Schools for the Lord's Service
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
979-8-4008-0141-9 (ISBN)
Commissioned by the American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation, Schools for the Lord’s Service is a comprehensive narrative history of the oldest congregation of Benedictine monasteries in the United States. In vivid detail, it describes how monasteries of the American-Cassinese Congregation initiated monastic life in North America according to the Rule of St. Benedict and how, in doing so, they have engaged for nearly 170 years with the American Catholic Church, the global Benedictine Order, the Holy See, and American society.
Following a Benedictine tradition that stretches back to the early Middle Ages, American-Cassinese monks spread out from Pennsylvania to establish monasteries throughout the United States. Led by Boniface Wimmer, a visionary monk from the Bavarian abbey of Metten, the Benedictines introduced monastic observance according to the Rule of St. Benedict in these monasteries, and from them they founded missions, parishes, and schools where they continue to carry on pastoral, educational, and missionary apostolates in the service of the people of God. Comprised of twenty-five monasteries located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Taiwan, the legacy and spirit of the American-Cassinese Benedictines continues to reinforce and complement the words of Abbot Boniface Wimmer who constantly exhorted his Benedictine brothers and sisters, “Forward, always forward.”
Jerome Oetgen is author of An American Abbot: Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., 1809–1887; Mission to America: A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the First Benedictine Monastery in the United States; and Always Forward: A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, 1949–2020. He is also editor of Boniface Wimmer: Letters of an American Abbot. Educated from an early age by the Benedictines, Oetgen is a graduate of St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania and holds an MDiv from St. Vincent Seminary, an MA from the University of North Carolina, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. A retired senior foreign service officer, he served at United States embassies in Italy, Spain, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Haiti. He currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.
Contents
Foreword xv
Abbreviations xix
Acknowledgments xxi
PART 1 ORIGINS AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT: 1855–1905
Chapter 1 A New Benedictine Congregation 3
Table 1: American-Cassinese Monasteries (Founded 1846–1895) 4
Nineteenth-Century Benedictine Revival 5
Benedictine Congregations in History 6
Establishment of the American-Cassinese Congregation 12
Early Autonomous Monasteries 18
St. Vincent Abbey, Pennsylvania 18
St. John’s Abbey, Minnesota 20
St. Benedict’s Abbey, Kansas 22
St. Mary’s Abbey, New Jersey 25
San José Priory, Texas 28
St. Malachy’s Priory, Iowa 30
Maryhelp Abbey, North Carolina 33
St. Procopius Abbey, Illinois 35
St. Meinrad Abbey, Indiana 38
Chapter 2 Bavarian Antecedents 41
Constitution and Statutes of the Bavarian Congregation 44
Structure and Customs of the American-Cassinese Congregation 54
Table 2: American-Born Clerical Monks, American-Cassinese Congregation, 1869–1920 65
Table 3: Benedictine Monastic Population by Congregation in 1880 70
Table 4: Lay Brothers in American-Cassinese Monasteries in 1905 71
Chapter 3 Institutional Developments 77
Publications of the Congregation 83
Album Benedictinum of 1880 86
Second Abbot President: Alexius Edelbrock 88
Missionaries and Contemplatives 93
Irish and German Catholics 96
Bishop Leo Haid and the Tenth General Chapter 102
Chapter 4 Additional Foundations 107
The American Civil War 107
St. Bernard Abbey, Alabama 113
St. Leo Abbey, Florida 116
Holy Spirit Priory, Ecuador 120
New Cluny Priory, Illinois 124
St. Anselm Abbey, New Hampshire 130
St. Bede Abbey, Illinois 136
St. Martin’s Abbey, Washington 141
Holy Cross Abbey, Colorado 144
Chapter 5 Turn of the Century 151
Statutes of 1893 151
Abbot President Innocent Wolf (1896–1902) 156
American-Cassinese Schools 159
St. Vincent College, Pennsylvania 160
St. John’s University, Minnesota 161
St. Benedict’s College, Kansas 162
St. Benedict’s College, New Jersey 163
Benedictine College, Georgia, and Benedictine College, Virginia 164
St. Mary’s College, North Carolina 165
St. Procopius College, Illinois 166
St. Leo College, Florida 167
St. Bernard College, Alabama 168
St. Anselm College, New Hampshire 170
St. Martin’s College, Washington 171
St. Bede College, Illinois 173
St. Leander’s College, Colorado 174
Standardizing American Benedictine Education 175
Fourteenth General Chapter (Abbot President Peter Engel) 177
St. Leo Abbey, Florida 177
New Cluny Priory, Illinois 178
St. Leander Priory, Colorado 179
St. Martin’s Priory, Washington 179
The American-Cassinese Congregation in 1905 180
PART 2 AN AGE OF CHALLENGE AND GROWTH: 1906–1955
Chapter 6 Developments in the Monasteries and Schools 187
A Territorial Abbey in North Carolina 187
A New Abbot President 189
National Benedictine Educational Association 191
A Territorial Abbey in Saskatchewan 197
Holy Cross Abbey in Colorado 200
St. Anselm Abbey in New Hampshire 202
St. Andrew Abbey in Ohio 207
St. Gregory’s Abbey in Oklahoma 211
Assumption Abbey in North Dakota 221
Chapter 7 A Catholic University in China 231
American Benedictines Go to China 233
American-Cassinese Congregation “Call to Arms” 236
Opening of the Catholic University of Peking 239
Setbacks in China and an Ill-Advised Loan 242
Death of the Archabbot 245
The Loan Comes Due 247
Progress at the Catholic University of Peking 248
“Mein Sorgenkind” 249
“An Accomplished Fact” 252
The Sleeping Giant Awakens 257
Ruling of the Court 259
Aftermath of Judgment 261
Resolution 264
Chapter 8 New Statutes, Liturgy, and Scholarship 271
The Revised Statutes of 1941 273
Radios in the Cloister 278
Monastic Ritual of 1942 280
Virgil Michel and the Liturgical Movement 282
Benedictine Liturgical Conference 285
General Chapter of 1944 292
Abbot President Alcuin Deutsch and the Pre-Eminence of St. John’s Abbey 294
Abbot President Mark Braun and the Post-War Years 296
The American Benedictine Academy 298
The American Benedictine Review 302
Scholarship in the American-Cassinese Congregation 303
Chapter 9 Initiatives at Mid-Century 309
Table 5: Number of American-Cassinese Monks, 1935–2000 311
Simple Monasticism 312
King of Martyrs Priory 314
Abbot President Denis Strittmatter 321
The Status of Lay Brothers 326
Governance of American-Cassinese Colleges 332
St. Procopius Abbey’s Russian Mission 337
PART 3 THE AGE OF VATICAN II: 1956–2000
Chapter 10 Priories and Foreign Missions 345
Table 6: American-Cassinese Priories and Foreign Missions 347
Dependent Priories That Became Autonomous Abbeys 348
Newark Abbey (Newark, New Jersey) 348
Mary Mother of the Church Abbey (Richmond, Virginia) 353
Abbey of Tepeyac (Mexico City, Mexico) 355
Abbey of San Antonio Abad (Humacao, Puerto Rico) 359
Current Dependent Priories 362
São Bento Priory (Vinhedo, Brazil) 362
Woodside Priory (Portola Valley, California) 364
Tibatí Priory (Bogotá, Colombia) 366
São José Priory (Mineiros, Brazil) 369
Wimmer Priory (Taishan, Taiwan) 371
Former Independent Priories 374
Sacred Heart Priory (Savannah, Georgia) 374
St. Augustine’s Priory (Nassau, Bahamas) 376
St. Maur’s Priory (Indianapolis, Indiana) 379
Holy Trinity Priory (Butler, Pennsylvania) 382
Dependent Priories That Closed 384
St. Anselm’s Priory (Tokyo, Japan) 384
King of Martyrs Priory (Fifield, Wisconsin) 387
Benedictine Priory (Chiayi, Taiwan) 387
St. Mark’s Priory (South Union, Kentucky) 391
Chapter 11 Monastic Renewal 393
Perfectae Caritatis 395
A Framework for Monastic Renewal 396
Vernacular in the Divine Office 402
Nonclerical Choir Monks 407
Thirty-Sixth General Chapter, First Session 1968 410
Renew and Create 419
Thirty-Sixth General Chapter, Second Session 1969 422
Juridic Elements 425
Proposed Amalgamation with Swiss-American Congregation 428
Chapter 12 Engaging Contemporary Culture 433
Apostolates 436
Serving the Church as Bishops 437
Formation 438
Visitations 440
Liturgical Renewal 442
Temporary Promises vs. Temporary Vows 446
The Common Life 448
Monastic Stewardship 450
Monasticism and Contemporary Culture 454
Monastic Work and Leisure 458
The Sesquimillennial Celebration 461
Monastic Spirituality and RB 1980 464
Declining Membership (1965–1980) 470
Chapter 13 Approaching the Millennium 477
Constitutions and Directory 480
Election of Abbot President Melvin Valvano 482
Abbatial Tenure 485 China Mission Redux 488
Guidelines for Abbatial Elections 492
Guidelines for Visitations 493
Financial Norms 495
Monastic Ritual 496
Monastic Poverty 497
Protection of Children 499
Viability of the Monasteries 501
The Oblate Movement 506
Architectural Innovation 508
The American-Cassinese Congregation in the Year 2000 514
PART 4 A NEW MILLENNIUM: 2001–2023
Chapter 14 Monasteries and Schools in the New Century 519
State of the Congregation in 2001 520
American-Cassinese Schools 523
Table 7: American-Cassinese Schools (2001) 524
Ecumenical Movement 534
International Benedictine Relations 536
Non-Ordained Abbots 542
Mount Saviour Monastery, New York 547
Suppression of Holy Cross Abbey 549
Monasteries in Need of Assistance 552
Holy Trinity Monastery, Pennsylvania 552
St. Leo Abbey, Florida 553
Abadía de Tepeyac, Mexico 554
Mount Saviour Monastery, New York 555
Mary Mother of the Church Abbey, Virginia 556
Abadía de San Antonio Abad, Puerto Rico 557
Chapter 15 Looking Ahead 559
Congregational Leadership (2001–2023) 559
The Tragedy of Sexual Abuse 563
Ascetical Practices 568
Heritage of Boniface Wimmer 570
Disappearing Apostolates 571
Coronavirus Pandemic 578
Vocation Outreach and Social Media 581
Table 8: American-Cassinese Novices (1965–2023) 583
Intercultural Developments 586
Synodality and the Benedictine Rule 589
Mutual Assistance 592
Enduring Apostolates 595
What Does the Future Hold? 602
Selected Bibliography 609
Appendices 625
Index 629
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Collegeville, MN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 967 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-4008-0141-9 / 9798400801419 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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