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Class NNootteess News and Information for Alumni of St. Charles College, IN THIS ISSUE St. Mary’s Seminary College and St. Mary’s Seminary Faculty News . 2 Recognition of Fr. Hurst . 4 Community Highlights . 6 t is with mixed feel - Iings that I write this Continuing Formation Programs 8 ninth and last letter as Graduation - Class of 2016 . 10 President-Rector for Alumni News. After Alumni News . 12 close to a decade as Rector I have grown in St. Charles College & my understanding of the importance of priestly St. Mary’s Seminary His Eminence Edwin Cardinal O’Brien and Fr. Thomas R. Hurst, formation in the life of College . 12 P.S.S. at Commencement, May 12th, 2016. the Church and the role St. Mary’s Seminary . 14 that St. Mary’s Seminary & University plays in In Memoriam . 18 this holy mission. In addition, my own conviction of the importance of the alumni’s involvement in the core mission of the seminary has deepened in my own mind and Heritage Society . 26 heart. At graduation this year the seminary honored Edwin Cardinal O’Brien, who served twenty years in seminary administration, by awarding him an honorary doctorate. His commencement address emphasized the critical nature of the work of the Sulpicians in the ministry of priestly formation as well as in continuing formation of clergy: “I think you can appreciate my saying that this is a kind of homecoming for me. From the start I was impressed by the Sulpician spirit of this institution – a highly motivated student body, a distinguished and committed faculty and staff, and quite especially, a most effective and generous Board of Trustees.” As I conclude my time as President-Rector let me echo the Cardinal’s view of the St. Mary’s community. I move into the next stage of my priestly life and ministry with a thankful and joyful heart for God’s goodness to me through the seminarians, faculty, Summer 2016 staff, board and the alumni of this, my alma mater . Rev. Thomas R. Hurst, P.S.S. and St. Mary’s Seminary Community Faculty News St. Mary’s Seminary & University School of Theology Faculty During his sabbatical, Dr. Michael Gorman Fr. Phillip Brown, P.S.S. was delivered the Payton Lectures at Fuller appointed by the Provincial Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California Council, with the approval of on April 6-7; his theme was "Reading John Archbishop Lori and in consulta - Missionally." He was also the keynote speaker at tion with the Board of Trustees a theology conference held on March 18-19 at Northeastern Seminary in Rochester, New York as the new President Rector of on the theme of "Participating in the Mission of St. Mary’s Seminary & University. God." On June 9-10 he will be a keynote lecturer at Trinity Fr. Brown is a Sulpician who School for Ministry near Pittsburgh for a conference on was ordained for the Diocese of "Christian Formation in a Post-Christian World." In addition, his Bismarck, North Dakota in 1989, and served as a essay "The Apocalyptic New Covenant and the Shape of Life in faculty member at St. Mary’s from 2001-2006 and the Spirit according to Galatians" is included in Paul and the the Dean of the School of Theology from 2004-2006. Apocalyptic Imagination (Fortress, 2016). Dr. Gorman has posted He has been the rector of Theological College in two new videos, the first one is 18 minutes and includes some reflections about his work in general and specifically about three Washington D.C. since 2011. For Fr. Hurst’s formal books he has written with Wipf and Stock: Reading Paul, The statement on Fr. Brown please see the St. Mary’s website Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant, and Reading www.stmarys.edu Revelation Responsibly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= DTwY1fXiPpA; the second one is a two-minute excerpt from 2 Class Notes Summer 2016 the first; it's only about Reading Paul, but it does not have everything about Reading Paul that's in the first Departing Faculty video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9boHmoOHaQ Father Michael Barré, P.S.S. “Your word is a lamp for my feet and Dr. Brent Laytham gave several presentations a light for my path.” So says the recently: “Eating Like Jesus?,” Food and Psalmist and so has Father Michael Theology: A Jewish and Christian Perspective Barré taught and lived for close to conference of the Baltimore Food and Faith fifty years as a priest with over half Project of Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable of that time at St. Mary’s. Father Future, August 11, 2015; “Food Systems, Food now leaves this seminary for the Justice,” Awake and Arise: Congregations Sulpician retirement home. His Restoring Creation Retreat of the Central insightful classes, inspiring homilies, and humorous Maryland Ecumenical Council, October 22, 2015; “From banter will continue to be with us. The entire community Strangers to Friends: Celebrating the Spirit of Vatican II,” Open extended its thanks to Father at the end of the academic Windows Festival, St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore, year Mass at which he preached a moving homily. We October 25, 2015; and “Theology of the Cross: Was Luther presented him with a gift of a picture of a Qumran manu - Wright?,” Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Nov. 5, script of Genesis chapter one. May the God who created 2015. us all continue to strengthen Michael in the next stage of his life and ministry. Fr. Jerome A. Magat, P.S.S. (cand.) was Father Daniel Grigassy, O.F.M. inducted into the Mount St. Mary's At the end of the academic year ban - University Dean's Circle of Excellence quet we bid farewell to Father Daniel Alumni Hall of Fame on March 5, 2016 in Grigassy after his four years of teach - Emmitsburg, MD. Fr. Magat was selected as ing, liturgical leadership and forma - the seminary inductee, having attended Mt. tion work at St. Mary’s. Father St. Mary's Seminary from 1997 to 2002 prior Grigassy’ s guidance of our communi - to his ordination to the priesthood for the ty liturgies in addition to his teaching Diocese of Arlington. liturgy and sacraments taught us the importance of the liturgy as the source and summit of the Church’s life. His careful guidance of seminarians in spiri - In July 2015, Dr. Bill Scalia’s poem cycle Love tual direction and mentoring assisted men in their move - in the Trial of Belief was published in the ment toward priesthood. We wish him well in his new Pomona Valley Review . In October, Dr. Scalia assignment with his Franciscan community. presented his paper “Cinema and Being: How ‘Real’ is Cinema? How ‘Real’ is Audience? Father Rene Lopez, P.S.S. An Approach Toward Transcending the At the end of the academic year Subject / Object Split in Filmic Ontology” at banquet we also bid farewell to Father the annual Literature / Film Association con - Rene Lopez after his nine years of ference in York, PA. In March 2016, Dr. teaching and formation work at St. Scalia presented “Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger: A Mary’s. We remembered Father’s Religious Allegory for a Post-Christian Age” at the Northeast intense devotion to the Word of God Modern Language Association conference in Hartford, and in in his classes and homilies as well as April he presented “The Redemptive Aesthetics of D.W. his advice to seminarians. Father will Griffith” at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association meet - be on sabbatical for a year and then take up another ing in Lincoln, NE. His brief essay on contemporary American Sulpician assignment. May the Lord strengthen him as a poet Andrea Hollander appeared in the Summer 2016 Coal Hill disciple and priest to continue walking in the footsteps of the Master. Review . Also, Dr. Scalia’s essay “ Nature and the Mind of God: Emerson’s Transcendental Aesthetic” was accepted for publica - tion in the journal Perichoresis and is forthcoming in the Fall of 2016. Summer 2016 3 Class Notes April 21, 2016 Evening Prayer and Reception in honor of Father Hurst “We thank you above all for your practice of pas - toral charity which has unified Fr. Hurst was recognized by the many different former President Rector Fr. aspects of this Robert Leavitt, P.S.S., Very seminary and uni - Rev. Ronald Witherup, P.S.S., Very Rev. John Kemper, versity and has P.S.S., Most Rev. Francis helped seminari - Malooly and Most Rev. Denis ans, priests, and Madden after his remarks. laity alike to achieve in their lives that balance and harmony so essential for true holiness,” an excerpt from Archbishop William E. Lori’s comments at the ceremony. For more details and the full remarks on the event please visit the website www.stmarys.edu Fr. Hurst with Dr. Michael Gorman and his wife Nancy. Dr. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Sacred Scripture. Msgr. Owen Campion and Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, long-time friends of Fr. Hurst, also joined him in the Sanctuary for Evening Prayer. 4 Class Notes Summer 2016 Current trustee Jack Cavanaugh and his wife Cynthia join Fr. Hurst and current trustee David Gaudreau and his wife Suzanne, at the reception. Fr. Thomas Ulshafer, P.S.S. and Mrs. Peggy Obrecht Vice Chair of the Board, Mr. David Kinkopf, and current trustees Bill Baird III and Dr. Ellen Yankellow, join Msgr. Richard Woy. Fr. Hurst joins fellow Sulpicians Fr. Gerald McBrearity and Fr. Gladstone Stevens at the event. Summer 2016 5 Class Notes Community Highlights 2015 - 2016 St.