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Seminary FootnotesFr. Samuel Russell and Br. Victor Schinstock attended the National Catholic Diocesan Vocation Directors Convention September 24-26 in Baltimore. In November, Dr. Christopher Anadale served as commentator on a paper discussing St. Augustine's conception of free will at the American Catholic Philosophical Association's annual meeting in Milwaukee. From Nov. 13-15, Fr. Dan Merz researched the microfilm of medieval lectionaries as part of his doctoral thesis. The next day he was off to a Franciscan mission in Honduras for an eight day visit, looking into it as a possible summer experience for some of Conception’s seminarians. Dec. 1-3, he celebrated the weekend Masses at Christ the King parish in Des Moines, led a workshop for all their liturgical ministers (~ 120), and gave two parish mission talks on the Liturgy. Fr. Dan also had an article published along with Fr. Michael G. Witczak in the May-August 2007 issue of Ecclesia Orans, entitled St. Gall Mass Orders (III): ms. Sangallensis 340: searching for the origins of the "Rhenish Mass Order". It's a transcribed and annotated edition of an early 11th century Order of the Mass. He went to Washington, DC from Dec. 14-22 in order to research the ICEL (International Commission for English in the Liturgy) archives of the consilium work done after Vatican II on the revision of the Lectionary—also research toward his doctoral thesis. In January Fr. Dan will be spiritual director for a TEC retreat in Jefferson City (Jan. 19-21) and is leading a teacher's retreat at Columbia Catholic School on Jan. 22. Lee Coats took four seminary students to Kansas City on November 4th to preview the Nelson Art Gallery and the Kemper Museum. It is an annual event for her Design 221 class. This fall, Fr. Patrick Caveglia and five seminarians explored the Church’s social teaching tradition in TH 327, Catholic Social Teaching. As an in-depth look at social justice as an essential element of the Church’s mission, the seminar was conducted by means of the “Three R’s” – reading, reflection and response. Reading of ecclesial documents, daily class participation and periodic written reflections were essential parts of the experience. As a common class project, the seminarians undertook direct local philanthropy. Using classical Catholic social analysis – See, judge and act – they sought to identify worthy charitable organizations within a six-county area in Northwest Missouri where monks of Conception Abbey serve as pastors. After developing criteria for giving and some visits to local charitable sites, the seminarians voted to providing funding grants to five different local charitable organizations. The donations were made possible by a generous grant from Mr. Roger Grein, who has been working to encourage college-age philanthropy for a number of years. We welcome your comments: |
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