New ARCER counselors
Vice-President Fr. Lisandro Rivas Durán, President Fr. Mauritius Wilde and Secretary Fr. Armando Nugnes
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Fr. Mauritius and his predecessor Fr. Adam Sycz of the Pontifical Polish College
6 December 2021
Father Mauritius Wilde OSB, rector of Sant’Anselmo College, was elected president of the Association of Rectors of Ecclesiastical Colleges of Rome (ARCER), during the general assembly of 24 November 2021. Together with him, ten counselors were elected, including Vice-President Fr. Lisandro Rivas Durán, IMC, of the Pontifical College of San Paolo, and Secretary Fr. Armando Nugnes, of the Pontifical Urbanian College.
The ARCER is the association of rectors of seminaries, colleges, boarding schools and other male ecclesiastical institutes, both diocesan and religious, whose students attend the universities, faculties and universities of Rome. The aims of the association are to stimulate dialogue between the rectors on the life of their institutes; to act as spokesperson for the common requests of the rectors to the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia (in particular the Congregation for the Clergy), the Vicariate of Rome, ecclesiastical universities and other bodies that have a bearing on the life of the seminaries, colleges and ecclesiastical boarding schools of Rome; and possibly acting as spokesperson for the aforementioned bodies to the rectors.
The ARCER was established on 23 May 1989 after an assembly held in the Mexican Pontifical College, with the approval of the statute by the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Our best wishes go to Fr. Mauritius Wilde, rector of the Sant’Anselmo College and prior of the Badia Primaziale Sant’Anselmo.
Altre Notizie
On 14 October, Dr. Ziza Fernandes, singer, composer, professor and musical therapist with a Master in Psychology and Logotherapy, talked with Fr. Ruberval Monteiro, Sant'Anselmo artist and resident professor of Contemporary Sacred Art, in the third part of her series "Conversation between Artists : The Silence, Truth and Beauty". Story and video here.
Early in October, two newly-ordained residents celebrated their first Masses at Sant'Anselmo. Fathers Gregorio Carrizal, of Christ in the Desert, and John George, of the Abbey of Saint Gregory the Great, Downside, continued the Catholic tradition of blessing those in attendance. Photos of the Masses can be found on our Flickr account, here.
Father Elijah Owens, OSB, was elected by the monastic chapter on Thursday, 7 June 2022, as the eighth abbot of Subiaco Abbey. Abbot Elijah lived at Collegio Sant’Anselmo from 2014-2021 while he was studying at the Monastic Institute in the Faculty of Theology.
