Abbey News and Notes
March 2011 Trinity Benedictine Monastery in Japan
Trinity Monastery in Fujimi (Nagano) Japan suffered no major damage. But one of the monks lost his grandmother, mother and sister who lived in a different part of Japan near the earth quake.
Father Don Talafous OSB, in one of his Daily Reflections, speaks about how difficult it is to comprehend the enormity of the multiple disasters that have befallen the people of Japan. Communications are still sparse from the afflicted Diocese of Sendai, with 11,000 Catholics, that includes the areas hardest-hit in the disaster. Several monks of Trinity Benedictine Monastery, Fujimi, Japan, shared reports with the monks of Saint John's Abbey, the founding community. The reports mention little damage at Fujimi, some disruption at the Trappistine monastery, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, and the death of a Redemptorist priest whose car was swept away.
December 2010 - Sprinker system break causes major damage in monastery.
September 14, 2010 - Four novices make first vows.
September 10, 2010 Reception of Novices and Claustral Oblate. Theophane Windschitl and Eric Pohlman received the Benedictine habit. Later Isaiah Frederick received the habit as a Claustral Oblate.
July 11, 2010 Solemn Professions and Jubilees
Two young men made final vows as monks of St. John's.
Jubilarians renewing their monastic vows.
Anniversaries of priesthood.
November 11, 2010
Press Release
October 28, 2010
Saint John's Abbey Goes Solar! Construction on Solar Photovoltaic Project is up and running.
FUJIMI, Japan -- Adam Minter writes about his experience of a long weekend at Trinity Benedictine Monastery for MinnPost (Full text).
Fr. Robert Koopmann OSB
Named 12th President at Collegeville
May 18, 2009
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- On 18 May 2009, the Board of Regents of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, nominated Father Robert Koopmann OSB to become the 12th president of the university. Abbot John Klassen OSB appointed him president to take office 1 July 2009.
News Release
Cardinal Walter Kasper Receives Pax Christi Award and Delivers Diekmann Lecture
March 21, 2009
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will deliver the Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, Lecture and receive the Pax Christi Award from Saint John's Abbey and University at 8 p.m. Monday, March 23, in the Abbey Church. The presentation and lecture are free and open to the public.
News release.
+ Brother Dietrich Reinhart OSB, 1949-2008
January 7, 2009
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- Brother Dietrich Reinhart OSB, 59, monk and Catholic educator, died peacefully in St. Raphael Hall, the retirement center at Saint John's Abbey, on Monday, December 29, 2008. Abbot John Klassen OSB presided at the Mass of Christian Burial, Tuesday, January 6, in the Abbey Church. Interment followed in Saint John's Abbey Cemetery. Read the obituary or media coverage.
August 13, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Jim Umhoefer, freelance writer from Sauk Centre, writes about the natural beauty of Saint John's campus in the Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Read the article.
Monastic Celibacy East and West
April 14, 2008
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- Liturgical Press recently published
Demythologizing Celibacy: Practical Wisdom from Christian and Buddhist Monasticism
by Father William Skudlarek OSB. In September 2007 the Abbot Primate appointed Father William, a
monk of Saint John's Abbey, General Secretary of
Monastic Interreligious Dialogue.
News Release.
Pope Accepts the Saint John's Bible
April 4, 2008
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- In Rome, on Friday morning, 4 April, Abbot John Klassen OSB, Brother Dietrich Reinhart OSB, and others presented the St. Peter Apostles Edition of The Saint John's Bible to Pope Benedict XVI. While perusing
a deluxe facsimile of the handwritten and illuminated book commissioned by
Saint John's Abbey
and University, the Holy Father said,
"This is a great work of art. A work for eternity." (AP) "The 'Wisdom Books,' a limited edition reproduction of one of the Old Testament volumes of the 1,150 page-Bible
-- measuring 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide when open -- was presented to the pope during a private audience. He will receive the remaining six volumes over the next four years" (BBC).
The gift to Pope Benedict from the abbey and university was made possible through the generosity of the Gerald and Henrietta Rauenhorst Foundation of Philadelphia.
View a brief
video of the presentation or read a comprehensive
news release.
Marcel Breuer at Saint John's
The architect used Gothic inspiration to create a Modernist campus
March 4, 2008
"A visitor to Saint John's University and Saint John's Abbey, in north-central Minnesota, sees something of that Gothic heritage while standing in front of the abbey church, designed and built around 1960. The church's 112-foot campanile — a trapezoidal slab made of 2,500 tons of steel and concrete — stands boldly in front of a huge concrete honeycomb wall, with stained glass set in each of the perfect hexagonal cells." So begins an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by senior reporter Scott Carlson.
Saint John's Abbey Cemetery Featured in Commonweal Magazine
February 28, 2008
COLLEGEVILLE, MINN. -- Commonweal featured a meditation on death and the saints by a frequent visitor to the Abbey. Gilbert Friend Jones OblSB penned "A Cloud of Witnesses: Thoughts on an Abbey Cemetery." Friend Jones is an Oblate of Saint John's Abbey and a UCC minister in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Saint John's Abbey Church featured in The New York Times
January 10, 2008
COLLEGEVILLE, MINN. -- The New York Times featured Saint John's Abbey Church in a January 6, 2008, article about the Historic Campus Architecture Project that documents significant buildings throughout the U.S. SJU News Release.
The architecture of Saint John's was also featured in Architecture Minnesota (Jan/Feb 2008) 25-38.
"Dear Abbey" - Review of Abbey Guesthouse
Published: 14 October 2007
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. -- Julio Ojeda-Zapata is an alumnus of Saint John's University. He and his wife have visited campus frequently. On 14 October 2007, Julio published "dear abbey," in the Sunday Travel Section of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is an enthusiastic review of the Abbey Guesthouse.
Illustrated PDF version: Part 1 and Part 2.
Series to Feature Report on
Mennonite-Catholic Talks
Release Date: September 21, 2007
COLLEGEVILLE, MINN. -- Ivan Kauffman, an independent writer who was born and educated in the Mennonite community and has been a Catholic since 1968, will summarize an ongoing dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics, October 14, as part of Saint John's Abbey's Second Sunday series. The 7 p.m. presentation in the Chapter House (adjacent to the Abbey Church) is free and open to the public.
News release.
What our leaders could learn from the Benedictines
September 19, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. -- An age-old guide would teach them to act collaboratively but decisively for the common good. Full Article by Eric Shubert, Minneapolis Tribune.
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