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Volume 5, Issue 1 Fall 2012 Faith Seeking Understanding The Saint Benedict Education Foundation Sant’ Anselmo: The International Benedictine University In Rome Saint Benedict Education Foundation Annual Lecture You are Invited “Liturgy and the New Evangelization” Archbishop Wilton Gregory ARCHBISHOP OF ATLANTA Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:00 a.m. Fred. M. Rogers Center Admission is free, however, Saint Vincent College reservations are required. Saint Benedict Saint Benedict Education Foundation Education Foundation From the President Publisher: ear Friends, Most Reverend Notker Wolf, O.S.B., D On October 11, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI Abbot Primate inaugurated “the Year of Faith” with the opening of the Synod on the New Evangelization. His Holiness said that President: “the Year of Faith…is a summons to an authentic and Father Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. renewed conversion to the Lord.” [email protected] We are honored to mark the inauguration of the Year Director of Development: of Faith with a lecture by Archbishop Wilton Gregory Paul R. Whiteside of Atlanta on Tuesday, November 27 at 11:00 a.m. at [email protected] the Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College. Bishop Donald W. Trautman, Bishop Emeritus of Erie, will Editor: Kim Metzgar introduce Archbishop Gregory and join in the discussion [email protected] on “The Liturgy and the New Evangelization.” The Saint Benedict Education Foundation plays a vital role in the New Design and Layout: Evangelization by helping to prepare young Benedictine men and women to Simon Stuchlik proclaim the Gospel message through the world. As the international center of Benedictine life, Sant’ Anselmo has students from nearly 50 nations Assistant: represented among its student body. Carmen Eisaman These Benedictines are trained in philosophy, theology, liturgy, the [email protected] sacraments, monastic studies and other areas. They will return to their monasteries in developing nations to help prepare future generations to give witness to the faith, which Jesus Christ has proclaimed. 2 | Fall 2012 For those Benedictines who come from the traditional centers of Western Civilization, particularly Europe and the Americas, the Year of Faith provides an opportunity to reinvigorate the faith by preparing teachers and preachers who will be able to take on the challenges of an increasingly secularized culture—a Board culture which in many ways is indifferent or even hostile to the Gospel message. Board of Incorporators The Year of Faith also is a time “to intensify the witness of charity,” according Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, O.S.B. to Pope Benedict XVI. “Faith without charity bears no fruit, while charity without Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B. faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt. Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B. Peace, Board of Directors Dr. Stephen Butler, chairman Father Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. Mr. Robert Cahill Jr., emeritus Sister Judith Ann Heble, O.S.B. Faith Seeking Understanding Rev. Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. Published by The Saint Benedict Education Foundation, Inc. J. Harry Haslam 300 Fraser Purchase Road Rosemary V. Madonia Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650-2690 USA Telephone: 724-805-2607 Fax: 724-805-2891 Rev. Edward Mazich, O.S.B. email: [email protected] Dr. Leo J. Shea, III http://www.stbenedictfoundation.org Mr. Paul Whiteside Address Service Requested Mrs. Camille Kiely Kelleher Photographs by: Father Blasio Park, O.S.B. Kim Metzgar Aletti Centre Fall 2012 | 3 Sunset at the Barn The Pittsburgh-Latrobe-Greensburg chapter of the Saint Benedict Education Foundation hosted its second annual Sunset at the Barn on August 18 at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, Latrobe. Over 150 patrons of the SBEF gathered for the event, which supports the education of Benedictine students at Sant’ Anselmo, the international Benedictine University in Rome. The Foundation expresses its heartfelt gratitude to the Committee for the “Sunset at the Barn” event and to those who generously supported the event. The Pittsburgh-Latrobe-Greensburg chapter has raised over 4 | Fall 2012 $20,000 in the past year to fund a full scholarship. Letters from Rome Gratitude for Becoming his Country’s first Doctor of Liturgy Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ and Saint Benedict, I would like to thank Sant’ Anselmo for this opportunity to briefly summarize my experience at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. It has been a marvelous experience for me from all points of views: spiritual, cultural and intellectual. I had to learn a new language, Italian, and adjust to a new culture and lifestyle, because in my land of Burkina Faso, in the African Savannah, we have a very different lifestyle and, even more, a very different sense of life as a whole. However, every day that passed was a further step towards a richer relationship with my fellow students. This very positive experience helped the rest of my academic studies, which were finished, on June 4, 2012, with the defense of my doctoral thesis. During the third year of my doctorate, in January 2010, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, asked me to work with the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. Thus I had to carry two demanding responsibilities: to write my thesis and to work in the Curia. I thank the Lord that He gave me the strength to do this; otherwise I would have had to give up my doctorate. Once more, I felt myself supported and encouraged by my professors at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, my classmates and my other friends and colleagues. The experience of Sant’ Anselmo prepares those who will work for the young Churches. I am very grateful to the Saint Benedict Education Foundation, which supported me with a scholarship for the three years of my doctoral studies. The Foundation should know that, thanks to its generosity, I received the first ever doctorate in sacred liturgy in my country, and my country truly has great need of such experts. We hope to be able to send more students to Sant’ Anselmo for priestly and academic formation. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. May God bless all those involved in the work of the Foundation. In Christ, D . K ris to D. Kristo R. Ouedraogo Fall 2012 | 5 Most Rev. Notker Wolf, O.S.B. Re-elected Abbot Primate at 2012 Congress of Abbots n Friday, September 21, 2012, 250 members of the International OCongress of Abbots re-elected Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, O.S.B., to continue to serve as the international spokesman and leader of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation. Abbot Primate Notker is the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Col- lege of Sant’ Anselmo, Rome, and representative of the Benedictine Order in Rome. The Benedictine Order consists of 380 monasteries and 7,358 monks. There are also 13,650 Benedictine sisters throughout the world. Abbot Notker serves as Chair for Aid to Benedictine Monasteries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; the Interreligious Monastic Dialogue; and the Benedictine Commission on China. He is also a member of the Euro- pean Academy of Sciences; member of the Advisory Board of the Gothaer Versicherungsbank (Germany) and member of the Congregation for Reli- gious (Rome). He has traveled the world to promote the Benedictine way of life. He has received numerous awards including the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bavarian Constitution Medal, the Wolfram-Engels Award, and the Pax Christi Award of Saint John’s Abbey and University. He is fluent in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Latin and Greek. 6 | Fall 2012 Sant’ Anselmo Alumnus Installed Saint Benedict Education Foundation as New Archbishop of Denver opens new Chapter in Savannah bbot Primate Notker Wolf, rchbishop Samuel J. AO.S.B., and members of AAquila was installed as the the Saint Benedict Education Archbishop of Denver on July Foundation held their annual fall 18 at the Cathedral Basilica in meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Denver. The graduate of Sant’ The meeting was hosted by SBEF Anselmo was appointed by Pope Board member Harry Haslam Benedict XVI. and his wife, Kimi. Savannah Archbishop Aquila served is also the most recent city in the Denver Archdiocese for the U.S. to establish its own Board member Harry Haslam 25 years. Born in Burbank, SBEF chapter, joining Chicago, California, he earned a bachelor Tampa, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Latrobe. of arts degree from the Future sites for local chapters are also being planned for University of Colorado (1972); the West Coast and the East Coast (Northeast). Chapters a master of arts degree in theology from Saint Thomas are organized to support specific educational programs or Seminary (1976). He went on to earn the S.T.L. degree in scholarships for Sant’ Anselmo. sacramental theology from the Sant’ Anselmo in 1990. Start a Sant’ Anselmo Chapter Five other Sant’ Anselmo alumni are currently serving To form a chapter, contact: as bishops in the U.S., including Archbishop Emeritus Rev. Benoît Alloggia, O.S.B. Daniel Buechlein, O.S.B., Indianapolis; Archbishop Wilton D. Telephone: 724-805-2607 Fax: 724-805-2891 Gregory, O.S.B., Atlanta; Archbishop Jerome Hanus, O.S.B., email: [email protected] www.stbenedictfoundation.org Dubuque; Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Seattle; and Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, Providence. Fall 2012 | 7 Archbishop Wilton J. Gregory To Give Lecture November 27 at Saint Vincent rchbishop Wilton J. Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta will give the fourth annual lecture of the Saint Benedict AEducation Foundation at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27, at the Fred M. Rogers Center. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop Emeritus of Erie and former Chair fo the USCCB Liturgy Committee, will introduce Archbishop Gregory and join in the discussion on “Liturgy and the New Evangelization.” A luncheon will follow.