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The Saint Louis Abbey, I Have Learned It Is Fruitless to Argue the Good Monks Could Regale Us with Expert Conjugations of the on Some Topics THE SAINT LOUIS ABBEY JOURNAL 2008-09 Achievements and Saint Louis Abbey was founded through the close cooperation betweenAwards Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey in England and Saint Louis laymen who, in the early 1950s, had a vision of building and maintaining a Catholic college preparatory school of the highest order and supporting a Benedictine monastery to run that school. In 1955 that vision became a reality. Today the Abbey consists of a one hundred fifty acre campus in West Saint Louis County with a monastic community that operates a day school for talented and motivated young men in grades seven through twelve, and a parish of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The heart of the Abbey is centered in the monks, the Benedictine Rule and the vow of stability taken by the monks to remain at the Abbey for life. Radiating from the monks is a warmth that nourishes an ever-wideningPRIZE familyRECIPIENTS of students and faculty, alumni, parents, parents of alumni, parishioners and other friends who, in their diversity, are FORM PRIZE – bound together through participation in the life of the Abbey. Matthew R. Menendez AU S TIBI OMINE L D IM P ROVEMENT – Praise to you, O Lord Charles J. Epstein Anthony R. Hayes THEO L OGY – Douglas J. Hall James A. Kopfensteiner Matthew R. Menendez ED ITOR : LITERARY – Julie Lohr James F. Fuller ART DIRECTION AN D DE S IGN : Shelly Kurtz CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRA P HER S : Grace Jenkerson Brother Mark Kammerer, OSB Shelly Kurtz Jerry Naunheim John Notter Edith Varley Rick Willmann THE SAINT LOUI S ABBEY JOURNA L I S P UB L I S HE D BY : Development and Public Relations Office The Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Louis 500 South Mason Road St. Louis, Missouri, 63141-8500 PHONE : 314.434.3690 FAX : 314.434.4526 EMAI L : [email protected] WEB S ITE S : www.stlouisabbey.org www.stlprioryschool.org www. stlprioryalumni.org We look forward to keeping alumni, parents, parents of alumni, parishioners and friends informed, and we encourage ideas for articles. SAINT LOUIS ABBEY JOURNAL Volume XLVIII 2008/09 Table of Contents FROM THE MONASTERY From the Calefactory: .................................................................................................................................... 3 Golden Jubilee of Father Paul Kidner's Ordination: ....................................................................................... 6 Solemn Profession of Brother Francis Hein: ................................................................................................... 7 Vocations: ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 Abbot Patrick Barry Says Good-Bye to Saint Louis Abbey: ............................................................................. 9 Luke Rigby Award: ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Obituaries: ................................................................................................................................................... 14 Necrology: ................................................................................................................................................... 16 FROM THE SCHOOL Headmaster's Message: ................................................................................................................................. 19 Junior School Report: .................................................................................................................................. 21 Achievements and Awards: ........................................................................................................................... 22 Varsity Athletes Post Season Honors: ............................................................................................................ 30 The Year in Sports: ....................................................................................................................................... 31 Graduation Day: .......................................................................................................................................... 32 Class of 2009 – College Choices: ................................................................................................................. 35 College Counseling: ..................................................................................................................................... 38 Technology: ................................................................................................................................................. 40 Admission News: ......................................................................................................................................... 41 Class of 2015: .............................................................................................................................................. 41 Faculty Development: .................................................................................................................................. 42 Student Faculty Awards ................................................................................................................................ 43 Parent Organizations: ................................................................................................................................... 44 FROM THE ALUMNI Year In Review: ............................................................................................................................................ 47 FROM THE PARISH Pastor’s Message: .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Parish Committees: ...................................................................................................................................... 49 Saint Louis Abbey Calendar ................................................................................................................................. 56 Saint Louis Abbey Organizations ...................................................................................................inside back cover 1 Monastery Stainless steel sculpture of Saint Benedict, created by St. Louis Artist Wiktor Szostalo, was a gift from Ampleforth Abbey to commemorate our elevation from a Priory to an Abbey statis in 1990. 2 FROM THE MONASTERY come to him and will make our From the Calefactory abode with him.” (John 14:23) Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB In the love of God, then, there is not only the keeping of the Since the appearance of last year’s Saint Louis Abbey Journal, in commandments, but the coming August 2008, we have all suffered a period of very significant, even of God – Father, Son and Holy severe, economic constraint, and many, faced with unemployment Spirit – into our soul, the abid- or the dwindling of investments which had been critical for their ing of the three Persons there retirement years, have suffered true material hardship, and all the forever, the beginning already in stress, uncertainty and anxiety that goes with it. We have all been this life of knowing and experi- forced to reflect on this situation and what it means for us. I suspect encing them and their presence, that the form the reflection has taken for you has been the same as the knowing and experiencing the form it has taken for us, namely, a reflection which is focused which in the next life will burst on the question: What is essential for our life and wellbeing, and forth into the Vision of God face for the life and wellbeing of those for whom we are responsible? to face, which is eternal life, eter- Would you permit me to share with you a little of my reflection on nal and infinite bliss. So there this topic? I have no doubt that it is naïve in numbers of areas, and is also for the Christian in this off the mark in others. But perhaps your reading it, and consider- world this direct knowing and loving of God, already the beginning ing what you think of it, will lead to your own reflection becoming of eternal life, of perfect fulfillment. For each of us, the indispens- clearer and stronger. able basis and also perfection of this is the Eucharist, “the source First of all, it seems to me that as Catholics we can only begin and summit of the Christian life,” and in particular the Sunday with the one certain truth we know about the meaning of our life Eucharist, the indispensable and unfathomable mystery of sacrifice and about what we should ultimately aim for, and that is the truth and communion. But for each of us as well, there must be our daily that we are all – each and every one of us – called by the Lord to personal prayer, in those forms of prayer, of the unlimited number holiness. This great truth was emphasized again and again by the of forms there are, to which the Lord calls us. In all our callings to Second Vatican Council. All Christian vocations are directed toward prayer there is this common calling, to strive to make our prayer this one great goal; they are simply assemblages of different means ever more unceasing, so that we are always aware of the Lord who is for moving toward it. And what is holiness? Our Lord told us what with us, in all the actions and sufferings and events of our daily life. it is: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and What, now, is the love of neighbor? What it is can be
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