On Monday, 1 November, the Feast of All Saints, Collegio Sant’Anselmo was pleased to welcome The Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Gallagher as the celebrant for our Feast. Archbishop Gallagher is the current Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and Titular Archbishop of Hodelm in Scotland.
The next day, on Tuesday, 2 November, a group of Collegio Sant’Anselmo community members visited Verano Monumental Cemetery, the famous 20-centuries-old burial site east of central Rome. Here is the resting place of those monks who died at Sant’Anselmo in the years before it was possible for them to be buried in their home countries.
Abbot Primate Gregory Polan led the prayer service along with Prior Mauritius Wilde, who read the prayers and letters of the ceremony.
Afterward, Prior Mauritius read out loud from a document researched by a former resident of the collegio, Meinrad Hötzel, of Kloster Einsiedeln in Switzerland. The document lists the names and dates of the monks in the cemetery as well as their roles at Sant’Anselmo. Most of the listings have photos. The group found the document fascinating. The link to the pdf is below.
Altre Notizie
On 27 November, Collegio Sant'Anselmo hosted a group of contemplative sisters and nuns from the Rome and surrounding Lazio region to celebrate Pro Orantibus Day, or World Day of Cloistered Life. Story and photos here.
On the evening of 15 November, the community of Collegio Sant'Anselmo was treated to a presentation by our visiting Buddhists monks, Chaiyapat Boonpan and Panuwat Lerdprasertpun, of the Mungkomkamalavas Temple, a Mahayana Buddhist Monastery in Thailand. Story, photo and links here.
Fr. Daniel McCarthy OSB, a Collegio resident and Liturgy professor at Sant'Anselmo Ateneo's Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, was interviewed by EWTN on 13 November.
