cheaply with food, medi- bishop noted. “…For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was cal treatment, transportation, clothing, drugs, even false teeth and thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you eyeglasses.

The Bishop’s newfound freedom will likely mean more angry took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.”

Bishop Herbert plans to follow that passage to the letter in his words from wealthy and powerful men who feel threatened by his interference; more pleas from frustrated politicians who may or new social justice post, as he always has. And while some may be may not have something to hide; and even perhaps even more death cringing that he not be taking the restful path into retirment, many threats. But the silver-haired, native Kansan’s twinkling blue eyes more, those who have seen their standing and opportunities increase belie the ravages to health that the years have taken. Despite diabetes, at the nudging of their beloved bishop in the past two decades, are high blood pressure, chronic back pain, foot problems and longtime lighting fireworks.

During his time in the prelacy, Bishop Hermes became a citizen struggles with insomnia, Bishop Herbert relishes the work—even the bishop, serving as both a spiritual shepherd to his people and a grassbattles—ahead, all but clapping his hands together with glee.

A man who takes as his model of ministry the martyred Jesuit, roots leader, attending meetings and helping motivate community Archbishop Oscar Romero, of El Salvador, Bishop Herbert says he action and fund-raising.

Along with his many works on behalf of vocations, lay leaderhas always worked for the rights and the dignity of the poor people ship and education, Bishop Herbert in 1994 founded the Center for Human Rights of Cristalândia. Much of his work in the future will revolve around the center and its efforts in “faith and citizenship.”

The center has since established branch offices throughout the state of Tocantins, forming a movement that has helped involve the working and poor classes in their own progress through political activism by raising political awareness, and teaching community planning, organiBishop Herbert worked diligently to prepare young men for ministry in the Prelacy of Cristalândia. He commissioned them zation, mobilization, in minor orders and eventually ordained them to priesthood.

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SPRING 2010 empowerment and evaluation. The quotes the words of Hélder Câmara, movement has involved hundreds the late Brazilian bishop, “When I of churches and civic leaders. For give food to the poor, they call me a this and other work, Bishop Herbert saint. When I ask why the poor have received the 12th Annual Award of no food, they call me a communist.”

Human Rights from the National He recalls the first meeting of Movement of Human Rights in bishops that he attended after his 2002. appointment. Surrounded by scholars Bishop Herbert’s work has not and canon lawyers, he asked himself, been without personal risk. His advo“What am I doing here?” cacy for people in land settlements But then came a tap on his shouland for indigenous people, especially der from another, older bishop, and the Kraho-Kanela, who are trying the kind words, “Don’t worry, they to recuperate their homelands from are academics, you are a pastor.” corporate interests, has twice earned Those words have motivated him him a spot on lists of people threatto this day. ened with assassination.

Bishop Herbert has found a new Bishop Herbert recalls one meethomeland and a people to fight for. ing regarding land reform at which he The three great conflicts of Brazil are and a human rights organizer had to land, agriculture and the rights of the cross a river on a ferry boat to reach indigenous people. The victims are the meeting, while people from the the poor. other side threatened to throw him “I fight against the injustices and the organizer to a large alligator that cause these victims,” he says. in the river.

“I don’t hold out silver platters. I The bishop looks back on the try to provide opportunities for the event with a chuckle. people to help themselves. I am on “It would not have been ecologithe people’s side and the people are cally sound for me to kill that alliga- The twinkle in Bishop Herbert’s eyes is brighter as he contin- on my side.” ues his fight for the poor and oppressed, unencumbered by the tor and the piranhas in that river,” he burdens of adminstrative duties .

As he says these words, Bishop said with a smile.

Herbert, his face bronze from the He admits other bishops have been cool to his involvement in Brazilian sun, looks the picture of good health. politics at times, but they are eager to see him step into his new role.

Call it coincidence, but his new home, the town from where he “They want it done but they don’t want to do it,” he says bluntly. will set forth on his new adventures, is called Paraiso – or in English, Bishop Herbert has been called many names over the years, Paradise. not always in kindness. But he says that goes with the territory. He Editor’s Note: Photos courtesy of Father Duane Roy

Father Duane accepts prior post in Brazil Father Duane Roy began a two-year tenure as Prior of St. Joseph’s Priory, Mineiros, Goias, Brazil, Feb. 1.

Father Duane, a native of Stockton, Kan., accepted the post in December when the monks of St. Joseph’s gathered for a Visitation of their community. Father Josias da Costa had completed five years in the office. Father Duane will reside at the monastery of San Bento, the community’s house of studies in the state capitol, Goiania.

Father Duane comes to the office after eight years as Vicar General of of the Prelacy of Cristalandia in the State of Tocantins, Brazil, where he served under Bishop Herbert Hermes, also a monk of St. Benedict’s Abbey, who in retirement will continue to work in social justice.

Since arriving in Brazil in 1970, Father Duane served as prior and novice master from 1978 through 1985, and as business manager from 1980 to 1990. He gave lectures on sociology and psychology at state high schools in Mineiros and later served as a professor of sociology at a college in Mineiros between 1987 and 1998. During that same time, he served as pastor of St. Rita parish from 1985 to 1992 and of Holy Spirit parish from 1997 to 2001, before being tabbed to assist Bishop Herbert.

Father Duane is a 1963 graduate of St. Benedict’s College and he professed vows to St. Benedict’s Abbey in July 1961. He was ordained to the priesthood June 2, 1967, and earned a master’s degree from Emporia State University two years later.

He translated the book, To Be Seed: The Memory and Witness of Bishop Matthias Schmidt, in 2001-2002.

He has published several articles, in English and in Portuguese.

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Obl ates

My years as director have enriched my own Benedictine life as well as being very informative for me. I have had the great privilege of visiting Bonds of oblation many monasteries of men and women in this country and I’m not one to recall celebrations of events in life, but as the have not only tasted oblate years pass I realize that sometimes it is necessary at significant life but also monastic life from milestones to reflect on the years passed. This year marks 20 years many perspectives. of my association with the oblates of the abbey. I think it may be Through the assistance of time to reflect a little about what all of this has meant to me and to many other directors I have you who read this message time and again.

Brother John Peto become more comfortable in Upon the recent death of our Brother Robert, I found an older Director of Oblates my role as director. National copy of Kansas Monks among the items in his desk. My other conventions have been great places to find out how others work ministry is to our sick and aged members. I always gather personal with their own oblate groups.

One certainty is that oblates are truly items after their death. I read my column of nearly 20 years ago and Benedictine.

While each group views being an oblate as something realized just how many times I have sat down to say a few words slightly different, they are all anchored by the same Rule of Beneto oblates. dict.

Benedictine monasteries, the same though different, have My first association with the oblates must be nearly 30 years been able to instill this same ideal into oblate groups. ago when Sister Devota During these years as direcKlamet, former oblate director tor I have formed some strong at Mount St. Scholastica, asked friendships with other direcme to give a presentation on tors and my own appreciation prayer to the Mount oblates. of Benedictine life has become In 1990 Abbot Owen asked wider and more mature. I have me to assist Father Benjamin attended nine national convenTremmel as assistant oblate tions during the 20 years.

Each director. The next year I was had a theme and each was a named director and Father challenge.

Daniel McCarthy was appointed An oblate director’s handmy assistant for a short while. book has been developed during Since then I have been on my these years and I was a member own until the last few years of the committee that drew up when I asked several oblates to the present Constitution and assist me as an oblate commitBylaws for the North American tee. That committee now has Association of Oblate Direcfour appointed members who tors.

I was honored to serve for meet with me each month prior a term as vice-president of the to our meeting day. association and am thankful We discuss what might be to Sister Antoinette Purcell for relevant for the next meeting. Brother John embraces Sister Devota Klamet. Sister Devota started Brother John on the path to Oblate Director. her patience with my unorgaThey assist me in evaluating nized life. new members. We spend a lot of time simply in mutual support I have always felt strong support from the monastic commuand I have found these oblates to be of great assistance to me. My nity of St. Benedict’s Abbey.

I would like to pay tribute to our late goal is to foster in each oblate, as much as possible, the conviction Father Timothy Fry who always asked about my work and offered that being an oblate is truly a vocation within a vocation and a call a word of encouragement each month before meetings. It was also to bring about the reign of Jesus Christ in our world. from Timothy, especially long walks with him when he was workMaybe in the past I have thought that oblate life would be alike ing on RB 1980, that I grew into a deeper appreciation of the Rule for most oblates, but I have found out through discussions with the as a living document. committee that each oblate has to do much work to decide what Sister Jean Frances Dolan, the former coordinator of the assocommitment he or she can make. There is always the danger that ciation, was always such a strong support and I was privileged to oblation can become everything and the rest of the person’s life work with her on several national meetings. suffers.

- Have you ever considered becoming an Oblate of St. Benedict?

- Does it mean I make vows? Do I have more prayers to say? Does it cost money?

- Do I have to make radical life changes?

Come and see or contact me, Br. John Peto, jpeto@kansasmonks.org 913-360-7896 8

SPRING 2010 She has also served as a real spiritual mentor in bringing my own Benedictine life into conformity with what I have tried to share with the oblates.

I would like to offer special thanks to the late Sister Mary Anthony Wagner and several former directors: namely, Sisters Leonette Hoesing and Ann Kessler of Sacred Heart Monastery, Yankton, S.D. Much thanks is due to Father Meinrad Brune, St. Meinrad Archabbey, Brother Benet Tvedten, Blue Cloud Abbey, Father Donald Raila, St. Vincent Archabbey, and Sister Phyllis Hunhoff and Sister Bonita Gacnik, both of Sacred Heart Monastery, to name few.

Over the years a number of people have tried the oblate life and found it not for them and others have found something for which they have been searching for years. I rarely mention monastic vocations but I firmly believe that the oblate life is part of the monastic vocation for the 21st century. Life has changed in a radical way in the past 50 years and I see deeply committed family life with many of the members trying to live the oblate life as the future of Benedictine life. I am happy to have shared in this life for the past 20 years in a way beyond my dreams after entering monastic life.

Many oblates have been of great assistance to me during these years but I must mention a couple. Barbara Baumgartner, a faithful oblate for nearly 60 years, has Brother John Peto V.P. (right above) upon being elected vice president of the been of great assistance. Patricia Wolvington has been of National Association of Oblate Directors four years ago. Pictured here with (left to right) Sister Jean Frances Dolan, outgoing coordinator, Sister Bonita Gacnik, great assistance to me for the last few years in her volun- secretary, and Sister Antoinette Purcell, president. teer capacity each Wednesday. I treasure the prayers of all of the oblates of St. Benedict’s Abbey and pray daily for you, and in particular each Wednesday, which is always oblate day for me.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, Austria, visited St. Benedict’s Abbey and Benedictine College, Jan. 31, as part of a 36-hour visit to the Kansas City area to inspect the establishment of Little Sisters of the Lamb. During his visit he delivered the homily at Mass and a lecture in the Student Union. Pictured at left, Prior James Albers assists the Cardinal in preparing for Mass. At right, the Cardinal visits with Benedictine President Steven Minnis and Chaplain Father Meinrad Miller. Below, the Cardinal celebrates Mass with several concelebrants, including, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, and Abbot Barnabas Senecal.

photos courtesy of Benedictine College

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From The Desert

Jesus just gave to his disciples the covenant of himself in the Eucharist. Judas became the first in history to break that covenant.

Let us return to the words of the Eucharistic Prayer, for in “He Gave you Thanks and Praise.” spite of the knowledge of the ervant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said; “If anyone Night of Betrayal, Jesus “gave will look closely into the experiences of life, he will discover thanks and praise” to God that God is in some way giving us a more inward sense of the Father. This is what awes things, as if He would not let us become lodged in the temporal, me. This is what has made me but shove us on to what is beyond. The eternal is with us more Father Gabriel Landis stop and spiritually chew over than we know, even when we refuse to face it.” The holy sacrifice this part of the Mass. The Mass of the Mass is one of those “experiences of life” where we are truly is a re-presentation of the sacrifice of Christ. We step out of the moved out of the temporal and into the eternal. God is giving us an temporal world, which Archbishop Sheen spoke of, and move into “inward sense of things.” the eternal. At each Mass, we are mystically there at his passion, Every priest will probably tell you that when praying the Mass, death, and resurrection. And at each of these re-presentations some phrase will pop out at him, and he experiences this “inward of the sacrifice of Christ, we hear the words spoken many times; sense of things.” I love praying the Mass and I love the devotion of “sacrifice,” “body,” “blood,” “victim” and so on. We also hear the those who come to Mass. And I assume that, at times, all religious words “give thanks.” Jesus, in the first Eucharist, was betrayed, yet and laity too have had some part of the Eucharistic Prayer pop out throughout his sacrifice, “He gave thanks and praise.” at them. Recently I have reflected on part of Eucharistic Prayer III. So great is his love for us, that even “on the night he was betrayed” he is teaching us to be grateful in all circumstances.

On the night he was betrayed, Life is full of joys. It is also full of trials and suffering. NevertheHe took bread and gave you thanks and praise… less, Jesus, in this very important and pivotal moment of salvation He took the cup. history, is telling us to give thanks and praise to God. We may Again he gave you thanks and praise. think that this is hard in the midst of our own struggles, yet they pale in comparison to Christ being betrayed by Judas. I recall There have been a few times when my eyes get moist at this another quote of Archbishop Sheen that illustrates this point: “No point. Jesus was betrayed. What was His response? He gave thanks believer ever went into the Gethsemane of bitter grief, but that he and praise to His Father. found his Master had gone ‘a little farther.’”

But first, let us look at the Gospel. In Luke 22:14-20, Jesus gives There are times when we betray the Lord with our sins. There us the Institution of the Lord’s Supper. Guess what? Judas received are times in life where we are betrayed by others or we ourselves the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, for immediately in betray our friends. We need these life experiences to call upon the Luke 22:21-23, Jesus asserts: “‘And yet behold, the hand of the one Lord’s mercy and forgiveness, and second, as Archbishop Sheen who is to betray me is with me on the table; for the Son of Man teaches, look at these experiindeed goes as it has been ences as “God is in some way determined; but woe to giving us a more inward sense that man by whom he is of things, as if He would not betrayed.’ And they began let us become lodged in the to debate among themtemporal, but shove us on to selves who among them what is beyond.” would do such a deed.”

For any sin against God Luke, unlike Matthew and is a betrayal against him who Mark, is putting a sharp let his Son shed his blood for focus on the extent of us, as the Eucharistic Prayer Judas’ betrayal. tells us, “so that sins may be I imagine the forgiven.” When daily we prophetic words of certain betray Jesus with our sins, psalms ran in the thoughts he is still in heaven, standof Jesus about Judas as He ing before his father with shared the table with him outstretched wounded hands, that night. Perhaps the This carving, appropriately titled The Last Supper, by Brother Emmanuel Perez, still giving thanks and praise prophetic words of Psalm is currently on display in St. Benedict’s Abbey Art Gallery. for being the Instrument of 55:14-15: “If this had been our Salvation. This thought done by an enemy, I could bear his taunts. If a rival had risen against should shove us “on to what is beyond.” It should move us out of me, I could hide from him. But it was you, my own companion, our temporal, busy lives to reflect that for the sake of our eternal my intimate friend! How close was the friendship between us. We life Jesus died for us. As for me, I will give thanks and praise to walked together in harmony in the house of God.” God. My brothers and sisters, I pray you will do the same.

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saint benedict’s abbey art gallery presents

- Coming Soon SPRING 2010

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TH IRT Y-TH R E E O R I G INA L WO RKS

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the Abbot

Featuring works in various media by monks and friends of Saint Benedict’s Abbey. +++

Gallery open 11 a.m. Sunday, following Mass or by appointment: 913.367.7853

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blaine@benedictine.edu

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Father Terence Sullivan

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ather Terence, spelled with one “r,” as he reminded folks now and then, served at St. Benedict’s College and later in various parishes tended by the Abbey Community. He was twice at Hiawatha and retired to the Abbey from there in 2000.

Father Terence was never at a loss for an anecdote to share with confreres at ABC (The After Breakfast Club) or at the Tuesday Night Haustus, a gathering for conversation, refreshments and snacks. Incidents in his life took on a dramatic quality in the telling whether it be the time he got involved in a court trial as a result of witnessing an auto accident or telling of an incident on one of the many cruises he took while serving the ship as chaplain.

He freely told about his own foibles. Father Terence, who had an abiding interest in submarines, was one of the graduates of Lillis High School in Kansas City, Mo., who joined our community. The others are Fr. Bertrand LaNoue and Fr. Maurice Haefling.

Father Jude Burbach adds: Terence, his picture is on my bookcase and it prompts me to reflect on the Terence that I knew, the Sociology teacher, the Prior, the pastor, the hospital chaplain at Fort Scott where he served for a number of years.

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He was a friendly person. He loved the high seas and invited me to accompany him on a week-long cruise. It was educational to see how he had it all planned out; to fly to Houston, to catch a bus to Galveston where we boarded the liner. Terence was a community man, a few years younger than I. We had meals together a few times when we were assigned to neighboring parishes. He kept a tidy household and served a tasty meal whether it was for two or more.

I asked Prior James to preach at my Golden Jubilee celebration at Onaga.

Terence honored me with his presence on that occasion. His passing on a spring morning was rather sudden but he was ready to go.

(Above) Father Terence entertains the After Breakfast Club with an anecdote. Pictured left to right, Father Aaron Peters, Father Terence, Father Blaine Schultz and Brother John Kaighin.

(Below) A a gathering at Fort Leavenworth. Pictured left to right, Father Terence; Father John W. O’Connor; an unidentified representative of the military brass; Father Bernard Sause, Archbishop Edward J. Hunkeler of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas; Father John O’Neill; Father Thomas Cullhane (accompanied the archbishop); Chaplain Austin De Benedetto.

a Grateful Response liturgy & the life of the church

Growing up I entered the monastery at a young age, after the third year of college. This was not unusual for the time, but, given the lifelong process of maturation, I had much to learn about being an adult while living the monastic life. Much like young professionals, I would imagine, or like young married couples, the Father Daniel McCarthy monastic way informed my adult perspectives and patterns of daily living.

Reflecting back on my journey, like many people, I wonder how I ever got to where I am from where I began more than a quarter century ago. Even if I could have foreseen the joys of this stage of life when I first entered the monastery, I could not have imagined the myriad steps and missteps in route. Each moment had its decisions, which in turn shaped the next.

The celebration of the liturgy has nourished me in many and profound ways, so much so that I have recently come to ask how the good celebration of the liturgy nourishes our human maturation. Perhaps married couples look to the liturgy for some example of how to live their married life, and parents for raising their children. Perhaps professionals look to the liturgy to know how to conduct their business. Yet connecting these pointed moments of life’s decisions into a narrative of one’s own life-long maturation provides a valuable perspective on the way in which the liturgy nourishes us all along the way.

Father James Leachman and I have been reflecting on how the liturgy, its texts and rites, suggests the ways of human maturation.

We have invited others to join us in a process of shared reflection.

We recently held a Parish Appreciating the Liturgy workshop at St. Joseph’s Parish, Wathena, Kan., where I pastored from 1995-99.

The current pastor, Father Roderic Giller, welcomed and hosted our group in the rectory dining room. For our meeting I prepared handouts with the prayers for the upcoming feast of the Epiphany and included reflection questions for each of the four prayers.

The opening prayer concludes the gathering rite of mass and often includes a statement about our identity as the body of Christ and our hope in Christ. The opening prayer for Epiphany petitions that God lead us by the light of faith to our goal of glory in heaven.

Reflecting on this prayer, we asked how we perceived God to be leading us by the light of faith and how we have already caught a glimpse of the glory of heaven. Thus, the prayer helps us to reflect upon and to name God’s working in our lives.

When we present the gifts of bread, wine and an offering for people in their need, we acknowledge that these gifts already represent the gift of God and the work of human labor. As we process up to the altar with the gifts, we also present ourselves to God, and with ourselves our daily lives and service to others. In return we receive the gift of Christ’s body and blood. In the communion procession we present ourselves once again. St. Augustine says that when we receive communion it is not changed into us as mere food, but we are changed into Christ. Thus, the prayer over the gifts concerns the reciprocal exchange of self-gift. Reflecting on the prayer over the gifts for Epiphany, we asked how we have received

SPRING 2010 God’s gift of self and how we are giving ourselves to God in response. This reflection helped us to consider our lives in terms of the mutual exchange of personal self-gift.

The preface of the eucharistic prayer names the saving deeds of God for which we give thanks in this liturgy. The preface for Epiphany says that Christ’s glory has shone among us and that God has renewed humanity in Christ’s immortal image.

We reflected upon how we have seen God’s glory among us and how we perceive Christ’s immortal image in ourselves and in one another.

The prayer after communion concludes the communion procession. This prayer typically petitions that we deepen our appreciation for the gift we have received and become and that we live according to this mystery in our daily lives. In light of the prayer after communion for Epiphany, we reflected upon how we have welcomed Christ with love and how we perceive God to be leading us with divine light.

Reflecting on the Sunday prayers helped us to see how God is working in our lives. The liturgy calls us to respond to the Scriptures by joining in the mutual exchange of self-gifts in the Eucharist and then to see this exchange as the pattern for our daily lives.

If you or someone you know would like to conduct similar reflection sessions on the prayers of each Sunday of Advent and Christmas next year, you may inquire at the development office of St. Benedict’s Abbey.

Opening prayer Father, you revealed your Son to the nations by the guidance of a star.Lead us to your glory in heaven by the light of faith.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer over the gifts Lord, accept the offerings of your Church, not gold, frankincense and myrrh, but the sacrifice and food they symbolize: Jesus Christ, who is Lord for ever and ever. Amen Preface of Epiphany Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks.

Today you revealed in Christ your eternal plan of salvation and showed him as the light of all peoples.

Now that his glory has shone among us you have renewed humanity in his immortal image.

Now, with angels and archangels, and with the whole company of heaven, we sing the unending hymn of your praise: Holy, holy, holy…

Prayer after communion Father, guide us with your light. Help us to recognise Christ in this eucharist and welcome him with love, for he is Lord for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Sacramentary, Catholic Book 1984.

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forward...always forward Just as the Monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey have long co-sponsored Benedictine College and Maur Hill-Mount Academy, we also rely on sponsorship. You, our friends and benefactors, are our sponsors. Although the monks of our community do good works that bring in income, we rely greatly on the kind sponsorship of our many friends and benefactors--your gifts to our annual fund--to ensure that monastic life will continue to survive and thrive in Northeast Kansas. Our apostolates of education, pastoral ministry, hospitality, and other good works, and the important work of cultivating vocations, caring for our sick and elderly, and maintaining and repairing our facilities that support those apostolates depend on this generous support. Without you, our daily life of monastic prayer – lifting the world to God in prayer – would not be possible.

-Abbey Capital Campaign

We are humbled and gratified by the extended sacrifice many of our friends have made to push forward our capital campaign, the “Journey Forward.” This while continuing to support our annual fund. Despite difficult financial times we have turned to a few stalward benefactors to keep this effort moving forward. However, we have reached the most challenging phase of the campaign. The following pie chart shows the current progress of the capital campaign. We are within the final $1 million, but we will need the help of each of our friends to complete this important work of repairing our monastery’s roof and its replacing 885 windows. As you can see we have successfully raised the money to make the Abbey Church accessible to all who visit our church and guest house, a $2.2 million project. Thank you and know that all *Money to be raised of our friends and $929,954 benefactors are in the daily prayers of the monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey.

*Gifts Received for Roof & Windows $335,982

Funds Raised For Accessability Project $2,197,315

*Outstanding Pledges for Roof & Windows $736,749

*figures as of June 30 2009

“Forward, always forward, everywhere forward! We must not be held back by debts, bad years or by difficulties of the times.

Man’s adversity is God’s opportunity.”—Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. 14

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Aaron, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Donald Aaron, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Adair Mr. Stanley A. Adamski Mr. & Mrs. Adebayo Adedokun Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Adrian Mr. & Mrs. James Ahern Mr. & Mrs. John V. Ahern Mr. & Mrs. Ed Albers Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Albers Mr. Donald R. Albers Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Albers Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Albers Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Albers Mr. Charles R. Alberts Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Albright Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Jim F. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Everett Allen Dr. & Mrs. Paul W. Allen Rev. David Altman Mr. & Mrs. John N. Altman Mr. & Mrs. Dan L. Altman Mrs. Roberta J. Amenell Mr. Edwin J. Amrein Lt. Col. Marian Amrein Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Anders Ms. Anna Marie Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Paul B. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Andra Mr. & Mrs. William P. Andre Mrs. Betty A. Andrews Dr. Vincent A. Aniello Mr. & Mrs. James L. Antes

Mr. & Mrs. William Anthes Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Anthony Msgr. Gary P. Applegate Ms. Annette M. Aragon Ms. Elsie Jane Arbach Mr. Gerald A. Archer Mr. & Mrs. Peter Arensberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert Aringdale Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Arkus Mr. Martin F. Armstrong, Jr. Ms. Ann E. Armstrong Mr. Harold Arnold Mr. Stanley A. Arnold Mr. David W. Artzer Mrs. Helen C. Ashbaugh The Honorable & Mrs. Martin J. Asher Mr. & Mrs. James Asher Mr. & Mrs. John P. Asher Miss Mary M. Asher Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Avila Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Ayer Mr. & Mrs. Ted D. Ayres Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Babecka Mr. & Mrs. Frank Baker Rev. Nicholas J. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Richard Baker Mr. & Mrs. Richard Baker, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William L. Baker Mrs. Rita A. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Richard Baldwin Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Baldwin Ms. Anna E. Balint Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Balsiger Mr. & Mrs. Bryce Banion Rev. Christopher L. Barak Mr. & Mrs. John A. Barcas Ms. Deborah Barclay Mr. & Mrs. John Baricevic Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barker, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David R. Barry Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bartkoski Mr. Robert L. Bartkoski Dr. & Mrs. Mike Bartoletti Mr. Larry L. Base Mr. & Mrs. John Bates Mr. & Mrs. Charles Baughman Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Bauman Dr. & Mrs. George Baumgartner Mr. & Mrs. Vern Baumhover Rev. Henry R. Baxa Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bayer Dr. Patricia Bealmear Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Beattie, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John R. Beck

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In 2009 Kansas Monks received an award for General Excellence for a Religious Order magazine from the Catholic Press Association.

Mr. & Mrs. Walter J. Becker Mr. Regis J. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Becker Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Becker Mr. Richard A. Beckwith Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Beggs Mr. John A. Behrmann Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Belden Mrs. Diane L. Belken Mr. & Mrs. Rexford A. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Benoit Ms. Laura Benson Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Bequette Mr. & Mrs. George Berberick Mr. Brandon Berg Col. & Mrs. Jerry Bergeman Mr. John A. Berger Ms. Evelyn L. Bernica Mr. & Mrs. Norbert J. Berning Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bernskoetter Mr. Timothy R. Bersch Fr. George Bertels Mr. & Mrs. David Betzen Mr. & Mrs. Larry Beying Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Bianco Dr. & Mrs. Frank G. Bichlmeier Mr. Donald E. Biggs Mr. & Mrs. Bryan E. Biggs Mr. & Mrs. Danny E. Billups Mr. & Mrs. William M. Bing Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bird Mr. & Mrs. Greg Birket Mr. & Mrs. Roger D. Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Bittner Mr. & Mrs. Donald Blackman Mrs. Carmelita M. Blackman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Blanco Mr. & Mrs. Leroy A. Blasi Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Blevins Mr. & Mrs. John W. Block, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George B. Blodig Mr. & Mrs. Paul Blodig Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Bock Mr. & Mrs. Michael Boddicker Mr. & Mrs. Paul Boeding Rev. Marvin J. Boes Ms. Maxine M. Boesch Mrs. Doris J. Boland Mr. & Mrs. John J. Bolders Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Bolin

SPRING 2010 Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Bona Mr. & Mrs. Santos D. Bonilla Mr. & Mrs. Gregory L. Bono Mr. & Mrs. Michael Boos Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Boos Mr. Edward J. Bott, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lendell Boudreau Lt. Col. & Mrs. Archille O. Bourque, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John T. Bowen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bower Mr. & Mrs. David Bowers Mr. & Mrs. William Bowler III Mr. William Bowler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin Boyer Mr. & Mrs. George M. Brady Mr. & Mrs. Austin Braithwait Mr. & Mrs. Mario J. Brancato Mr. Larry L. Brandon Mr. & Mrs. James B. Brandt Ms. Mary Anne Brant Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin R. Brath Mr. & Mrs. Richard Braunsdorf Mr. & Mrs. Bob Breen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Breight, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breitenstein Miss Carrie N. Bremmer Mr. Terry J. Brennan Ms. Lucille F. Brennan Ms. Elizabeth Brentano Mr. & Mrs. James Brentano Dr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Brickner Mr. & Mrs. Richard Brickner Mr. & Mrs. Jim Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Bright Ms. Marian C. Brodigan Mr. & Mrs. Karl Brondell Dr. William O. Brooke, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James P. Brophy Mrs. Betty C. Broski Dr. & Dr. Alfred D. Brothers Dr. & Mrs. Terrence J. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Jerome F. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Randal L. Brown Mrs. Monica Browne Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Brox Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Brox Mr. & Mrs. Anton R. Brox Maj. & Mrs. Michael D. Brox Mr. & Mrs. Ron Broxterman Mr. James B. Bruce Mr. & Mrs. James L. Brull Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Brull Mr. Stephen A. Brull Rev. Matthew Brumleve Dr. & Mrs. Gerard Brungardt Rev. John Brungardt Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Brungardt Mr. & Mrs. Tim L. Brungardt Mrs. Helen E. Bryant Miss Amber E. Buchheit Mr. & Mrs. John A. Buckley Mr. Rick Buckley Mr. Scott W. Buckman Mr. & Mrs. Larry J. Buessing Mr. & Mrs. Richard Buessing Mr. & Mrs. Charles Buhler 15

KANSAS MONKS Ms. Elizabeth E. Bunck Mr. & Mrs. Max J. Burbach Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Burenheide Rev. Robert A. Burger Ms. Monica E. Burgess Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Burke Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Burke Mr. Joseph V. Burns Mr. Edmund Burns Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Burns Ms. Holly L. Buser Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Bussell Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Bussen Mr. & Mrs. John C. Byers Mr. & Mrs. Anthony E. Byk Mr. Patrick M. Byrne Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Cacioppo Mr. & Mrs. James C. Calcara Mr. & Mrs. William Callaway Ms. Barbara A. Campbell Mrs. Valeria A. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Canning Dr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Cappo Mr. James M. Carew Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Carey Mrs. Alice Carey Ms. Elizabeth A. Carey Dr. Thomas E. Carey Dr. & Dr. Stephen M. Carley Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. Carr Ms. Gere Carrigan Ms. Ann Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Carril Mr. & Mrs. John E. Carroll, Jr. Ms. Janice L. Carson Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carter Mr. & Mrs. David T. Case Mr. & Mrs. James N. Caskey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Caspari Mr. & Mrs. William Casserly, Jr.

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Father Jude congratulates newly ordained Father Vinícius de Queiroz Rezende in Mineiros, Brazil on December 12, 2008.

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Mr. & Mrs. William H. Castle Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Catanzaro Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Catrambone Mr. & Mrs. Leo F. Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. Michael Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. Sealy H. Cavin Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Cawley Mr. Warren D. Cawley Mr. Frank M. Ceresia Dr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Cernich Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Cerveny Dr. Alice F. Chang Mr. Pius K. Chao Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Charbonneau Ms. Maria E. Chastain-Brand Mr. & Mrs. Robert Chenoweth Mr. & Mrs. Phil Chew Mr & Mrs Bob Chew Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Chisolm Miss Mary Chmidling Mr. & Mrs. Paul Chmidling Mrs. Anna M. Christman Dr. Donald O. Christy Mr. David Chua Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Cindrich Mr. & Mrs. Dom Cingoranelli Ms. Alison N. Clark Dr. & Mrs. John F. Clarkin Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cleary Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Clement Mr. & Mrs. John R. Clinton Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Clune Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Clune Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Cocherl Mr. & Mrs. Mike Cochran Mr. & Mrs. Colin Cohen Col. & Mrs. Edward Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Neal Colby, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Cole Mr. Stephen Cole Dr. & Mrs. Michael Collison Mr. & Mrs. Tony W. Colnar Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Colwell Mr. Mortin B. Comer Br. Patrick Concidine Ms. Janna M. Connolly Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Cook Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Cook Fr. Thomas E. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Steve B. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Coon Mr. Vincent G. Corbett Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Corken Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Cornella Rev. Ronald J. Cornish Mr. & Mrs. Pete Corpstein Mr. James J. Cosgrove Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Costigan Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Costigan Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Cotter Ms. Rita Coupe Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Coyle Mr. & Mrs. John Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Charles Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Herbert E. Cressler Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Creten

Last January, the Benedictine College men’s basketball team dedicated their locker room to long-time chaplain Father Hugh Keefer.

Rev. Kenneth Criqui Mr. & Mrs. Jerome J. Cronan Dr. John Cronin Mr. & Mrs. John R. Cross Mr. James A. Crossley Col. & Mrs. Paul V. Crotty Mr. & Mrs. Brian F. Crowe Deacon & Mrs. Benedict Cruise Mr. & Mrs. Russell Cummings Mr. Martin O. Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Alan F. Cummings Mrs. Mary Cummings Mrs. Jean Cummings Dr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Curry Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Curry Mr. & Mrs. James M. Curtis Mr. Joseph D. Cusack, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Salvatore Cusumano Ms. Penny S. Cutler Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cyr Mrs. Mary Faith Dalinghaus Mr. & Mrs. John M. Daly Mrs. Mary T. Darrenkamp Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Davenport Mr. & Mrs. William C. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Day Mrs. Virginia A. Day Mrs. Therese De Coursey Foley Mr. Marion W. Deas Mr. & Mrs. John D. DeBacker Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Debauge Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. DeCarlo Mr. & Mrs. Virgil C. Dechant Mr. & Mrs. Thomas DeCoursey Mr. & Mrs. Josh Deery Mr. & Mrs. Bert DeFelice Mr. & Mrs. Robert DeFelice Mr. & Mrs. Leo H. DeGreef Mrs. Rita Dehner Mr. & Mrs. James B. Dehner Mrs. Patricia Deitchman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Deitchman

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Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Deitchman Mr. Richard P. Deitchman Mr. & Mrs. Damian F. Dekat Rev. Carl M. Dekat Mr. & Mrs. George R. Delaney Mr. & Mrs. Dick Delaney Dr. & Mrs. John M. Delphia Mr. Richard Delphia Mr. Francis X. Demar Mr. John N. Demmer Mr. Leo A. Demmer Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Dempsey Ms. Rita C. Deniger Mr. & Mrs. David M. Dennis Mr. & Mrs. John A. Denomy Mr. Jack D. Denzer Mr. & Mrs. Damian Depatie Mr. & Mrs. Irvin A. Derezinski Ms. Audrey A. Deters Mr. Ben Deters, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dorus J. Deters Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dickason Sr. Bridget E. Dickason Mr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Didde Mrs. Mary Lou Diebolt Mr. & Mrs. Don P. Diederich Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Diederich Mrs. Margaret B. Diedrich Mr. D. Thomas T. Diedrich Mrs. Irene C. Dierks Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Dillon Mr. Edward H. Dillon Dr. & Mrs. David F. Dinges Mr. & Mrs. David A. Dinneen Mr. & Mrs. Greg M. Dixon Dr. Arthur Dobbelaere Mr. & Mrs. Sean M. Doherty Mr. & Mrs. John F. Dolan Mr. & Mrs. Joe Domann Mr. David Domann Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Donahue Dr. & Mrs. Frank A. Donovan

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Mrs. Berniece Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Dooley Mrs. Sarah Dooley Mr. Richard C. Dooley Ms. Cynthia L. Dooley Mrs. Mildred Dooley Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Dr. & Mrs. John L. Dornhoffer Mr. & Mrs. David J. Dover Mr. & Mrs. Charles Doyle Mr. Patrick E. Doyle Ms. Elizabeth A. Doyle Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Dramann Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Drape Ms. Mary C. Drees Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Drees Ms. Anita L. Dreiling Mr. John Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. Richard Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. Bill Droessler Mr. James J. Drotar Mr. & Mrs. John G. DuBois Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Dugan Mr. & Mrs. Charles DuLac Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dummermuth Mr. Jack W. Dundon Mr. & Mrs. Terrence P. Dunn Mrs. Carol W. Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dunne Ms. Michelle L. Dyer Mr. & Mrs. Patrick H. Dyer Mr. & Mrs. Elliott L. Eagle Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ebel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Ebner Mr. & Mrs. William Eck Ms. Eileen Edgren Dr. & Mrs. Harry C. Eggleston Mr. & Mrs. David D. Eklund Mr. & Mrs. Chris Elias Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Elliott Mr. & Mrs. Roland Elpers Mr. & Mrs. Craig E. Elson Mr. & Mrs. James Emerson Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Engelken Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Engler Mr. & Mrs. John M. English Mr. Damian W. Enneking Mr. & Mrs. James A. Enneking Dr. & Mrs. John Eplee Mr. J. R. Erickson Col. & Mrs. Ronald C. Estep Miss Opal Every Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Ewbank Mr. & Mrs. John D. Fagan Mr. & Mrs. William Fagan, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George J. Fagg Mrs. Billie Joan Falk Mr. & Mrs. Richard Falk Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Fangman Mr. & Mrs. Lester Fangman Mr. Elmer G. Fangman Mr. Phillip F. Farris Mr. & Mrs. John W. Fassler Ms. Suzanne Faulkner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fawcett Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fayard

Mr. & Mrs. William Federhofer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Feierabend Mr. & Mrs. Michael Feldewert Mr. & Mrs. Michael Feldkamp Mr. & Mrs. Jerold V. Fennell Mr. & Mrs. James P. Fern, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fernandez Mr. & Mrs. Warren I. Finch Mr. Richard L. Finn Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Finnegan Ms. Frances Finnegan Dr. & Mrs. Gunther Fischer Mr. & Mrs. David P. Fitch Mr. & Mrs. David A. Fitzekam Mrs. Mildred M. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. James E. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. James R. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Fitzgerald

Mrs. Judy Fridell Mr. John R. Fridell Mrs. Mary L. Froeschl Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Fry II Mr. C.E. Fryman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Fuhrman Mr. & Mrs. Aloysius M. Funk Mr. Howard R. Funk Mr. John A. Gages Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Gaigals Capt. & Mrs. Terrance Gainer Mr. Gerald L. Gajda Mr. & Mrs. James B. Gales Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Gallagher Mr. & Mrs. Roy Gallup, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Carl Gangel Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Gangel Ms. Eva E. Garcia

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Papal Nuncio Pietro Sambi helped kick off the 2009 Benedictine College school year by celebrating all-school mass in the Abbey Church.

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fitzmaurice Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fitzpatrick Mr. James P. Flanagan Dr. & Mrs. James L. Fleming Mr. & Mrs. William Fleming Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Fleury Mr. & Mrs. John D. Flynn Mr. & Mrs. Sean Flynn Mr. Gerald E. Ford Lt. Col. Eugene A. Forge Dr. & Mrs. Henry L. Forge Mr. & Mrs. Richard Forge Col. Robert L. Forrester Mr. & Mrs. James L. Forst Mr. & Mrs. Duane L. Fortin Ms. Dorothy E. Fouquet Ms. Bernadine L. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Fox Mr. & Mrs. John P. Frank Mr. William V. Frasor Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Frazier Mr. Randall D. Freehling Mr. & Mrs. John H. Freeland Mr. Bernard H. Frerichs

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Garofalo Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gartenmayer Mr. & Mrs. John E. Gaschen Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Gaspers Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gast Mr. & Mrs. William M. Gates Miss Sandra K. Gaul Mr. & Mrs. Mike Geffert Mr. & Mrs. Thaddeus Geiger Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Geise Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Geisinger Mr. & Mrs. John P. Geismann Mr. Robert L. Geist Dr. Joseph E. Geist Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gellings Ms. M. Kathryn Gellings Mr. & Mrs. Leo T. Gensweider Dr. & Mrs. James A. Gerst Dr. & Mrs. William C. Gerst Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Gerst Mr. & Mrs. William Gervais

SPRING 2010 Mr. Anthony Gettler Mr. & Mrs. Nick R. Gieber Mr. & Mrs. James R. Giessel Mr. & Mrs. John G. Gillcrist Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Giller Mr. Paul H. Giller Col. & Mrs. Edward Gillette Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Gilligan Msgr. John P. Gilsenan Mr. John J. Gioia II Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gishpert Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gladbach Mr. & Mrs. James Glaser Mr. & Mrs. Louis Glavan, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dan J. Glennon Mrs. Stella E. Glennon Mr. & Mrs. Mike Glotzbach Mr. & Mrs. James Goetzinger Mr. Gummie Gonzales Mr. & Mrs. Marty Gonzales Mrs. Ilene M. Good Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gorczyca Mr. & Mrs. Roger Gormley Mr. & Mrs. Brian J. Gowasack Mr. & Mrs. Glen Grable Mrs. Lillian M. Graham Mr. & Mrs. John T. Graham Mr. & Mrs. David N. Grant Mrs. Eileen L. Graves Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Gray Ms. Loretta Grbac Mr. & Mrs. Denis L. Greene Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Greer Miss Mary A. Greer Mr. & Mrs. Conrad J. Gregoire Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred F. Gress Mr. & Mrs. Charles Gress Mr. Norbert Gress Dr. & Mrs. Terence E. Grewe Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Eugene E. Griffith Dr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Grindel Mr. Joseph H. Gronniger Mr. & Mrs. Gary Grosdidier Mr. & Mrs. William Gross, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Grote Dr. Stephen B. Gruba Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Gruenbacher Mr. Eugene J. Gruenbacher Mr. & Mrs. Paul V. Gudenkauf Mr. & Mrs. Norman J. Guettermann Mr. & Mrs. Norman C. Guettermann Mrs. Juanita A. Guilmette Mr. Joseph S. Guinotte Dr. & Mrs. Anthony P. Gythiel Mrs. Claire Haag Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Haake Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Haase Ms. Patricia R. Haefling Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Haeger Mr. & Mrs. Paul T. Haerle Mr. & Mrs. William Hafeman Mr. W. Mark Hafeman Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Hagen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Haire

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Father Bruce on his way out of the maximum security section of Lansing Correctional Facility. Father Bruce has been active in prison ministry since 1985.

Mr. Charles F. Hales Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn W. Hall Mr. & Mrs. James F. Halling Rev. Robert F. Hamel Mr. & Mrs. Steve Handke Ms. Marianne Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Hardick Mr. & Mrs. Patrick R. Harper Mr. & Mrs. Raymond S. Harrington Mr. & Mrs. C. James Harris Mr. Michael J. Harris Mr. Louis L. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Gerald P. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Kent E. Harrison Mrs. Joanne Hart Mr. & Mrs. John F. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Hart Mr. Robert E. Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hartman Mr. Kenneth O. Hartnett Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Harton Mr. & Mrs. John R. Hartwell Mr. Joseph M. Hattrup Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Hauber Mrs. Mildred M. Haug Mr. & Mrs. John V. Haug Ms. Carolyn F. Hauser Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Haverkamp Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Haverkamp Dr. David L. Hayden Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Hayes Hon. & Mrs. Daniel L. Hebert Mrs. Jere S. Heck Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Hegarty Dr. & Mrs. Hubert Heichelheim Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Heideman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Heideman Mr. Hubert L. Heideman Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Heideman Dr. Rebecca M. Heidlage Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Heim Mr. & Mrs. Don T. Heiman 18

Mr. Justin R. Hein Mr. & Mrs. Dennis J. Heine Mr. & Mrs. David L. Heinen Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Heinen Ms. Jeanette A. Heinen Rev. Gregory A. Heinlein Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Heintzelman Mr. Terrence S. Heintzelman Mr. & Mrs. James H. Heinzel Mr. Robert G. Helget Dr. Francis H. Heller Ms. Nicole M. Hendershot Mr. & Mrs. John A. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. James H. Hendricks Mr. & Mrs. William J. Hendricks Mr. & Mrs. John H. Henke Mr. & Mrs. Harry Hennigh, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Henningsgaard Ms. Natalie J. Henningsgaard Mr. & Mrs. Dennis R. Henry Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Henry Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Henry Mr. & Mrs. Rick Henry Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Henry Mrs. Annabelle Heppler Mr. John F. Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Dominic A. Herman Br. Robert G. Herman Mr. & Mrs. Norbert E. Hermes Dr. Jerome H. Hermes Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Hermesch Mr. Alan L. Hermesch Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hermesch Mr. James P. Hertel Mr. Keith G. Hertling Miss Susan Hervey Mr. & Mrs. John B. Heshion Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Hess Rev. Thomas N. Hesse Mr. & Mrs. John Hewitt Mr. & Mrs. Doug D. Hickerson

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Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hiegert Dr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Higginbotham Mrs. Madalyn C. Higgins Mrs. Josephine Hildman Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Hilger Mrs. Inez H. Hilger Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hill Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hillman Col. & Mrs. Daniel L. Himmel Mr. Richard H. Hinkson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Hinz Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hlavacek Mr. & Mrs. Albert A. Hoff, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Blaine K. Holder Mr. Mark R. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Fred B. Holley III Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Holmes Mr. & Mrs. Phillip J. Holtgraves Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Homan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Hoopes Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Hopfinger Mrs. Anne Horan Ms. Mary Horan Mr. George Hornick Rev. Francis M. Horvat Ms. Monica T. Horvat Mr. & Mrs. John M. House IV Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hrenchir Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Huber Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Huebner III Dr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Huerter Dr. & Mrs. Quentin C. Huerter Mr. Burton P. Huerter Ms. Rita F. Hulsing Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Humburg Mrs. Margaret M. Hund Miss Cathryn A. Hund Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Hund Mr. & Mrs. Phil Hundley Mr. Michael E. Hundley Mr. & Mrs. Shane M. Hundley Mr. & Mrs. John A. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. John P. Hurley Mr. & Mrs. Steven Husband Mr. & Mrs. Herbert E. Huseth Dr. & Mrs. Martin J. Huss Mr. James R. Hutchinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hutchison Dr. & Mrs. Richard C. Ibarra Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Ingalls Mrs. Ina Ingram Mrs. Mary M. Intfen Mr. & Mrs. Bill Irons Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. James A. Jackson Mrs. Rita M. Jacobs Dr. & Mrs. C.H. Jacobs Mrs. Margie Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Jacobs Ms. Ada A. Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. Ken Jacquinot Dr. & Mrs. Thomas O. James Ms. Kimberly A. Jansen

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Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Janssen Mr. William A. Januszewski Mr. & Mrs. Fred F. Jehle Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Jenicke Mr. & Mrs. Francis E. Jennings Miss Desirae Jensen Dr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Jilka Mrs. Mildred M. Jilka Mr. & Mrs. Mark Jirak Mr. & Mrs. Jason L. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John C. Johnson Mrs. Lois M. Joiner Mr. & Mrs. Clyde W. Jones Mr. & Mrs. William C. Jones Mr. William H. Jones Ms. Margaret C. Jones Ms. Charlene Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Nikola Jurasic Mr. & Mrs. John J. Jurcyk, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Roger Jurgensmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Warren Kaemmerer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kaemmerer Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Kaminsky Ms. Betty J. Kane Dr. & Mrs. James Kane Mr. & Mrs. S. William Kapranos Mr. & Mrs. William H. Kastens Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Kauffman Mr. & Mrs. George R. Kautz Mr. & Mrs. Gary Kearney, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Peter J. Kearney Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Keefer Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Keeley Mr. & Mrs. Theodore P. Keeley Rev. Kenneth Kelly Mr. Joseph J. Kelly Mr. Ronald V. Kelly Mr. Theodore Kelly Drs. Brian & Maria Kelly Mr. Larry F. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Matthew C. Kemnitz Mrs. Louise A. Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Kermashek Mrs. Dolores Kern Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Kerr Mrs. Mildred J. Ketter Mr. & Mrs. Kim J. Keutzer Mr. James A. Kew Mrs. Genevieve C. Kiefer Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Kiefer Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Kil Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Kilmer Mr. & Mrs. Greg King Maj. & Mrs. James M. King Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Kipp Dr. & Mrs. Bernard J. Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Kirkland Ms. Ellen Kirven Rev. George W. Klasinski Mr. Peter L. Klebba Mr. Thomas R. Klein Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Klenke Mr. & Mrs. James R. Klenke Mr. & Mrs. Phillip M. Klevorn Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kline Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Kloppenberg

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Ms. Mary A. Kluth Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Knapp Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Knapp Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Knipper Ms. Jeanne A. Kobler Dr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Kobos Mr. & Mrs. Aloysius D. Koch Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Kocour Mr. & Mrs. Mark Kocour Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Kocour Mr. & Mrs. Cecil A. Koechner Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Koechner Mr. & Mrs. Tom Koehler LTC. & Mrs. Walter L. Koehler Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Koenen Mr. Lyle J. Koenig Mr. Daniel C. Kohake Mr. & Mrs. John Kohake Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Kohake Dr. & Mrs. Cecil B. Kohake Mrs. Dorothy Feichtinger Mr. & Mrs. Al Kolarik Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Kolich Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Komarewich Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Koontz Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Kopp Ms. Gladys E. Koska Mr. Lee Koury Mr. & Mrs. Theodore G. Kozan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Kraft Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Krall Mr. & Mrs. Francis L. Kram Mrs. Mary I. Kramer Rev. Stephen Kranz Mr. Stephen T. Kraus Mr. & Mrs. Duane Kreiensieck Mr. Bruce K. Kremer Rev. Francis Krische Msgr. Vincent E. Krische Mr. Eugene G. Kristof Mr. Robert H. Krogmeier Mr. & Mrs. Gregory B. Kuhn Ms. Dorothy La Rocque Mrs. Martha E. La Van MSgt & Mrs. James R. LaBadie Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Laird, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Lammers Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Lanciotti Mr. & Mrs. Michael Landon Mr. & Mrs. Roger G. Landwehr Mr. & Mrs. David A. Landwehr Mrs. Betty A. Lane Mrs. Sherry Lange Mr. & Mrs. Kermit Lange Ms. Mary A. Larkin Mr. & Mrs. Gerald D. Lasater Mr. Charles J. Lasnier Mr. & Mrs. John R. Latenser Mr. William Latz Mrs. Sally Lauer Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Laurenzo Mrs. Courtney Laurie Mr. & Mrs. Mel Lavery Mr. & Mrs. Adrian P. Lavoie Mr. & Mrs. Duwayne LeBlanc Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Lednicky

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Mr. & Mrs. Mark Ledom Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Lees, Jr. Ms. Crescentia Lehmkuhl Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Leibham Mr. & Mrs. Eugene D. Leise Mr. Kenneth A. Leitner Mr. Dennis J. Leman Ms. Mary R. Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Letourneau Mr. F. William Lewis Mr. & Mrs. James S. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Ley, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Carl G. Lickteig Ms. Phyllis A. Lieb Mr. & Mrs. David Liebenthal Mr. & Mrs. Richard Liebsch, Jr. Ms. Gladys E. Linck Mr. & Mrs. Gary S. Linck Mr. & Mrs. Carl V. Lind Ms. Lyllis Ling Mr. & Mrs. George Lingenfelser Rev. Leroy Linnebur Mr. & Mrs. Gary P. Lipe Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Lippold Mrs. Josephine F. Lister Mr. & Mrs. Dick Loch Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Loehr Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Long Mr. John J. Lopez Cmdr. & Mrs. Francis A. Lorenz Mr. & Mrs. Ralph P. Lowder Mr. Philip H. Luebbert Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Lueger Mrs. Leona M. Lueger Mr. Frank R. Luke Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Lutz Mr. Dick Lutz Mr. & Mrs. James S. Lyke Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lykins Mr. & Mrs. James S. Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Gary Lyons Mr. & Mrs. Ed J. Macan Mr. & Mrs. Dan A. Madden Mr. & Mrs. Brook D. Maese Mr. & Mrs. James R. Maher Mr. & Mrs. Greg Maher Ms. Roseann Mahieu Mrs. Joann A. Malita Mr. & Mrs. James H. Malkus, Jr. Ms. Rose Mary Malm Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Manly Mr. John J. Manning Miss Mary L. Mariani Mr. William R. Markey Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Martin Dr. & Mrs. Donald L. Marx Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Maude Mr & Mrs. Al J. Mauler Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Mazur Mr. & Mrs. William Mazzolini Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. McAdams Mr. James P. McAnerney Mr. & Mrs. Matt J. McAvoy Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. McAvoy Mr. & Mrs. John T. McBride Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. McBride

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Ms. Mary A. McBride Mr. Paul A. McCann Ms. Pamela K. McCann Rev. Donald P. McCarthy Mrs. Marian McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McCarthy Dr. Aine E. McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. John McCarthy, Jr. Ms. Jane G. McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Jay N. McCauley Mr. Donald W. McConachie Dr. & Mrs. James McCormick Mr. Gary E. McCoy

SPRING 2010 Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. McNally Mr. & Mrs. Edward McShane, Jr. Ms. Kathleen Meade Mr. Leo Meade Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Meara Col. & Mrs. Harry Meinhardt Mrs. Dottie Melchior Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Melichar Ms. Remedios M. Mendez Mr. & Mrs. John Menghini, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Mense Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mertes Rev. David J. Metz

Brother Jeremy Heppler was ordained to the Diaconate on May 25, 2009.

He is scheduled to enter into the priesthood on June 5, 2010.

CmSgt & Mrs. James McCoy Col. & Mrs. James D. McDade Mr. & Mrs. Kent D. McDermed Ms. Rosemary McElroy Mr. & Mrs. Patrick McFadden Mr. & Mrs. David G. McGarry Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. McGinness Mr. & Mrs. John P. McGovern Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. McGrath Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. McGrath Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McGuire III Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. McGuire Ms. Katherine E. McHugh Mr. & Mrs. Peter McInerney Mr. & Mrs. Michael McInerney Mr. Dolan M. McKelvy Ms. Kathleen McKelvy Mr. & Mrs. Terry A. McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Leonard McKinzie Mr. & Mrs. Charles McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. Bernard McManaman Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence C. McMurtray

Mr. Glen J. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Jay A. Meyer Mrs. Mary L. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Patrick D. Meyers Mr. Tom Milam Mr. & Mrs. George Miller Mrs. Margaret E. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Dean Miller Mr. Millard W. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Miller Mr. & Mrs. David D. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Miller Ms. Vickie S. Mills Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Milroy Mr. & Mrs. Dee A. Minnis Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Minnis Mr. Donald J. Minnis Mr. & Mrs. Alfred F. Miossi III Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Mitchell Mr. Fred G. Mitchell Mrs. Elizabeth Mix Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Moccia Mr. & Mrs. Tibor G. Mohacsi Ms. Martha A. Moll Col. & Mrs. William E. Moore 19

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KANSAS MONKS Mr. & Mrs. Jim Moore Mr. William A. Morales Mrs. Brenda A. Moran Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Ryan J. Morrell Mr. Sylvester C. Morris Mr. & Mrs. Marlyn S. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Robert Morrow Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Motil Mr. & Mrs. James R. Moynagh Mr. & Mrs. James Muckenthaler Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Muegge Mrs. Marguerite Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Muenks Mrs. & Mr. Marion G. Mufich Mr. & Mrs. Norbert Muhlbauer Mr. & Mrs. Arthur F. Muller Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Mullican Mr. & Mrs. James Mullins, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Mulryan Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Muraski Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Muraski Mr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Murphy Dr. & Mrs. John L. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Murphy Ms. Catherine Murphy Mr. Timothy J. Murray Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Murray Lt. Col. & Mrs. Charles Murrell Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Muzyka Mr. & Mrs. William E. Myers Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Myzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nadeau Mr. & Mrs. John B. Nagle Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Nasche Ms. Virginia M. Nash Mr. & Mrs. James W. Nass Mr. & Mrs. John G. Nass Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Navinsky Mr. & Mrs. Owen G. Neary Mr. Frank J. Nedrow Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Neenan Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Nerney Dr. Charles F. Neumann Mr. & Mrs. Richard Neumann Ms. Rose Mary Neuwirth Mr. & Mrs. Keith P. Nevins Mr. & Mrs. Charles Newman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Nickel Mr. & Mrs. William H. Nicks Mr. Benjamin A. Nicks, Jr. Mrs. Regina Niehues Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Nieto Mr. James T. Nixon Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Nolan Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Nold Mrs. Lucille Noll Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Noonan Mr. & Mrs. Ted P. Noravong Mr. & Mrs. Clarence C. Nordhus Mr. & Mrs. James R. Nordhus Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Normandin Mr. & Mrs. Verl D. Norwood Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Nowatzke Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Nuschy Mr. & Mrs. Terry O’Brien

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Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. James T. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. James E. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. James J. O’Bryan Mr. William W. O’Bryan Msgr. James O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. William O’Connor Ms. Paula O’Connor Rev. Kent O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. William O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. John J. O’Connor Mrs. Doris O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Odum Rev. John Oetgen Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. O’Gara Dr. & Mrs. Reuben Ogbudinkpa Ms. Theresa M. Ogorsolka Mr. Josef R. O’Hearn Mr. & Mrs. Jerome H. Oidtman The Honorable & Mrs. Maurice P. O’Keefe Mr. August Olberding

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Pappas Mr. Bernard J. Pappert Mr. & Mrs. Jack Paradise Mr. Stephen D. Park Mr. Steve Parke Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Parr Mr. & Mrs. Louis Parre Mr. & Dr. Kevin M. Passino Mr. & Mrs. James D. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Steven C. Paul Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Paulk Mr. & Mrs. James A. Paunovich Dr. & Mrs. Robert R. Pavlu Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Peak Mrs. Maxine M. Pearce Mrs. Mary E. Pearson Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Pecorari Mr. Patrick J. Peddecord Mr. & Mrs. William H. Peltzer Mr. & Mrs. Ted Peltzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Penka Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Penning Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Penny Mr. & Mrs. David D. Perkins, Jr.

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Dr. & Mrs. William C. Pivonka Dr. & Mrs. Charles Podrebarac Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Podry Mr. Daniel T. Politoske Mr. & Mrs. Jim D. Pollard Mr. Brandon Pomeroy Mr. & Mrs. Fredrick R. Pouche Mr. & Mrs. John A. Powers Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Powers Mr. & Mrs. Warren P. Powers Mr. & Mrs. Reno C. Pretti Dr. James B. Pretz Dr. & Mrs. Patrick K. Price Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Prisk Mr. & Mrs. Roger Proffitt Ms. Esther Proffitt Mr. & Mrs. Don Prohaska Mr. & Mrs. Larry Prohaska Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Proost Mr. & Mrs. Raymond A. Protti Mr. & Mrs. George L. Pruett Mr. & Mrs. Ralph I. Purcell Mrs. Rosette Putaturo Mr. William T. Putthoff Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Quinn Col. & Mrs. Richard L. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Phillip C. Quo Mr. & Mrs. Russell C. Rabjohns Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Racki Ms. Joanne A. Rader Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Radetic Mrs. Regina M. Rapp Rev. Msgr. James W. Rasby Mr. & Mrs. John W. Rasmussen Mr. & Mrs. Lewis E. Real Dr. & Mrs. Allen B. Reavis Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Reay Mr. David J. Rebein Ms. Ann E. Redmond Mrs. Margaret A. Reed Mrs. Mary Lou Regan Ms. Veronica S. Regan Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Regehr, Jr. Mr. Thomas E. Regnary Mr. & Mrs. Tom Reichenberger Mr. & Mrs. John J. Reichmeier Msgr. Edward W. Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Reilly Mrs. Mary Ann Reinert Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Relic Fr. Mel Rempe Mr. & Mrs. Rex Rempel Mr. Fred Renne Ms. Mary Ann RennerEschmann Mr. & Mrs. James L. Rezac Mr. Joseph W. Reznik Mrs. Ruth L. Rice Mr. & Mrs. Dean B. Rice Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Chris D. Ricketts Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Ridder Fr. Richard S. Ries Mrs. Rose Mary Riley Mr. John J. Riley

Brother Simon Baker made his simple profession as a Benedictine Monk in 2009. All newly professed monks are welcomed into the community by being embraced by all of the monks of the Abbey.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. O’Leary Mr. & Mrs. L. Thomas Oliver Dr. & Mrs. M. J. Olk Mr. & Mrs. Francis B. O’Malley Mr. Tim M. O’Mara Mr. H. Charles O’Reilly, Jr. Mrs. Yvonne S. Ornelas-Rios Mr. Edward T. O’Rourke, Jr. Mr. Leo J. Orth, Jr. Mr. M. Orzel Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Osborn Ms. Mary C. Ost Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Ostmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Otke Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Otten Mr. & Mrs. David W. Page Mr. & Mrs. Dominic N. Paolucci Mr. & Mrs. Anthony V. Paolucci

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Peters, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Herman M. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Peters II Mr. John R. Pexton Mr. & Mrs. James J. Pfaff Ms. Betsy Phelan Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy C. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Pick Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pickman Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Pickman Mr. John C. Pillar Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Pillar SgM. Leo J. Pimple Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Pirotte Mr. & Mrs. John J. Pirotte Mr. Eugene Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Pivonka

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Riley Mrs. Susan K. Rinella Mr. & Mrs. Hobart M. Riney Dr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Ring, Jr. Lt. Col. & Mrs. Charles Riordan Dr. & Mrs. Jean W. Rioux Maj. & Mrs. Eldon T. Rippee Dr. & Mrs. John E. Ritter, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Rizzo Ms. Sandra S. Robbins Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Roberson Mr. Harold I. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Robinson Dr. & Mrs. Richard M. Robl Mr. & Mrs. Mark F. Robson Mr. & Mrs. Carl D. Robst Mr. Lawrence A. Rockers Mr. & Mrs. Joe Roe Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Roeder Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Roeder Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Roettele Mr. Paul J. Roettele, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. John Roever Mr. Charles A. Rogers Mr. L. James Roh Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Romero Mr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Ronnebaum Mr. & Mrs. Albert Q. Roos Mr. & Mrs. David E. Roos Mr. & Mrs. Herman J. Rottering Mr. & Mrs. Emmett Rottinghaus Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Rottinghaus Mr. & Mrs. Rodney G. Roy Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Roy Mrs. Vula Roy-Gager Mr. Duane J. Rueb Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Ruff III Mr. & Mrs. Steve Rus Dr. John L. Ruskusky Mr. & Mrs. Peter Russo Mr. Donald C. Rutherford Mrs. Catherine A. Ryan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Ryan

Mr. John F. Ryan, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Ryan Mrs. Dorothy Ryan Mrs. Rosemary Ryan Mr. & Mrs. John Rziha Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Sabatini Mr. & Mrs. Ryan G. Sanders Mr. Sam C. Sangosti Lcdo & Mrs. Richard Santana Mr. Edward J. Santoro Mr. Stan Santos Mr. & Mrs. David L. Sapenoff Dr. & Mrs. Stefan G. Sarre Mr. James C. Scanlon Mr. Charles G. Scarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Bernard J. Schaefer Mr. & Mrs. James E. Scheid Mr. & Mrs. Harold J. Scheopner Mr. Jerome Scherer Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Schieber Dr. & Mrs. Sylvester J. Schieber Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Schik Mr. & Mrs. Henry Schlattmann Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Schleicher Mr. & Mrs. David J. Schmidt Capt. & Mrs. Arnold C. Schmidt Ms. Kathleen Schmidt Dr. & Mrs. Jerome P. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. William F. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Leon J. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. John J. Schmidt Ms. Elaine P. Schmidtberger Mr. & Mrs. John L. Schmiedeler Mr. Dennis E. Schmitz Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Schmitz Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Schmitz Mr. Roger W. Schmitz, Sr. Mr. Norbert G. Schmitz Mr. & Mrs. Bill Schneickert Mr. & Mrs. James E. Schneider Mrs. Nancy L. Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Schneider Mr. & Mrs. John R. Schneller

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Dr. Thomas C. Schnurr Ms. Kathleen Schoenecker Mrs. Frances M. Schoenfelder Dr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Schreffler Mr. & Mrs. Randy Schrick Mr. Anthony J. Schrick Mr. & Mrs. Ben Schropfer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Schuele Mr. & Mrs. Homer Schuler Dr. & Mrs. Emmett E. Schulte Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Schultz Col. & Mrs. James Schultz, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Schumaker Mrs. Jacqueline L. Schuster Rev. Donald M. Schwalm Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Scigliano Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Sedlacek Mr. & Mrs. Gary J. Seib Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Seitz Ms. Margaret M. Sell Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Senecal Mr. & Mrs. Wladimir Senutovitch Mr. Larry Servaes Rev. George A. Seuferling Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sexton Mr. Paul A. Seymour III Mr. & Dr. Donald H. Shankman Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Sharp Rev. James E. Shaughnessy Ms. Marcella M. Sheets Mr. & Mrs. William R. Shelledy Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Sherlock Mr. & Mrs. George W. Shomin Ms. Carol M. Shomin Mr. & Mrs. John P. Shonfelt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Shrimplin Mr. & Mrs. Larry Siebenmorgen Mr. George J. Silovsky, Sr. Ms. Catherine M. Simonich Mr. & Mrs. Albert R. Siskey Mr. & Mrs. George B. Sittenauer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Sittenauer

St. Benedict’s Abbey had the opportunity in June 2009 to host the annual Junior Monks Institute for all North American houses of Benedictine Monks. Brother Michael Antonacci of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Penn., Brother Ignatius Kelly of St. Martin’s Abbey in Lacey, Wash. and Father Nickolas Becker of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn. attend class in St. Benedict Hall.

SPRING 2010 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Sittenauer Mrs. Loretta E. Sittenauer Mr. Isidor G. Sittenauer, Jr. Rev. Eugene E. Sitzmann Mr. & Mrs. James R. Skain Mr. James C. Skridulis Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Slater The Honorable & Mrs. Jim C. Slattery Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Slobodnik Mr. Bert Smice Mr. Henricus V. Smit Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Francis P. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Howard L. Smith Mr. Carey L. Smith Mr. Barry Smith Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Snodgrass Ms. Mary B. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Snyder Ms. Katie R. Soer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Soetaert Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Solari Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Don F. Sole Mr. & Mrs. Phil J. Spell Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Spensieri Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Spillane Mr. & Mrs. Edwin G. Splichal Dr. & Mrs. Edward P. Sri Rev. Edwin L. Stander Rev. Francis E. Stanfield Ms. Mary A. Stark Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Starke Mr. Charles U. Stastka Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stec Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Steele Mr. David P. Steelman Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Steiner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steingreaber Dr. & Mrs. Donald Steingreaber Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Steingreaber Mr. & Mrs. John G. Steinhauser Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Stewart Mrs. Helen F. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stigall Mr. & Mrs. David J. Stolwyk Mrs. Colleen M. Stork Mr. William F. Strathman Mr. & Mrs. Lyle R. Strathman Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Strathman Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Strathman Ms. Ann Strecker Mrs. Sally F. Stricca Mr. & Mrs. John Strick, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Strickland Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Strohmeyer Mr. Donald J. Strothkamp Mr. & Mrs. Leo F. Stueve Mr. & Mrs. William T. Sublette Dr. Robert H. Sueper Mrs. Ruth Sullivan Mr. William A. Sullivan 21

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abbey notes Father Michael Santa is studying math factoring in his room with some assistance from Brother Simon Baker, a math and physics major. Father Michael wants to understand compound interest and needs to know factoring to gain that understanding.

Brother Damian Cayetano, a member of the Benedictine Priory of Christ the King in Schuyler, Neb., who made first vows in September of 2009, is living with us in the Abbey and enrolled in Benedictine College in January to begin his study of philosophy. He did a canonical novitiate at Conception Abbey in Missouri, and a second year at the Ottilien monastery of Munsterschwarzach in Germany and at Schuyler. Brother Damian came with his parents to the United States from the Philippines when he was one year old. The family lived in Virginia Beach, Va., and knew the Benedictines who staff a large parish there. Damian did a missionary trip to Honduras with a group organized by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and began his vocational search for a religious community committed to mission work. This led him to the Ottilien Benedictines who work worldwide. The community in Schuyler numbers eight monks; their work is to raise awareness and funds for the Ottilien mission work, to run a retreat center, assist immigrants and engage in other ministries.

Abbot Barnabas Senecal participated in the annual Abbots’ Workshop in Prince of Peace Abbey, Oceanside, CA, Feb. 5-9. Dr. Michael Downey was one of the speakers for this workshop. Author or editor of more than 20 books, as well as journal articles, essays, and book chapters that number in the dozens, his most recent publications are Altogether Gift: A Trinitarian Spirituality (2000) and The Heart of Hope (2005). A member of the editorial board of Cistercian Studies Quarterly, he works extensively with enclosed contemplative communities, and is active in retreat work. Recipient of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (2005), Dr. Downey is the Cardinal’s Theologian, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A second speaker was Derry Connolly, founder and president of John Paul the Great University in San Diego. He presented sessions on “The Work and Influence of Catholics in the Media and Commerce.”

Father Matthew Habiger participated in a pro-life conference and gave talks at St. Joseph Church, Kennewick, Wash., in the Diocese of Yakima, Feb. 4-7.

SPRING 2010 Fathers Bruce Swift and Brendan Rolling, Brother Simon Baker, Novices Brother Christopher Start, Ulrich Henningsgaard and Father Justin Dean participated in the Men of Valor conference in Olathe’s College Church of the Nazarene, Jan. 30. Father Bruce was a confessor for the Men of Valor and Father Brendan was a confessor for the Women of Virtue program. This is the fifth year for the Men of Valor gathering and the first year for the Women of Virtue conference, organized by Phillip and Cathy Cosby. Speakers included Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Dr. Mark Laaser and Dana Gresh. For the opening joint conference on Friday there were 1,200 participants. On Saturday, there were 650 men and 525 women in separate assemblies.

Father Louis Kirby and Abbot Barnabas Senecal participated in Vespers at Savior of the World, Feb. 2, joining religious of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas honoring Consecrated Life. The Church celebrates the World Day for Consecrated Life simultaneously with the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple.

The World Day for Consecrated Life was inaugurated in 1997.

Benedictine pastors and parish representatives of the Atchison Pastoral Region met to respond to an inquiry of the Archdiocesan administrators that the city of Atchison study the possibility of being a single parish, thus perhaps making another priest available for rural ministry. Their recommendations are part of the final regional plan submitted to Archbishop Naumann.

The St. Joseph News Press carried photos and a story on the Abbey Art Gallery’s current show, Thirty-Three Original Works, in its Jan. 30 Saturday Diem section. It is available on-line. Photos by CoCo Martin and story by Erin Wisdom make an excellent presentation to the public. Father Blaine Schultz, gallery curator, and Elizabeth and Terry Zeller gathered art works from the abbey, works by our monks and by friends of the abbey.

St. Benedict’s Abbey offered “Vespers and Dinner with the Monks” at the 17th Annual Support Our Seminarians evening in Kansas City, MO, Jan. 29. Two meals for six guests were purchased by two separate parties, Pat and Louise Meyers and Bob Miller. We welcome the opportunity to support the SOS dinner and to have guests join us for prayer and a meal. + + + Visit Kansasmonks.org for homilies, reflections, photos and much more. Be sure to check back regularly for updates. photo by Brother Jeremy Heppler

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The younger monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey enjoyed the December snowstorm that descended on Atchison and much of the Midwest. Among the results 24of their play was this huge snow sculpture of the head of a Greek Athlete. Other works by the monks were “Snowhenge,” and a battle between a snow giant and Lilliputian snow warriors. For more photos, visit the Abbey’s Web site at www.kansasmonks.org.