Word: boultwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RT.REV.) ALBAN BOULTWOOD, O.S.B...
...Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his 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...
...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...
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