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St. Norbert Times Volume 89 Issue 2 Article 1 9-19-2017 1993 Shrine of Mary Revitalized Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/snctimes Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, Creative Writing Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, History Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Music Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Photography Commons, Reading and Language Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, Technical and Professional Writing Commons, and the Television Commons Recommended Citation (2017) "1993 Shrine of Mary Revitalized," St. Norbert Times: Vol. 89 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/snctimes/vol89/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Digital Commons @ St. Norbert College. 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September 19, 2017 Volume 89 | Issue 2 | Serving our Community without Fear or Favor since 1929 INDEX: NEWS: 1993 Shrine of Mary Revitalized Old Doors, New ELYNOR GREGORICH | NEWS CORRESPONDENT Look SEE PAGE 2 > OPINION: Your Voice Goes Beyond Voting SEE PAGE 4 > FEATURES: A Letter from the Editors SEE PAGE 10> ENTERTAINMENT: Comeback Albums SEE PAGE 12 > SPORTS: SNC Soccer Updates The path leading into what will be the Kunkel Meditation Garden The site of the future Calawerts Family Grotto of Our Lady | SEE PAGE 14 > | Elynor Gregorich Elynor Gregorich Happy Fall, The life of the 25-year- the Virgin Mary, framed by a The original statue and Times that “We’re a Catholic old Shrine of Mary on the wooden surround and set in arbor were in place by the institution, but really have no Y’all! northeastern end of campus a circular pathway lined with end of September in 1992 place for contemplation and Fall officially be- is renewed this year by sig- benches. An inscription upon after five years of planning prayer.” From as early as the nificant expansion and reno- the statue’s base read, “Prayer and significant alterations to initial project announcement, gins September 22, vation. The original grotto, is the tiny nerve that moves the area. According to the De the Shrine’s construction has 2017 built in 1992 and dedicated in God’s hand.” A wooden arbor Pere Journal, the college ac- been seen as an opportunity 1993, is being developed into stood over the path leading to quired a permit from the DNR to provide a unique space on Take time to relax two distinct spaces for reflec- the street. The statue, sturdy to grade and fill 24,000 square campus for meditation and and enjoy autumn’s tion and meditation. The part bronze instead of more easily- feet along the river. The am- spiritual growth. Speakers at beauty in the midst of the contemplative space weathered marble, was cast bitious project was funded by its Dedication ceremony in nearest the street will become in Italy but originally ordered donations in the amount of May of 1993 emphasized its of classes! the Kunkel Meditation Gar- through Conrad Schmitt’s $95,000 from Leo and Fran exceptional tranquility, “set den, in honor of former col- Studio of New Berlin. Master Frigo and William and Nora apart at the edge of an almost lege president Tom Kunkel Craftsman Bob Berken, who Calawerts, as well as from the always bustling campus,” as “Autumn is a second and his wife Deb, while the was a member of the SNC fa- Blesers, the Burnhams, the Abbot Jerome Tremel said. spring when every original statue will be rein- cilities team, created the stat- Martha Hefferman estate, the College President Thom- leaf is a flower.” stated in a grotto set below ue surround and 15-foot path- Lumbners, ’71 and ’73, and as A. Manion, quoted by Bet- ~Albert Camus the hill which slopes toward way arbor. Both the arbor and Patrick O’Callaghan ’82. sy Foley in Knight Life, 1993, the riverbank. statue were illuminated. Other The contemplative role pointed out that although The long-standing shrine contributors to the original of the space filled an empty symbols are among the reli- occupying the .9-acre space project included CPR Associ- niche in the college plan. At gious elements of a Catho- at the intersection of Reid ates of De Pere as Architect the time of its development lic college, “most symbols Street and Kunkel Way (for- and Tillman Landscape Nurs- in 1992, St. Norbert Direc- merly First Street) was com- ery of Green Bay as General tor of Planned Giving De- SEE SHRINE Page 3 > prised of a bronze statue of Contractor. nis Day told the St. Norbert Booking It ALEX GRUBER | CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF The Center for Norber- The story of these instance had taken place at on hospitality, a key aspect and incorporated them into tine Studies (CNS) at St. books’ journey to the CNS St. Norbert Abbey in 1976, of Norbertine spirituality, its collection, mitigating Norbert College recently begins in 2012, when the so the General Chapter at has reaped and continues to at least the academic loss received two special ship- Premonstratensian, or Nor- 2012 introduced the global reap significant rewards for caused by the closures. The ments: both large crates bertine, Order met for its Norbertine community to the CNS. biggest boon for the center full of books from the Nor- General Chapter, a gath- its only institution of higher Two unfortunate events was yet to come, however. bertine abbey of Tongerlo ering of delegates and su- learning. for the Norbertine Order In March 2017, Cifer- in Westerlo, Belgium. The periors from the order’s The General Chapter as a whole benefited the ni visited Tongerlo Ab- community at Tongerlo gift- communities across the also gave many Norber- CNS in particular. After the bey, where Abbot Jeroen ed the books, produced be- world that takes place ev- tines their first experience General Chapter in 2012, De Cuyper allowed him tween the seventeenth and ery six years. The 2012 of the CNS, its collection of Kilnacrott Abbey in Ire- to look through and select twentieth centuries, to the chapter, held at St. Norbert Norbertine books and other land closed and Mondaye any books he wished from Center after their selection College, marked only the materials, and its extensive Abbey in France decided the abbey’s holdings in its by Father Andrew Ciferni, second time the event oc- research into the order at to close its priory in Italy. attic. Ciferni picked a num- O. Praem., the Director of curred outside of Europe a reception hosted by the From these locations, the BOOKS the CNS, in the summer of in the Norbertine Order’s Center for the chapter’s 120 CNS acquired materials on SEE Page 4 > 2017. 900-year history. The first participants. This instance the order no longer in print sntimes.wordpress.com facebook.com/stnorberttimes @sntimes Tuesday, September 19, 2017 NEWS sntimes.wordpress.com/news | 2 Editors in Chief: Sports Team: Alex Gruber Graeme Anastasia Gallagher Montavon Addy Bink Old Doors, New Look Leadership Copy Editing: Team: Elynor ALEX GRUBER | CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF Alex Gruber Gregorich Anastasia Julia Serra Montavon Leah Hennick Ben Paplham Students at St. Norbert 1890. In 1892, a decree of In 2015, the portico was are the Holy Family; Pen- Julia Serra College will have noticed Pope Leo XII established discovered to be structur- tecost; Norbert of Xanten; Graeme Advisor: Gallagher John Pennington the small construction crew the parish as the site of the ally unsound and in danger Mary Magdalene; Monica, Elynor Gregorich working at Old St. Joseph’s National Shrine of St. Jo- of collapse, prompting the the mother of Augustine News Team: Church. The team has been seph. The shrine moved to decision to raze it. The de- of Hippo; Hermann-Josef, Elynor Gregorich performing renovation and St. Norbert Abbey in 1969 struction of the portico left a German Norbertine saint Walker Lake restoration on the historic but returned to Old St. Jo- the original central doors of the twelfth and thirteenth Features Team: building since before the seph’s in 2016. starkly visible to anyone centuries; John the Baptist; Amy Stel Elizabeth start of the academic year. The Norbertines ar- passing by the north side of and Augustine. Tulenko Caitlin While its efforts largely rived in De Pere in Septem- the church, and discussion Deacon Kevin De- McCauley focus on maintaining the ber 1898. Before the end of soon centered on what to do Cleene, Senior Director Opinion Team: appearance and structural that year, they became the with them. or Parish Services for St. Julia Serra Cate O’Brien integrity of the church, it sponsors of St. Joseph Par- The work realized on Norbert College Parish, ex- Maggie McConnaha has also made a significant ish and its church and have the doors this year took pressed joy and apprecia- change to Old St. Joseph’s taken care of it since then. place through the collab- tion toward the work done Entertainment Team: former entrances on the St. Joseph Church took on orative efforts of personnel on the doors. Ben Paplham north side of the building. “Old” before its name in of St. Norbert Abbey, the “The really beauti- Sam Sorenson A religious structure 1976, when “New” St. Jo- College Parish, College, ful thing is that we could MISSION STATEMENT has stood on the current site seph Church, now known Performa Architects of De hold [the beginning] of The St.