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Spring/Summer 1998 Rector's Corner Spring/Summer 1998 Rector's Corner Most of the time I use this column to highlight the physical or programmatic improvements that we have been able to complete due to the generosity of you, our benefactors. This time I want to concentrate on the reason for all these temporal blessings, the reason all of you support us: because we are engaged in the sacred and noble enterprise of forming priests after the mind and heart of Christ! Everything we do in the natural order- expansion, renovation, modernization of facilities, scholarships, new programs- is only to help us achieve our single supernatural goal: to prepare men to be faithful, holy, and effective priests. The only way this can happen is to inspire our men to know, love, and serve Jesus Christ. The Holy Father recently remarked to priests, "Love for Jesus and His Church must be the passion of your life. " Simply put, we urge our men so to know, love, and serve Jesus that they actually become one with Him, so united to Him that they will actually act in His Person as a priest. Not only that, but so intimately united are they to Our Lord that they love His Bride, the Church. Heady stuff, all of that, I admit... but this goal of our program of spiritual formation -how is it done? I wish I could explain it succinctly, but that is tough to do! Let me try to put it this way: there is both a programmatic and an atmospheric component to our spiritual formation. Our program offers the method, the way to achieve this passionate love of Christ and His Church: daily Mass, instruction and encouragement in daily prayer, communal morning and evening prayer in the Divine Office, trust in spiritual direction, an annual retreat and periodic days of recollection, emphasis on devotion to the Eucharist and to the Blessed Mother, a reliance on the sacrament of penance, and time honored practices such as spiritual readings and acts of self denial. But important as well is the atmosphere of the College. Last year one of our new seminarians commented to me,"Here I am comfortable speaking about Jesus, my faith, my love of the Church. Here my brother seminarians encourage me and challenge me. Here I am surrounded by men who take holiness and growth in virtue very seriously." Now, that's what I mean by an atmosphere that is an essential part of our spiritual formation. As Pope John Paul II teaches, Jesus is the head of seminary. All we can do is help our men meet Him in their prayer, in the Eucharist, in the Scriptures, in the Tradition and Teaching of the Church, in His people, in His Mother, in His saints - so evident in the great city - in His vicar on earth and in one another. Once they know Him and love Him, they can then serve Him and His Church hurch forever as priests. You parents know the joy of seeing your grown children fall in love and give their lives to a man or woman in marriage. Here we have the happiness of seeing men "fall in love" with Christ and His Church and commit themselves to serve Him forever as a priest. One of the most awesome moments in my life as a rector comes at the ordination ceremony, when the bishop asks me about the candidate to be ordained, "Do you know if he is worthy?" How I wish I could see into a man's soul! He is worthy, he is ready only if - deep down inside - he has come to know and love Jesus, to have heard and answered His call, and can then turn his life over to Him and His Spouse, the Church. A seminary exists to help a man arrive at this point. That's our "spiritual formation program." When I welcome our record member of new men - 55! - on the day they arrive tired, confused, sweaty, hungry, and homesick in the College Chapel, I would comment to them, "You have left so much over the past days: family, friends, home, routine, comfort, predictability, jobs, career .. you have left it all, so you can now say with St. Paul, 'I consider all as loss when compared to surpassing gain of knowing the Lord Jesus'." There: that says it all! Rev. Msgr. Timothy M. Dolan, '76 Dan Murphy Foundation makes gift of $500,000 to seminary This largest foundation grant ever made to the North American College was announced recently by the Los Angeles-based Dan Murphy Foundation. The gift brings to $625,000 the total amount made in grants to the college by the Foundation since 1994, including $80,000 for a new telephone system. The half-million dollar gift is to be used specifically for a soon to be started major electrical rewiring job at the 50-year-old seminary building. In announcing the gift to Msgr. Timothy M. Dolan, '76, rector, Richard A. Grant, Jr., foundation secretary-treasurer, wrote: "It is the hope of the Trustees that the College will be able to match these funds with funds from other sources and thereby complete the rewiring project.' Annual Rector's Dinner 'smashing success' As always, a host of church and lay dignitaries were on hand for the Rector's Dinner. Here several cardinals, archbishops and bishops pose as a group with lay guests, who include, center left, The Honorable Lindy Boggs, American Ambassador to the Holy See. Behind her is Mr Richard A. Grant, Jr, secretaty treasurer of the Dan Murphy Foundation. Representing Sir Daniel was his sister Rosemary. In the seven years since the Pontifical North American College has organized this festive fund raiser for the benefit of this seminary, this edition was by far the best. Four hundred forty-five guests were hosted on April 23,1998 by the priests of the Graduate House of the Casa Santa Maria and by the seminarians of the theologate on the Janiculum hill. It was a grand evening of dining, entertainment and socializing. The honorees for this 1998 annual event were His Eminence Pio Cardinal Iaghi, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, a long-time friend of the College; and Sir Daniel Donohue, President of the Dan Murphy Foundation, which has assisted this seminary tremendously in updating its communication system. In attendance were their Eminences Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, William Cardinal Baum, C'58; William Cardinal Keeler, '56, C '61, Chairman of the Board of Governors, who presented awards to the honorees; Francesco Cardinal Colasuonno, Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, Edmund Cardinal Szoka, C'59 as well as His Excellency Most Rev. Giovanni Battista Re, Undersecretary of State. In addition, present were the U.S. Ambassador from the United States to the Holy See, Mrs. Lindy Boggs, as well as the ambassadors to the Holy See from Italy, Israel, Taiwan, Honduras, Argentina, Egypt, and Morocco. The seminarians worked under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Robert Jaskot, '97 (Archdiocese of Baltimore). They parked cars, checked coats, waited on tables and provided musical entertainment, directed by the Rev. Edward Smith, '82. This evening provides the College with the opportunity to host its friends and supporters besides serving as its principal annual fund-raiser. The college realized more than $85,000 from this effort. Church dignitaries abound at the annual Rector's Dinner which was a smashing success in April A churchman, Cardinal Pio Laghi, and a layman, Sir Daniel J. Donohue, were honored with the 1998 Rector's Award. Cardinal Lagbi is Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education; Sir Daniel is President of the Dan Murphy Foundation. Unfortunately, neither recipient could be present due to last minute personal reasons. Cardinal William Baum, C'58, accepted Cardinal Laghi's award and reads his message of appreciation, as Cardinal William Keeler, '56, C'61, President and Chairman of the College board of governors, and Msgr. Timothy Dolan, '76, rector stand by. Clare Boothe Luce tapestry graces library office A beautiful small-stitch tapestry now offers visual pleasure to visitors to the office of Sister Rebecca Abel, 0.S.B., College librarian. Sister reports the history of the work is incorporated on the back of the embroidery: "This project was begun by Clare Boothe Luce in the year of the Great jubilee 1950 and was completed for her on May 29th of the Marian Year, 1954, the day on which Pope Pius XII canonized Pius X, his predecessor, of undying memory. The embroidered squares represent the Litany of Our Lady of Loreto. At the center a larger square represents the Queen of Heaven and Earth." For those who want to try their skill at the Latin version, which also appears: "Opus a Clara Boothe Luce inceptum An. Maximi Jubilaei MCML pro ea absolutum est An. Mariano MCMLIV die XXIX men. Maii in qua Pius Papa MI Suum antecessorem Sanctum Pium X. Imm. Mem. Sanctorum. fastis adscripsit." Mrs. Luce was named the Ambassador to Italy in 1953, the first woman to hold such an important post. The historic small-stitch tapestry decorates the office of the College librarian, Sister Rebecca Seminary enrollment Abel, O.S.B., seen here with Fr. Cornelius M. McRae, spiritual director again rises dramatically There will be approximately 170 men - including 55 "new men" - studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College this fall. Last year there were 40 new men in a student of body of 145. Total enrollment at the college has risen more than 40% since 1991. This year's entering class continues a pattern of the past few years where many of the incoming students enter the seminary after successful careers in another vocation, including teaching, law, banking and sales.
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