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...here at St. Anselm's were pleased with the RELIGION section [Jan. 5]. Your accurate and well informed survey of U.S. Benedictinism will be appreciated by Benedictines throughout the country. It is sometimes difficult to answer the layman's query, "What do you do in the monastery?". TIME'S balanced reply points up the present situation and indicates the course of our deepening development. We thank...
...benediction to the Rt. Rev. Alban Boultwood, O.S.B., and handed him a copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities. Then, as a choir chanted the Te Deum, Abbot Boultwood formally accepted the fealty of 37 monks from St. Anselm's Abbey, the capital's only Benedictine monastery. American-born and British-educated, Father Boultwood, 50, was chosen by the monks (in a secret ballot) last November to be their first abbot, shortly after Pope John XXIII elevated the 37-year-old community from the status of a priory...
With the Times. As far as piety permits, U.S. monks have kept well up with the times, hired the best of U.S. architects (Philip Johnson at St. Anselm's, Marcel Breuer at St. John's) to design new churches and cloisters. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Genesee near Rochester, N.Y., has its own fallout shelter and volunteer fire department. St. Vincent's runs its own radio station, probably is the only U.S. monastery to have a monk with the official title of public relations director. In the interests of modern efficiency, North Carolina...
...world spiritually wise? Because of the obvious benefits to the church as a whole, most abbots agree that it is; but they are aware of the need to keep St. Benedict's ora et labora (pray and work) in balance. "The great question in contemporary monasticism," says St. Anselm's Abbot Boultwood. "is precisely the seeking of this point of balance that unifies the contemplative and the active in monastic life. In reinforcing the element of contemplation . . . American monasticism may have a long way to travel yet, but it has the heart and vigor for the journey...
...FELIX ANSELM Madison...