2016 HOLY CROSS JUBILARIANS SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. HOWARD A. KUHNS, C.S.C. SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. HERMAN F. ZACCARELLI, C.S.C. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. T. PHILIP DEVLIN, C.S.C. REV. LEON J. MERTENSOTTO, C.S.C. REV. WILLIAM J. NEIDHART, C.S.C. REV. J. ROBERT RIOUX, C.S.C. REV. PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, C.S.C. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. THOMAS P. TUCKER, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. ROBERT C. ANTONELLI, C.S.C. REV. JAMES WILLIAM IRWIN, C.S.C. REV. CHARLES J. LAVELY, C.S.C. REV. LOUIS A. MANZO, C.S.C. REV. DONALD P. MCNEIL, C.S.C. REV. DANIEL PANCHOT, C.S.C. REV. CLAUDE A. POMERLEAU, C.S.C. REV. JAMES A. RIGERT, C.S.C. REV. CORNELIUS J. RYAN, C.S.C. REV. STEPHEN J. SEDLOCK C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. DENNIS L. MEYERS, C.S.C. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. JOHN J. DONATO, C.S.C. REV. MARC F. FALLON, C.S.C. REV. DAVID L. GUFFEY, C.S.C. REV. FULGENS KATENDE, C.S.C. REV. PAUL V. KOLLMAN, C.S.C. REV. RUSSELL K. MCDOUGALL, C.S.C. REV. PATRICK M. NEARY, C.S.C. REV. TIMOTHY L. O’CONNOR, C.S.C. SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. HOWARD A. KUHNS, C.S.C. SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. HERMAN F. ZACCARELLI, C.S.C. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. T. PHILIP DEVLIN, C.S.C. REV. LEON J. MERTENSOTTO, C.S.C. REV. WILLIAM J. NEIDHART, C.S.C. REV. J. ROBERT RIOUX, C.S.C. REV. PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, C.S.C. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. THOMAS P. TUCKER, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. ROBERT C. ANTONELLI, C.S.C. REV. JAMES WILLIAM IRWIN, C.S.C. REV. CHARLES J. LAVELY, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. LOUIS A. MANZO, C.S.C. REV. DONALD P. MCNEIL, C.S.C. REV. DANIEL PANCHOT, C.S.C. REV. CLAUDE A. POMERLEAU, C.S.C. REV. JAMES A. RIGERT, C.S.C. REV. CORNELIUS J. RYAN, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. STEPHEN J. SEDLOCK, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION BR. DENNIS L. MEYERS, C.S.C. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. JOHN J. DONATO, C.S.C. REV. MARC F. FALLON, C.S.C. REV. DAVID L. GUFFEY, C.S.C. REV. FULGENS KATENDE, C.S.C. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION REV. PAUL V. KOLLMAN, C.S.C. REV. RUSSELL K. MCDOUGALL, C.S.C. REV. PATRICK M. NEARY, C.S.C. REV. TIMOthY L. O’CONNOR, C.S.C. REV. LEON J. MERTENSOTTO, C.S.C. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION Rev. Leon J. Mertensotto, C.S.C., was born Oct. earned his Master’s license in 1957. His Ordination 8, 1930 in New Ulm, Minn., to John and Leona to the priesthood was a year earlier. Then, to Mertensotto. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic earn his doctorate in theology, he was advised by Grade and High School, and finished his senior his Holy Cross Provincial Director for advanced year in 1947 at Holy Cross Seminary, Notre Dame, studies to transfer to the Catholic University under Ind. The following year, he entered Sacred Heart the Dominican auspices in Fribourg, Switzerland. Novitiate in South Bend, Ind. for entry into the He finished his doctorate in 1961. Congregation of Holy Cross before transferring After eight years in Europe, he returned to Notre back to Notre Dame for his college education in Dame and was assigned to teach in the theology philosophy at Moreau Seminary, graduating from department at the University. He spent 50 years the University in 1953. teaching Christian ethics in the classroom. Next, he was sent to Rome for his theological studies at the Jesuit Gregorian University, and 13 REV. ROBERT C. ANTONELLI, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION Abba, thank you for the privilege of being at the University of Portland in Oregon. You were baptized into Your Son’s death and resurrection. always with me through it all, even though I was Thank you for letting Your Spirit guide me to not always with You, so great is Your love for even serve You and some of Your beloved children in the least of the brethren. little ways as religious and priest throughout Throughout my life, You have never ceased to these many years. Thank You, too, for the constant provide lessons of how to love You and my neighbor nourishment of the Eucharist, the strength of by the witness and example of the saints among Christian life and community. It has been a whom I have lived, for they became true educators delightful journey, with all sorts of bumps, scrapes in the faith for me. You taught me to become very and joys over the years. I pray that all will forgive grateful for each person and for Your presence in my faults and falls along the way. Your Providence them through the dynamism of the Holy Spirit. led me through years of study at home and abroad Thank You, especially, for friends, family and and then let students teach me in the classrooms siblings in Holy Cross, each of whom in different first at the University of Notre Dame and later ways revealed Your face to me, just as Father as a member of the formation staff at Moreau Moreau would often remind his family of Holy Seminary while caring for the library there at the Cross with a favorite quote from St. Paul’s Letter same time. You also gave me the privilege of being to the Galatians (2:20): “It is no longer I who live a part of the community of Holy Cross Brothers at but Christ who lives in me.” That revelation shows St. Joseph’s Farm (Granger, Indiana) my last years how smallness and frailty can coexist with the in the library. Continue to bless all those students, greatness of what Your eternal love willed for each colleagues and confreres who were indeed my of us. St. Teresa of Avila summed it up as “Sólo Dios teachers. May Our Lady of Holy Cross watch over Basta.” My limitations are many but Your immense them all with her motherly care. greatness lures me to try to live according to our You also graced me with the experience of five Constitutions as someone with hope to bring. years of the cloistered monastic life among the Thank You for not giving up on me and always Trappists in Kentucky and later offered me the renewing the opportunities for repenting, and opportunity to live a more eremitical life at the encouraging me to look forward to the beauty of the Solitude of the Savior (Rolling Prairie, Indiana). goal that is Yourself. To You, our living and loving Your right hand then directed me to further tasks God, be all glory, honor, praise and thanksgiving beyond talents in the Generalate Archives in Rome now and forever. Amen. Alleluia. followed by a pilgrim ministry in the spirit of Bro. André at St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. Most recently, You brought me to care for the archives 15 REV. JAMES WILLIAM IRWIN, C.S.C. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION To write an autobiography at 77 years of age, evening at our house. My dad was away. He was full and priest of Holy Cross to boot, will result, in the of life, bushy dark hair, stocky and dressed in khaki end, unfair to Truth – to the things God has done clothing. Who was this man laughing and talking to me, with me, and through me for others. But a happily with my mother in Spanish? Conrado, an task is a task to be completed. Eternity will bring uncle we three brothers had never met. He had me to sing of the full truth that now so escapes me. come wanting to take one of us three with him and My own biography takes form from my particular his wife, Esperanza, to live on his ranch and work awareness of being and doing. It may be easier to in his auto garage. My mother looked at the three highlight my doings, and specifically as a priest, of us and said, pointing to me: “take him.” Conrado but they are to be understood finally by the being introduced me to a totally new world in people and of my soul. It is here in this complexity of life that their way of being. Esperanza was beautiful in her I find the doings of God – the doings of Love. gentle, loving way. Through them, I came to know The only way I can understand my vocation in the life of the farm laborer and that of migrants Holy Cross is to bring forth the particularity of moving on. I did this for three summers and almost my being born Mexican American. My dad, John J. didn’t return home to continue on to Notre Dame. Irwin, born in Michigan, was of Irish descent. He But a man at the garage, a client, told me: “Go back. went to Los Angeles, studied law there and became Here is not for you.” This was God’s doing. a successful lawyer. My sense of justice and respect So I went to Notre Dame, enrolled in Engineering of others comes from my dad. My mother, Hermilia and was assigned a resident of Breen-Phillips.