In other news Abbot Gregory has called Father Joel Derks, O.S.B., home from his assignment as chaplain at St. Bernard's Hospital, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Father Joel just celebrated fifty years of profession as a monk this past fall and will now be the spiritual chaplain for the infirmary residents, as well as help in other ways here at the monastery.
The students all returned this past Sunday. I believe five students did not return, either because they graduated at the end of the first semester or decided the priesthood is not their vocation. However, we also accepted seven new students for the second semester. The students had registration on Monday and began classes this last Tuesday.
All our monks from Conception who are away at school have returned to their various schools to continue studies for the second semester. That included: Brother Pachomius, Brother Guerric, Brother Macario, Brother Anselm and Brother Victor. It was good to have them home for Christmas. The three monks from other monasteries attending school here have also returned: Brother Gabriel, from Worth Abbey in England; Brother Gerard, from Christ in the Desert Abbey in New Mexico and Brother John, from the Priory at Norcia, Italy.
This a picture of my family taken in August, 1953, just before I entered the novitiate. In the front are my parents: Joe and Alice (Gladbach) Reichert, In the back from left to right: Fr. Kenneth, Raymond (now deceased), Harold, Jim (now deceased) and my youngest brother Ed who died of cancer at age 19 in 1955. We never did get a chance to have a more formal family picture taken.
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Family photos are wonderful. Thank you for sharing. I had a blog, but closed it down for lack of time. Thanks for all your comments. The weather is warming up!!
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