Volume 37, Nr. 2b, June 2007 Richardton, ND 58652
The Monastic Liturgy Forum Conference and Benedictine Musicians of the Americas joint conference will be held at Sacred Heart Monastery, Yankton, SD, July 17-21. “Changing Realities: Living the Monastic Tradition in the 21st Century” will include addresses on the theology of aging by Father Raymond Studzinski, OSB, and gerontologist Dr. Beth Mikkelson. These will be followed by a panel presentation bridging the material presented by the speakers and results of a survey <www.osb.org/mlf/survey0701.html>. The Benedictine Musicians group will present music which supports the theme of the conference. Texts have been elicited from monastic writers and sent to BMA composers. See the MLF website: <www.osb.org/mlf/> for contact information.
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The North American Association of Benedictine Oblate Directors will hold their biennial meeting July 28- August 2, 2007. The communities of St. Martin‘s Abbey and St. Placid’s Priory will host the meeting on the campus of the University of St. Martin in Lacey, WA. The theme of the meeting, which is held for monastic oblate directors and selected oblate representatives, is “The Charism of Benedictine Leadership.” The two main presenters will lead three full days of study and reflection on the topic as it applies to leadership with and among our oblate communities.
The presenters are Abbot Peter Eberle, OSB, Mt. Angel Abbey, president of the Swiss-American Benedictine Congregation and formation director at Mt. Angel Seminary, and Sister Jacquelyn Ernster, OSB, former prioress of Sacred Heart Monastery, Yankton, SD. Contact Sister Antoinette Purcell, NAABOD president, at Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Beech Grove, IN, or go to the website <www.naabod.org>.
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BENET 2007, The Fourth International Conference on Benedictine Education, will be October 31-November 3 at Colegio San Benito, a Manquehue Movement school in Santiago, Chile. The theme of the conference is “Partnership in Benedictine Education,” focusing on strong Benedictine communities both within schools and between schools. As well as the keynote speeches, there will be a variety of workshops on a number of different subjects, all directly related to Benedictine education.
The conference will feature addresses by Father Columba Stewart, OSB, of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN, who will speak on “Pedagogy in the Rule of Saint Benedict,” and by Cristóbal Valdés, oblate of the Manquehue Apostolic Movement, who will speak on “Spiritual Formation in Benedictine Schools: the Experience of Manquehue.”
BENET is a network of Benedictine educators, organized by the International Commission on Benedictine Education (ICBE), a commission of the abbot primate. Another arm of the ICBE is the International Benedictine Youth Congress, which will hold its next worldwide meeting for Benedictine students in 2008.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The American Benedictine Academy will again sponsor two sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress in Kalamazoo, MI, in May of 2008. The sessions are entitled “Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Theology and Literary Culture in Medieval Benedictine Monasteries” and “Saints and Sanctity in Medieval Benedictine Monasticism.” Anyone who would like to be considered to present a paper should contact
Hugh Feiss, OSB
541 East 100 South
Jerome, ID 83338
(208) 324-2377 ext. 202
hughf @ idahomonks.org
All sessions must be finalized
by October 1.
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