December 2018 Magazine
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A Message from the Head of School Dear Friends, I am very excited to share the news that we have reached our enrollment goal that I set when becoming Head of School and Principal six years ago. We opened the 2018 – 2019 MARMION Academic Year with 551 students, the largest enrollment The News Magazine of on the Butterfield Campus in Marmion history! Marmion Abbey and Academy At a time of great competition amongst schools for enrollment, with many schools in our area trending down, December 2018 | Vol. 69, No. 1 we have been growing steadily these past five years. We have worked very hard to embrace change, balancing over 1,500 years of Benedictine tradition, while embracing 21st century pedagogy. MARMION is published three times a year (December, April, Initiatives started five years ago have collaboratively evolved and grown, including: Starting a August) by Marmion, 1000 center for academic support, help and guidance; adding Advanced Placement and Dual Credit Butterfield Road, Aurora IL, courses; adding STEM and engineering courses that offer the opportunity for students to work with 60502. large companies on research projects and designs; and adding hockey and volleyball programs. Publisher: In order to continue the success we are enjoying and remaining a leader in providing the best Rt. Rev. John Brahill OSB ‘67 Catholic Benedictine college preparatory education possible, we must continue to review, renew, and evolve as a school community. At the heart of our success is the ever-presence of the Monks Editor: Madelyn Weed of Marmion Abbey, as well as the Benedictine charism that can be felt throughout the halls of the Academy and in everything we do. We are truly blessed to have the monks’ active presence, Associate Editor: Terri Rios leadership, and role modeling at the Academy - they are ‘the Marmion Advantage’ and are Contributing Writers: examples of what it means to be a Christian leader for us all. Fr. Thomas Bailey OSB As we continue to look to the monks as examples in our lives, as a school community, we are Rt. Rev. John Brahill OSB ’67 Dan Brewster reflecting upon the Hallmarks of a Benedictine Community and what is means to be a Christian Bill Fox ’74 leader. To this end, we began the school year with a review of the hallmarks and shared reflections Chloe Fox by the administration, faculty, staff, and students. During this School Year, we are focusing on the Nancy E. Hansen two hallmarks of Love and Stewardship and how to live these out in all that we do. Kathleen Hausmann Shirley Mott Moving forward, we will continue to examine two to three hallmarks each year as a community, Olivia O’Connor renewing our focus on specific hallmarks in a four-year cycle. The Monks of Marmion Abbey and Fr. Charles Reichenbacher OSB ’59 our Spiritual Formation Committee will continue to guide us along our personal faith journey, Terri Rios helping all to live out the hallmarks by providing monthly reflections and exercises. Anthony Tinerella ’84 Madelyn Weed I invite you to join our reflection on the Benedictine Hallmarks and what Marmion means to you. I ask that you take a few minutes to view the latest video produced by Christian Surtz ’16, a junior Photographers: at Northwestern University, and see Marmion through the eyes of a recent Marmion alum and the Dan Brewster, Brian Cole ’81, current students here today. The video is a testament to the great work we continue to do here, Bill Fox ’74, Randy Lagman, God’s work, of bringing our students closer to God and readying them to be Christian leaders in Mark Malkowski, Shirley Mott, our world. Terri Rios, Tony Zangler Thank you for your continued prayers and support, and please know that you continue to be an Cover Photo by Brian Cole ’81 integral part of our success and growth. Together we can further the legacy and add to the history Send address changes to: of Marmion for generations to come. MARMION Magazine Editor Marmion Academy May God bless and watch over each of you and 1000 Butterfield Road your families, and may God continue to bless Aurora, IL 60502 Marmion Academy. Phone: (630) 897-6936 Respectfully, FAX: (630) 723-3072 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: marmion.org Please take a moment to visit marmion.org/2022 Anthony Tinerella ’84 to view the amazing video produced by alumnus Head of School and Principal Christian Surtz ’16. 2 - Head of School Letter Serving the Universal Church by Fr. Thomas Bailey OSB that time, the community has found other opportunities to be of service to the universal church through the ministries of individual monks in a variety of ways, such as Br. Placid’s many years as a prison chaplain in South Dakota, Frs. Martin, Bernard and Paul’s military chaplaincies and Abbot Vincent’s work as a spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary to name a few. This past summer a new opportunity to serve the universal church was asked of Marmion. After a decade working at Conception Seminary College and eight years as the priest at St. Luke Byzantine Catholic Church in Kansas City, I was assigned at the request of Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, OSB, and with the permission of Abbot John to begin working at the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius in Rome as the Prefect of Studies. My responsibilities are similar to what I was doing before, working personally with men who are preparing for priestly ministry. I see the many challenges, One of the vows monks take is stability, and because of that vow including working with people from various cultures, but am people grow accustomed to seeing Fr. Joel, Fr. Bernard, Br. André confident the Holy Spirit will provide the grace necessary for me or any other monk of Marmion whenever they visit the abbey or to be His instrument. The academic year did not begin in Rome academy; part of the Marmion Advantage as we say. There is a until this past October, but I traveled there in mid-July to begin local dimension, which is ingrained in the life of a Benedictine learning Italian and start the necessary immigration process monk. However, since the time of St. Benedict it was never seen in Italy. My responsibilities this fall include continuing my as exclusively local. When monks pray, they pray for the whole language studies, as well as being of support to the seminarians Church. A good example of this is in the intercessory prayers and student-priests in the college. As I progress in my Italian, I included at Lauds and Vespers. The first one is a prayer for will also begin to take on responsibilities as a spiritual director. Abbot John (the uniting figure of our local monastic community), Bishop David Malloy (the symbol of communion for the Church Following Noon Prayer in the monastery the day before I left for of Rockford to which we belong), and Pope Francis (the chief Rome, Abbot John imposed his and the community’s blessing on shepherd of the universal Church). Making note of all three is me and my new ministry. To me, that was an important moment, one of the ways to maintain the Communion of the Church, for because it is the link that keeps me connected to Marmion which Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, as well as though I’m 5,000 miles away. Every night, that blessing and participate in the sanctification of the world. connection is renewed, when at Compline in the Abbey Church the monks pray ‘for all our absent brethren,’ and I do the same In 1966 the monks of Marmion made a concerted effort to have in the Chapel of St. Benedict in the Greek College. My ministry a physical manifestation of that universality when the Priory and my confreres’ ministries are all connected together for the and Seminary of San José were established in Guatemala. Since glory of God and the sanctification of the world. Br. Mariano Professes Temporary Vows Abbey News Br. Mariano DiCristofano, OSB made his three-year Introducing Fr. Douglas Martis, PhD, STD ’81 Temporary Profession of Vows as a Benedictine monk of Fr. Douglas Martis, a priest of the Marmion Abbey on October 3, 2018, the Feast of Blessed Diocese of Joliet, began his novitiate Columba Marmion. He was born on June 11, 1952 to the year at Marmion on August 5, at First late Daniel and Irene DiCristofano of Chicago and given the Vespers of the Lord’s Transfiguration, name Henry at his baptism. as a Benedictine-in-training for He requested the name Marmion Abbey. Mariano at his profession of vows, in honor of After his ordination in 1989, following the Blessed Mother and theological studies at St. Mary of the to recognize his Italian Lake Seminary, Mundelein, he was heritage. Br. Mariano given various parish assignments in earned a Masters of Music the Joliet Diocese. He received his advanced degrees in in 1979 from Northwestern theology from the University of Paris, the Sorbonne. In recent University, majoring in years he has been the director of the Liturgical Institute organ and church music. of Mundelein Seminary, near Chicago, and professor of He was a church musician liturgical studies at the Pontifical College Josephinum, near for 37 years at three south- Columbus, OH. side Chicago parishes. Abbey - 3 Abbey Farms Hosts Ribbon Cutting for the Founders Grove by Shirley Mott Before the hustle and bustle of Pumpkin Daze at Abbey Farms began, apple tree sponsors were invited to a ribbon cutting for the Founders Grove.