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On the Hill Winter 2015 • Vol. 54:1 Alumni prepare for Day of Service Two monks join faculty Students ‘warm up’ to ministry Cover: The monks pray during Mass on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception. On the Hill Winter 2015 • Vol. 54:1 FEATURES 3 . .Monastery News 4-5 . .Project WARM 6 . .Student Profile 8 . .Faculty Books 9 . .New Saint Meinrad Tour App 10-11 . .Photos ALUMNI 12 . .Saint Meinrad Day of Service 14-15 . .Alumni Eternal and News 16 . .Alumni Reunion On the Hill is published four times a year by Saint Meinrad Archabbey and Seminary and School of Theology. The newsletter is also available online at: www.saintmeinrad.edu/onthehill Editor: . .Mary Jeanne Schumacher Copywriters: . .Krista Hall & Tammy Schuetter Send changes of address and comments to: The Editor, The Development Office, Saint Meinrad Archabbey and Seminary & School of Theology, 200 Seminarians and President-Rector Fr. Denis Robinson, OSB, present a Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN 47577, (812) 357-6501 • Fax (812) 357-6759, [email protected] skit during the St. Nicholas Banquet in December. www.saintmeinrad.edu, © 2015, Saint Meinrad Archabbey For more photos of events on the Hill, see… Pg. 10-11 Monks’ Personals Fr. Tobias Colgan and Fr. Denis Archabbot Justin DuVall traveled to of the monastic continuing formation Robinson attended the 10th anniversary St. Joseph Abbey in Covington, LA, to programs offered at Sant Anselmo, celebration at Bishop Simon Bruté take part in the celebration of its 125th Rome. Seminary in Indianapolis, IN, in anniversary. mid-September. Br. Francis Wagner has been appointed Fr. Timothy Sweeney was appointed secretary to the archabbot. He will Archabbot Justin DuVall and administrator for St. Isidore Parish in continue his writing for the Publications Fr. Julian Peters attended the Bristow and St. Martin Parish in Department at Abbey Press. installation liturgies for the new bishop Siberia. He will reside at St. Isidore. He of Toledo, Bishop Daniel Thomas, on will continue his work in the Archabbey Fr. Joseph Cox gave a retreat to the October 21-23. Archives. monks of Prince of Peace Abbey in Oceanside, CA, on December 7-12. Fr. Denis Robinson attended a Archbishop Daniel Buechlein returned VOCARE meeting, a celebration of to the monastery from Scenic Hills in Fr. Noël Mueller joins the formation vocations, in Owensboro, KY, on Ferdinand, IN, on December 22, staff for the Seminary and School of September 26. following physical therapy for hip Theology. replacement surgery. Br. Zachary Wilberding and the Br. William Sprauer has been asked by retreat staff for the Branchville Fr. Edward Linton accepted Abbot President Vincent Bataille to be Correctional Facility presented a membership on the Board of the the webmaster for the Swiss-American daylong retreat, on location, titled Friends of the Benedictines in the Holy Congregation’s website, “Blessed are the Merciful” on Land in late October. He will also serve http://www.swissamericanmonks.org. September 27. as the coordinator of guest services and 2 Monastery News: Fr. Anthony honored by NRVC and two monks join faculty Fr. Anthony Fr. Christian is Fr. Thomas is an Vinson, OSB, an assistant assistant received the professor of professor of 2014 systematic philosophy. He Recognition theology. He anticipates Award from the anticipates receiving his National completing his doctorate in Religious doctorate in philosophy from Vocation sacred theology the University of Fr. Anthony Vinson Conference Fr. Christian Raab from The Fr. Thomas Gricoski Louvain. His (NRVC), at its Catholic dissertation is on anniversary banquet on November 9 in University of America in May. the meaning of being in the philosophy Chicago. of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross A graduate of Indiana University with a (Edith Stein, d. 1942). Fr. Anthony has served two terms on degree in history and religious studies, the NRVC national board and has he formerly taught history and theology While studying at Louvain, he helped served on various committees, at St. Benedict High School in serve the pastoral needs of the English- including as chair of the finance Chicago, IL. speaking community at Sint-Kwinten committee. In 2013, he was one of the parish. NRVC site coordinators for the English- During this time, he earned an MA speaking venue for World Youth Day in degree from Loyola University in He earned a bachelor’s degree in Rio de Janeiro. pastoral studies with a concentration in philosophy from the University of religious education. He entered Saint Scranton and master’s in philosophy He also served on an advisory group to Meinrad Archabbey in 2003 and from the University of Louvain. He also study the establishment of a fund to professed his solemn vows in 2008. He has a Master of Divinity from Saint assist religious institutes in their was ordained to the priesthood in 2009. Meinrad Seminary and School of welcome of candidates with student Theology. loans. The culmination of this group’s From 2009-2014, he studied at The work was the recent development of the Catholic University of America in He joined the Saint Meinrad monastery National Fund for Catholic Religious Washington, DC, where he also served in 2005 and professed solemn vows in Vocations. as a priest-in-residence at Flather Hall. 2009. He was ordained a priest in 2010. His primary area of research is the Fr. Anthony will serve as secretary- theology of vocations and states of life, In addition to his faculty assignment, treasurer of the new fund’s board of and his dissertation concerns the ecclesial Fr. Thomas serves as one of the directors. mission of religious order priests. spiritual directors for the seminarians. He also is associate director in the Currently, Fr. Anthony serves as Fr. Christian is also interested in Office of Monastery Vocations and is a administrator of St. Meinrad (St. sacramental theology and spirituality. member of the monastery’s Liturgy Meinrad, IN) and St. Boniface (Fulda, With Fr. Harry Hagan, OSB, he is the Committee. IN) parishes and as the director of co-editor of The Tradition of Catholic pastoral formation for Saint Meinrad Prayer (2007). Seminary and School of Theology. In addition to duties on the seminary Website Two monks join faculty faculty and formation staff, Fr. On The Hill is also Fr. Christian Raab, OSB, and Fr. Christian is coordinator of the “One available on the Web: Thomas Gricoski, OSB, have joined the Bread, One Cup” College Ministry faculty of Saint Meinrad Seminary and Internship Program. www.saintmeinrad.edu/ School of Theology. onthehill 3 Project WARM provides firewood to area homes This year marks the 50th anniversary of Project WARM is a community student manager over the whole the Cooperative Action for Community endeavor. It’s an opportunity for the program. He has been involved with Development (CACD) program monastic community, the seminary Project WARM for three years, holding established to bring to life Catholic community and the local community to leadership positions two of those years. social teaching around St. Meinrad and respond together to help our brothers surrounding areas. and sisters in need, according to Fr. “When I first was asked to be on the Anthony. leadership team last year for deliveries, In 1965, when Fr. Camillus it was a really good way to get off the Ellspermann, OSB, started CACD in “We rely on the hearts and hands of Hill and get away from academics and the college seminary, students had many to realize the mission of Project interact and get connected in the several opportunities to serve the WARM,” says Fr. Anthony. community,” says Tyler. “Some of these community. They could tutor, visit people are people I could possibly be nursing home residents, provide Last year, 182 people from the ministering to as a pastor in my home religious education and help with seminary, monastery and greater diocese.” Project WARM, a service to provide community volunteered for Project firewood to heat the homes of local WARM. This fall, 40 percent of the Fr. Anthony says one of the most families during the cooler months. seminary has played a role in the valuable lessons student managers learn program’s success. is how to effectively communicate with Today, CACD is a stand-alone, not-for- volunteers and the individuals who rely profit organization, and Project WARM There are three divisions to Project on generosity. Learning how to invite is the only CACD ministry that is still WARM: collection, processing and someone to share their gifts with others active. delivery. Six seminarians make up the will be a useful skill in parish ministry. leadership team, with a manager and “You can print things in a bulletin, you “There is one great need in the area assistant manager for the collection and can make all kinds of signs, you can put still,” says Fr. Anthony Vinson, CACD processing divisions and a manager things on the website, but learning how president and director of Project who oversees delivery. to make a face-to-face ask has been one WARM. “That is where we are able to of the biggest assets Project WARM Seminarian Tyler Tenbarge, of the effectively minister and connect with alumni have received from the Diocese of Evansville, is the sixth the marginalized in the area through the program,” says Fr. Anthony. distribution of firewood.” member of the leadership team and the Keeping Project WARM running begins with the collection team, who are responsible for bringing in the wood. They work closely with Saint Meinrad’s forester, Fr. Guy Mansini, OSB, to harvest hardwood trees that have fallen on Archabbey ground. A couple of local families also donate wood from timber stands and fallen trees on their properties.