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Emeritus Marion Eugene Balsavich - 06/11/25-03/16/12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900948004-R9G1B39VS1VJVYC1XC25/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.33.22+PM.png Death Notices - Father Bernard Anthony Horzen - 12/18/26-12/08/11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900948021-V6KSXVWPY459K3RV0LRO/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-16%2Bat%2B3.31.43%2BPM.jpg Death Notices - Father James Michael Murray - 10/27/26-10/31/11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900948031-IB4HMMT5KL183SGBNXCX/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.34.33+PM.png Death Notices - Father Stephen John Souse - 11/07/16-07/23/10 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/other-ways-to-give daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900951464-9LEXLABHZCO5Y46RLSYH/image-asset.jpeg Other Ways to Give https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/25829725-2c14-412f-8e54-485d1f58b4d2/The%2BBenedictine%2BPromise%2BLogo.webp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900951464-9LEXLABHZCO5Y46RLSYH/image-asset.jpeg https://www.stbedeabbey.org/abbey-library daily 0.75 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900953373-7EZLSVIP8VEZP4V4J77J/Screen+Shot+2020-11-12+at+1.42.17+PM.png Abbey Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900953373-7EZLSVIP8VEZP4V4J77J/Screen+Shot+2020-11-12+at+1.42.17+PM.png https://www.stbedeabbey.org/deceased-monks daily 0.75 2024-02-12 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/child-safety daily 0.75 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900958583-F6K0GPYPATV9A5E6VFFL/Abbot+Michael+1.JPG Child Safety https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900958583-F6K0GPYPATV9A5E6VFFL/Abbot+Michael+1.JPG https://www.stbedeabbey.org/our-history daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963504-60RUE4ZKBJEGAZ04DPZ9/AerialView.jpg Our History An aerial photo of St. Bede Abbey and Academy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963509-BQONI8IKWQGTNSEK0D6F/Archabbot+Andrew+Hintenach.png Our History Archabbot Andrew Hintenach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963512-UI1Y3GX0NUFFP1QRX8W5/Fr.-Albert-Robrecht.jpg Our History Fr. Albert Robrecht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963544-ZBOGZ2U8YNTGHQG6GV0P/Fr.+Vincent+Huber.png Our History Fr. Vincent Huber as a young theology professor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963547-S46CYVY3TPQ2JCEDMXFI/WencelMass+copy.jpg Our History Fr. Wenceslaus Sholar celebrating Mass at the time of the Cherry mine disaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963551-FEOI2R4Z2NFKBYBT7FCQ/Abbot+Vincent+Huber.png Our History Abbot Vincent Huber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963555-EKQMCM1VWR40L3GCV58G/Abbot+Justus+Wirth.png Our History Abbot Justus Wirth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963558-YTX80UEG81MSZZ5MQGM7/Abbot+Lawrence+Vohs.png Our History Abbot Lawrence Vohs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963562-6LD29XTGDFMY03212EDR/Abbot+David+Duncan.png Our History Abbot David Duncan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963564-72POYWI15UXG9H5O0QD9/St.+Bede+Abbey+Church.png Our History An exterior view of the St. Bede Abbey Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963567-BFQ0Q6NNHUV5KBK4230K/Abbot+Marion+Balsavich.png Our History Abbot Marion Balsavich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963571-X061W160LASGCSO1T64Y/Abbot+emeritus+Roger+Corpus.jpeg Our History Abbot Roger Corpus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963574-KMYZCB6IL2U6ZD09JY4R/Abbot+Claude+Peifer.png Our History Abbot Claude Peifer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963582-W5RMDGF4CWUXUEWKKCM8/AbbottPhilip.jpg Our History Abbot Philip Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963504-60RUE4ZKBJEGAZ04DPZ9/AerialView.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963509-BQONI8IKWQGTNSEK0D6F/Archabbot+Andrew+Hintenach.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963512-UI1Y3GX0NUFFP1QRX8W5/Fr.-Albert-Robrecht.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963523-IQ1Q0UEV8ASV4CY2CS1A/Fr.+Stephen+Lyons.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963531-15YZWDCFVZPNIB9Z1C60/Fr.-Emmeran-Singer1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963544-ZBOGZ2U8YNTGHQG6GV0P/Fr.+Vincent+Huber.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963547-S46CYVY3TPQ2JCEDMXFI/WencelMass+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963551-FEOI2R4Z2NFKBYBT7FCQ/Abbot+Vincent+Huber.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963555-EKQMCM1VWR40L3GCV58G/Abbot+Justus+Wirth.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963558-YTX80UEG81MSZZ5MQGM7/Abbot+Lawrence+Vohs.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963562-6LD29XTGDFMY03212EDR/Abbot+David+Duncan.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963564-72POYWI15UXG9H5O0QD9/St.+Bede+Abbey+Church.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963567-BFQ0Q6NNHUV5KBK4230K/Abbot+Marion+Balsavich.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963571-X061W160LASGCSO1T64Y/Abbot+emeritus+Roger+Corpus.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963574-KMYZCB6IL2U6ZD09JY4R/Abbot+Claude+Peifer.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900963582-W5RMDGF4CWUXUEWKKCM8/AbbottPhilip.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/49e92070-ea68-45a4-9ab9-c8848f0f59cc/abbotmichaelbkg.jpg https://www.stbedeabbey.org/father-matthew-mazzuchelli daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900967467-DFVKOBA3ELTAO46NLS3P/image-asset.png Father Matthew Mazzuchelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900967467-DFVKOBA3ELTAO46NLS3P/image-asset.png Father Matthew Mazzuchelli https://www.stbedeabbey.org/mass-stipends daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900971078-NJP604FW32W2USNJJ3UO/Poor+Souls+FB+%282%29.jpg Mass Stipends Photo taken by Fr. Dominic Garramone, OSB at Most Holy Trinity, St. Louis, MO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900971078-NJP604FW32W2USNJJ3UO/Poor+Souls+FB+%282%29.jpg https://www.stbedeabbey.org/oblate-meetings daily 0.75 2024-11-22 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/father-joseph-james-heyd daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901019668-59JSD6DVC8EULFUOCBJ7/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.23.12+PM.png Father Joseph James Heyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901019668-59JSD6DVC8EULFUOCBJ7/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.23.12+PM.png Father Joseph James Heyd https://www.stbedeabbey.org/pandemic-prayer-intentions daily 0.75 2024-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901021314-P4UL6BDUGOIGVYFHPDEI/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic Prayer Intentions 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https://www.stbedeabbey.org/monastic-vocation daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901026133-BAIB1Q9PT02QL1JOCU33/St-Ben-rondelle-4-x-6-1024x681.jpg What is a Monastic Vocation? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901026133-BAIB1Q9PT02QL1JOCU33/St-Ben-rondelle-4-x-6-1024x681.jpg https://www.stbedeabbey.org/father-ambrose-hessling daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901027671-T270HDI5MD4VJ5YYBGEO/image-asset.png Father Ambrose Hessling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901027671-T270HDI5MD4VJ5YYBGEO/image-asset.png Father Ambrose Hessling https://www.stbedeabbey.org/donate daily 0.75 2025-03-07 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/prayer daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/abbot-emeritus-claude-peifer daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901032221-EIN9V41XJ894ZH655MT2/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.23.12+PM.png Abbot Emeritus Claude Peifer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901032221-EIN9V41XJ894ZH655MT2/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.23.12+PM.png Abbot Emeritus Claude Peifer https://www.stbedeabbey.org/home daily 1.0 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901035455-Q0M57FBZRKONEMP2HI38/100_0637.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/a1a2d819-9921-4d16-8cf7-693764ba0bba/ExteriorAbbotMichael.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/076a37ed-969b-4ae7-a131-f688634b1369/AbbotMichaelHeadshot_2024_web02.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/366f276f-e6d6-4676-9542-2394e7001800/FrPatrickHeadshot_2024_web02.jpg 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901035485-Q35Z8NIJ427FHEPVZEHB/Abbey.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901035444-VP9GFZSQG9THZ8VAHJZK/School+fountain+offset+best.JPG https://www.stbedeabbey.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/fc3d4a20-94f9-4b4a-b9a2-a5fe1bb2159d/AbbotMichaelHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Abbot Michael Calhoun mcalhoun@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0702 Ext. 237 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/d505a0a5-68dc-4575-9f61-4c93be9af7f3/FrPhilHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Abbot Emeritus Philip Davey frphilip@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0341 Ext. 298 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/3bb9777a-b817-485f-95dd-a5cd5c3ae4ca/FrDominicHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Subprior Dominic Garramone frdom@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0708 Ext. 246 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/5a8b88cc-55d6-401b-a564-4cb93e109cdf/FrRonaldHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Father Ronald Margherio ronaldmargherio@hotmail.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0286 Ext. 238 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901050954-H2Y5A3PBZV4FNQDA5R4B/Brother+Nathaniel+Grossmann.png Contact Us - Brother Nathaniel Grossmann bronat@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0709 Ext. 233 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/7db3e4fd-f4ec-4d80-8c19-e6687ca50243/FrPatrickHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Father Patrick Fennell frpatrick@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0705 Ext. 207 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1eeabef2-c5e1-4744-8e03-cf75299f3f79/BrLukeHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Brother Luke McLachlan brluke@st-bede.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0280 Ext. 245 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/0da3ab72-6a17-4468-9d18-5433993a6eaa/FrGregoryHeadshot_2024.jpg Contact Us - Father Gregory Jarzombek gregoryjarzombek@yahoo.com Direct Dial: 815-250-0277 Ext. 235 https://www.stbedeabbey.org/father-henry-fritz daily 0.75 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901041034-9YES8EATGRLGX3URFL95/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.26.21+PM.png Father Henry Fritz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901041034-9YES8EATGRLGX3URFL95/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.26.21+PM.png Father Henry Fritz https://www.stbedeabbey.org/what-is-an-oblate daily 0.75 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702901042615-WGHTAPI3WZD4VXHUQ9GU/image-asset.jpeg What is an Oblate? 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George shortly after his death. Click here to read the article.] Brother George Matsuoka, O.S.B., monk of Saint Bede Abbey in Peru, IL, died the morning of April 12, 2020, Easter Sunday at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Lacon. He was 98. He was born in Chicago on August 27, 1921 to George and Emma (Laudstrom) Matsuoka. A week or two after his birth George’s mother died. After his mother’s death his father found it difficult to care for him and when George was three, he took him to Angel Guardian Orphanage on the north side of Chicago. He lived there and, while there, attended grammar and high school. After his sophomore year, in 1937, he attended vocational school, in the evenings, for horticulture. During the day he worked for a florist. In 1941, he took a leave of absence to visit monasteries to pursue a possible religious vocation. The first was St. Meinrad in Indiana. He ran into problems with the government, because it was wartime and he was of Japanese descent. The FBI showed up and told him he had a month to get back to Illinois or would be sent to an internment camp in California. It was then he chose to visit St. Bede. In 1943 he was a novice and professed his vows on May 17, 1944. Shortly after his arrival at the abbey, he was assigned to work in the bakery. He wasn’t there long before being assigned to the print shop where he spent many years. Even though he didn’t work in the bakery long, cookie baking was not something he forgot. In later life he would put packages of cookies in students’ lockers and would bring them to customers when he delivered print shop orders to local customers. For most of his time at St. Bede, Br. George was known to the students in our academy, but it was after his retirement from the print shop that he began the tradition of greeting the students with a smile and a handshake at the beginning and end of each school day. Some used to joke that he shook more hands than the president. He truly was the Spirit of St. Bede and a very visible sign to all of Benedictine hospitality in receiving all as Christ. Br. George celebrated his 75th anniversary of profession in 2019. Unfortunately, in the spring of that same year, it became necessary for him to enter St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Lacon, as his mounting mental and physical limitations made it impossible for us to offer adequate health care and socialization. He thrived in his new environment, participated in many of the activities, and was a delight to staff and residents alike. He died peacefully on April 12, Easter Sunday, awaking to eternal life on the morning of the Lord’s resurrection. Reception of his body at the St. Bede Abbey Church was on Tuesday, April 14. A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated on Wednesday, April 15th with Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. presiding, with interment in the abbey cemetery. Because of the social distancing in place because of the Coronavirus pandemic, services were private. A public memorial mass will be celebrated at a date to be announced. We are grateful for the suffrages you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954882-U31CUZ8GNGJMP4A0TRHE/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.04.09+PM.png Death Notices - Father Matthew Mazzuchelli (Copy) Father Matthew Mazzuchelli Born: LaSalle, Illinois, December 3, 1931 Professed: July 11, 1952 Ordained: June 1, 1958 Died: January 24, 2017 Fr. Matthew (Charles) Mazzuchelli OSB passed away in his room at the abbey, sometime in the early hours of Tuesday, January 24, 2017. He was 85. He was born in LaSalle, Illinois, on December 3, 1931, to Charles and Mazie (O’Donnell) Mazzuchelli, and in baptism was given the name Charles. He attended St. Patrick’s Grade School and St. Bede Academy, graduating in 1949. After two years in the junior college, he entered the novitiate at St. Bede, taking the name Matthew, and was professed on July 11, 1952. After receiving a BA from St. John’s University, he studied theology there and was ordained a priest June 1, 1958 in the Peoria Cathedral by Bishop Cousins. He taught mathematics and typing for a few years in the academy, but in 1961 was put in charge of maintenance and housekeeping for both abbey and academy, positions he held for decades. His conscientious nature and competence made him well suited for the many demands of caring for such a large plant. Although he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis shortly after his ordination and had difficulty walking in later years, Fr. Matthew remained as active as he could throughout his life. At the monastery, he always seemed happiest in his basement shop working on various carpentry projects—he sometimes referred to himself as “Muddlin’ Matt”—but his greatest joy was his longstanding weekend mission to St. Lawrence Church in South Wilmington which he began shortly after his ordination and continued until a few years before his death. He became a beloved figure in the parish and at Sacred Heart in nearby Kinsman. His continued contact with parishioners was of great comfort to him when his failing eyesight and difficulty in walking forced him to retire from the active ministry in 2014. Slender to the point of gauntness, Fr. Matthew did not have much of an appetite except for certain favorite foods such as soup and spaghetti, and if supper didn’t appeal to him he would make himself a bag of microwave popcorn to take back to his room. He rarely drank any beverage but coffee in addition to his single can of beer at haustus and cookouts. He had an abiding love for children’s books, which would often provide insights for his homilies. In spite of his limited mobility and the habitual tardiness it caused, Fr. Matthew was devoted to conventual Mass and Divine Office even when it required genuinely heroic efforts for him to attend. Among the documents in his personal file was a typed paragraph dated November 23, 1985, which included the following request from our confrere: “Just for the record: at the time of my death, it would please me very much if people were asked to make a small donation for the starving people of the world, especially children, instead of the usual Mass offerings.” Fr. Matthew was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by a brother, Michael Mazzuchelli of LaSalle. Abbot Philip will celebrate a funeral Mass on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 10:00 AM with interment in the abbey cemetery to follow. Abbot Philip and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954888-O4T92GETUGNHYRE17UCP/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.09.35+PM.png Death Notices - Father Gabriel Bullock (Copy) Father Gabriel Bullock Born: Peoria, Illinois, March 25, 1934 Professed: July 11, 1955 Ordained: May 28, 1961 Died: June 10, 2016 Reverend Gabriel (Gary) Bullock, O.S.B. monk and priest of St. Bede Abbey in Peru, IL, died Friday afternoon, at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home, Lacon, after an extended illness. He was born March 25, 1934, the son of Roy E. and Jane Morris Bullock, in Peoria, Illinois. He attended St. Patrick’s Elementary School and was a graduate of Spalding Institute where he was salutatorian of his class. After two years at the junior college at Saint Bede, he entered the monastery novitiate in 1954. He took his solemn vows on July 11, 1955, and was ordained a priest May 28, 1961. He received a B.A. in philosophy from St. John’s University and a master’s degree in English from the University of Notre Dame. Fr. Gabriel served on the faculty of Saint Bede Academy as an English and religion teacher and a prefect in the boarding department, and later as moderator of the school newspaper and the yearbook. He performed weekend pastoral ministry to many parishes in the Illinois Valley and was active in the Illinois Valley Clergy Council. He was in demand as a retreat director, and served as confessor to the Academy students and to adults in spiritual direction. Fr. Gabriel had the soul of an artist, which expressed itself in ways great and small, from his distinctive handwriting to his catering elaborate gourmet meals as an auction item for the academy. He designed and built sets for several plays, including Fr. Placid Hatfield’s productions of Macbeth and Othello. His marathon sessions (well-fueled by Hershey bars) for establishing the layout for the school yearbook were legendary, as was his love for the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with many other great works of literature. Although often meticulous in his work, Fr. Gabriel was not given to organization or neatness, and successive superiors despaired of getting him to clean up his various storerooms throughout the abbey and the academy. His habit of falling asleep in a chair resulted in a curvature of the neck and spine, which contributed to his gradual decline in health, exacerbated by poor circulation in his legs. He received visitors regularly at the abbey and later in the nursing home, many of them grateful former students and colleagues, as well as many religious and laypeople whom he had counseled and befriended over six decades of educational and priestly ministry. He is preceded in death by his parents and his sister Sharon Haney. He is survived by his siblings: Dave (Carol) Bullock of East Peoria; Sue (Joe) Thierer of Peoria; Mary Beth (Fred) Roedl of Bloomington, IN; Paul (Marti) Bullock of Dunlap; Dan (Laura Merrill) Bullock of West Newton, MA; Theresa (Pat) Chambers of Peoria; and 20 nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 15 at the abbey church, with interment in the abbey cemetery. Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954894-SDL38NJFKE1N2DT3GXZ1/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.11.34+PM.png Death Notices - Father Ambrose Hessling (Copy) Father Ambrose Hessling Born: Peoria, Illinois, January 2, 1931 Professed: July 11, 1951 Ordained: June 2, 1957 Died: December 31, 2016 Just as the tower bells were calling the community to the vigil of the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, Fr. Ambrose was called to his eternal home, dying in the abbey infirmary and accompanied by the presence and prayers of Abbot Philip. He was born January 2, 1931, the son of Edmund and Clara Hessling, in Peoria, Illinois, and was baptized under the patronage of St. Bernard. He attended St. Joseph’s School in Peoria, graduating in 1944. He had an uncle who was a priest who suggested that he go to the Josephenum in Columbus, Ohio. Bernard did not like being so far from home and after a single semester concluded he was not destined for the priesthood. He then returned home and entered Spalding Institute. After graduation he was approached by our Fr. Fabian who was on the Spalding faculty at that time, and he suggested the young man attend St. Bede Junior College. Bernard joined nine of his Spalding classmates in the seminary department on the fourth floor. Rediscovering a vocation to the priesthood and eventually the monastic life, he entered the abbey novitiate in 1950, taking the name Ambrose, and professed his first vows on July 11, 1951. After studying theology at Saint Bede College and St. John’s University, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1957, at which time he was put in charge of the abbey’s print shop for a period of nine years. For many years Fr. Ambrose was active in ministering to divorced and widowed Catholics through the Benedictine Religious Education Center. He served several terms on the abbey’s senior council, and regularly played the organ for abbey church services until shortly before his death. In 1995, Fr. Ambrose undertook the Recyclage program at Sant’Anselmo, or as he put it, “went to Rome to have my theology recycled.” He returned with a wealth of stories with which he entertained the community at haustus, and with spiritual insights to share in his homilies. For many years he also enjoyed attending the summer scripture workshops at Loyola. From 1966 until 2010 Fr. Ambrose was in charge of the abbey powerhouse and grounds crew. It was in this capacity that he made his most lasting and memorable contributions to the community. Easy going and genial by nature, he proved nearly unflappable in the face of mechanical crises, repairing everything from broken water mains to temperamental tractor engines and fractious radiators. He kept all of the abbey and academy vehicles in good working order and directed the efforts to maintain the grounds, often spending hours on a mower or behind the wheel of a snowplow. He continued to serve on weekend mission assignments, and was even known to hear the confessions of fellow mechanics as they repaired a vehicle, one leaning over the motor above and the other on the mechanic’s trolley below, with the engine block serving as the confessional screen. Even as his involvement with maintenance gradually lessened, he continued to serve as a valuable advisor to the maintenance staff and remained in his living quarters on the upper level of the powerhouse, accompanied by a succession of beloved cats. In his later years, Fr. Ambrose suffered from hearing loss, and macular degeneration made it more difficult for him to see, but he gamely filled in as organist whenever he could, even after he began to lose feeling in his hands and feet. He made use of a walker and eventually an electric wheelchair. His kidneys gradually failed, and after a month-long hospital stay and a short time in a nursing home, he returned to the abbey infirmary for his final days. His beloved family visited en masse, much to his delight and comfort, and he died peacefully on December 31, just two days shy of his 86th birthday. He was preceded in death by his parents and two nieces, Regina and Kristin. He is survived by one sister, Suzanne (Mike) Fleissner of Madisonville TN, and three nieces: Denise Barto of Reston, VA; Yvonne (Tim) Sippy of Cedar Rapids, IA; and Janine (Steve) Terrell of Peoria, IL. We are grateful for the suffrages you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954870-J36U0QPLN80PA9HR8Q2Z/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.13.57+PM.png Death Notices - Abbot Emeritus Roger Corpus (Copy) Abbot Emeritus Roger Corpus Born: Peru, Illinois, July 14, 1930 Professed: July 11, 1951 Ordained: June 2, 1957 Elected as Abbot: June 8, 1990 Re-Elected as Abbot: March 2, 1998 Resigned: June 1, 2003 Died: May 24, 2015 Right Reverend Roger (Francis) Corpus, priest and retired abbot of Saint Bede Abbey, was found dead in his room at the abbey Sunday morning, May 24, having died peacefully in his sleep. He was 84. Abbot Roger was born in Peru Illinois on July 14, 1930, to Francis and Honorine Corpus, and was named Francis after his father. He had one sister, Charlene, and he remained very close with her and her family throughout his life. He attended grade school at St. Joseph’s parish school, followed by high school and junior college at Saint Bede. He entered the monastic community in 1950 and professed vows on July 11, 1951, taking the name Roger. Two years later, he earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., and then returned to St. Bede for four years of theology studies. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William Cousins on June 2, 1957. From 1957 to 1990 he taught English, photography and film making at St. Bede Academy and earned a master’s degree in communication arts from the University of Notre Dame during summer sessions. As a teacher he was known as being patient and gentle, but also demanding. Former students often spoke of his influence in helping them “see with a photographer’s eye” and to view films as more than mere entertainment. In addition to teaching, Father Roger also served the Academy for periods as infirmarian, prefect of the boarding school, and moderator of the Mothers’ Club. In 1981 he was made prior of St. Bede Abbey, serving from 1981 to 1985. In 1986 he took part in a month-long monastic renewal program at Collegio Sant’Anselmo in Rome, and was then re-assigned as prior from 1987 to 1990. On June 8, 1990, he was elected the sixth abbot of St. Bede, and was re-elected in 1998. During his tenure, development efforts for abbey and academy were integrated and revitalized. When he resigned as abbot in 2003, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky appointed him administrator of St. Mary’s Parish in El Paso, and he was named pastor two years later. Despite having very limited experience in pastoral administration, he was successful in creating a strong parish community. Parishioners were especially grateful for his ministry to the sick and for his comfort and compassion during times of struggle or tragedy. He served at St. Mary’s until his retirement to Saint Bede in 2014, but kept in regular contact with many of his former parishioners. Abbot Roger exemplified St. Benedict’s injunction that the abbot must instruct his disciples more by deeds than by words, not only in his dedication to his religious duties but in his willingness to engage in manual labor. Even as abbot he could be seen at work in housekeeping and painting projects. After his resignation as abbot he served as a wise and humble counselor to Abbots Claude and Philip, and took an active part in community life while serving in the parish and in his retirement. He continued to be interested in contemporary films, and was an enthusiastic participant in abbey movie nights and the discussions at lunch and recreation that followed. As he aged Abbot Roger suffered from significant joint pains, digestive problems and heart ailments which he bore with his customary patience and quiet dignity. Abbot Roger was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his sister Charlene (Roland) Bekeleski, and by his monastic brethren. His body will be received at the St. Bede Abbey Church on May 26 at 4:00 p.m., and visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. with a prayer vigil at 5:15 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the church by Rt. Rev. Philip Davey, OSB, with interment in the abbey cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954877-BKM0W9YWQ1LICDRP8RH7/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.20.21+PM.png Death Notices - Brother Anthony Shaughnessy (Copy) Brother Anthony Shaughnessy Born: Birmingham, Michigan, March 6, 1931 Professed: February 9, 2001 Died: July 11, 2015 In the late afternoon of the feast of St. Benedict, Br. Anthony (Patrick) Shaughnessy, OSB, died peacefully at St. Joseph Nursing Home in Lacon, Illinois. He was 84. The youngest of six children, Br. Anthony was born on March 6, 1931 in Birmingham, Michigan to William C. and Agnes Shaughnessy and was baptized under the patronage of St. Patrick. He attended Saint Mary’s High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, where he played center and nose guard for the football team. It was there that he met his future wife, Margaret Anne Gignac who was a cheerleader. They were married in 1952. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Detroit. He had a full career in management and quality control operations with several large engineering firms, working in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Kansas before moving in Davenport, Iowa where he retired. He was married for 45 years and had 10 children. His wife passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1997. Though he always had a full-time job, Patrick was very active in religious studies and served in many lay capacities in his home parishes. After the death of his wife, Patrick first learned about the Benedictine way of life during a retreat, and continued his spiritual development under the guidance of Sr. Audrey Cleary, OSB of St. Mary’s Monastery, Rock Island. After much consideration and prayer, he sought the blessing of his children as he began the transition into monastic life, taking the name Anthony. He professed first vows on February 9, 2001. His children were present as he took his final vows on July 11, 2004. His family visited Saint Bede often and enjoyed coming to know their patriarch in his new role as a Benedictine monk. Br. Anthony worked diligently at whatever task he was assigned, whether in the apple orchard, where he served for a time as operations manager, as assistant sacristan, supplies manager, or as director of abbey housekeeping, a job at which he especially excelled. He designed and built custom magazine racks for the reading room, supervised the installation of many new windows in the monastery building, and did a thorough energy study which resulted in a significant reduction in costs. Upon the death of Fr. Sebastian in 2006, he served for a time as prior and junior master. As his health would permit, Br. Anthony continued working on various maintenance projects until July of 2014, when injuries sustained from a fall required time in a rehab center. Other injuries as well as complications arising from congestive heart failure necessitated his moving to St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Lacon, Illinois in January of 2015. His children and various community members were frequent visitors, which he appreciated and cherished. He especially enjoyed being taken into town for coffee and a piece of pie at his favorite cafe, in spite of having increasing difficulty in swallowing. He bore with his suffering with the assistance of staff member Sr. Michael, with whom he developed a deep spiritual bond. Br. Anthony took great delight in researching and chronicling the genealogy of both sides of the family, a task which he continued even as his health began to fail. He left his children several volumes of family history, as well as collections of his own spiritual reflections. He even prepared one such collection in which he commented on the prayers and readings which he had selected for his funeral. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters, and his son-in-law Rick Kunz. He is survived by his children Jan Kunz, Maureen (Michael) Wallace, Sandy (Dennis) Pajewski, Kathy (David) Griffin, Kevin (Debra) Shaughnessy, Marie (Todd) Harrington, Paul (Molly)Shaughnessy, Karen (Jeff) Garrison, Dan (Sara) Shaughnessy, and Amy (Brian) Fontenot. He had thirty-one grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954839-UBH0Y04IUBO1UAPHH6G6/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.23.12+PM.png Death Notices - Father Arthur Schmit (Copy) Father Arthur Schmit Born: Port Washington, Wisconsin, September 23, 1930 Professed: July 11, 1951 Ordained: June 2, 1957 Died: March 8, 2014 We request prayers for our deceased confrere, Father Arthur Schmit, who died Saturday morning, March 8, 2014 in St. Joseph Nursing Home, Lacon, IL, where he had been a patient since January 10, when his congestive heart failure and complications therefrom began to require hospice care. Father Arthur was born in Port Washington, WI on September 23, 1930, but during his early childhood the family moved to Peoria, IL, where he grew up together with a younger brother and two sisters. His mother, Gertrude Dunst Schmit, had come from Danzig on the Baltic Sea, now Gdansk in Poland, but at that time a German city, whereas his father, Gustave Schmit, had immigrated to the United States from Luxemburg. His early education was at the hands of the Benedictine sisters, then from Nauvoo, who staffed the grade school of St. Boniface Parish in Peoria (now St. Ann’s), and he attended high school at Spalding Institute, then staffed by monks from St. Bede, from which he graduated in 1948. He then came to the junior college seminary at St. Bede, earned the associate degree two years later, and was then accepted for admission to St. Bede Abbey, together with eight other candidates, the largest class our community has ever had and the first to make their novitiate in their home abbey.. During the following year he made his novitiate at St. Bede and at its conclusion made simple profession of vows on July 11, 1951. He then spent two years at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN in order to complete his college studies, and received a BA degree in philosophy in 1953. For the next four years he studied theology in preparation for the priesthood at the St. Bede School of Theology, and during this time also gained some teaching experience in our academy. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William Cousins in the Peoria cathedral on June 2, 1957. After some further teaching in our academy and serving as prefect of boarding students in our minor seminary, Father Arthur was assigned to graduate studies, first in modern languages at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and then in educational administration at the Catholic University of America, obtaining a master’s degree in each of these areas. He then returned to the abbey and served as chief executive officer (then still called rector) of St. Bede Junior College and Academy from 1963 to 1970. Though he no longer worked in school administration after this time, he continued to teach modern languages for more than fifty years. During this time he was the sole teacher of French to successive generations of students, and he also taught German when needed in this capacity. To maintain his language skills he did further study at the Universities of Dijon, Salzburg, and Strasbourg during the summers of 1971, 1972, and 1980, respectively. Although confined to a wheel chair for the last decade of his life because of some physical injuries, he finally retired from teaching only in 2011. He also served the academy as moderator of the student government from its inception in the 1960’s until 2007, in which capacity he organized many student trips to participate in conventions, to help the poor in Appalachia, and to enjoy skiing in Wisconsin, and numerous educational excursions to Europe for both students and adults. He also had a long history as perennial moderator of the men’s club of the academy, a position that he continued to fill up until his admission to the nursing home in January. Father Arthur had also become knowledgeable about beekeeping and served as the decades-long director of our apiary, annually providing honey for the monastic community and some for sale, although he eventually needed help with the physical labor. For many years, until his mobility was impaired, he also provided priestly service at the abbey and weekend assistance in parishes. He had served in the1970’s on the Peoria diocesan board of conciliation and arbitration. In addition to the monastic community of St. Bede, Father Arthur is survived by his sister, Mrs. Rosalie Cavanaugh of Monmouth, IL and her husband James. His brother Jerome and his sister Elizabeth Perrine preceded him in death. We are grateful for the suffrages that you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954844-HIUDGFTPQEOPZ8JAH39Q/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.25.05+PM.png Death Notices - Abbot Emeritus Claude Peifer (Copy) Abbot Emeritus Claude Peifer BORN: LINCOLN, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927 PROFESSED: JULY 11, 1947 ORDAINED: MAY 22, 1952 ELECTED AS ABBOT: JUNE 3, 2003 RESIGNED: JUNE 6, 2011 DIED: MAY 1, 2014 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Claude (John) Peifer, monk, priest, and abbot emeritus of St. Bede Abbey in Peru, IL, who died Thursday morning, May 1, 2014, of apparent heart failure at the abbey. He was born September 20, 1927, the son of John and Armella Peifer of Lincoln, IL, where he attended St. Mary’s School. He then was a boarding student at St. Bede Academy and College, entering the abbey 1946 and taking his first vows July 11, 1947. Meticulous and disciplined by nature, with an excellent memory, he was naturally drawn to academia. After completing his undergraduate studies at St. John’s Collegeville, MN, he studied theology at St. Bede, was ordained May 22, 1952, then traveled to Rome where he received an S.T.L. from Collegio di Sant’Anselmo in 1954 and an S.S.L. from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1956. He did additional studies at L’École Biblique in Jerusalem. Fr. Claude taught scripture and theology in the abbey’s academy, college and seminary, from 1957 to 1969. From 1972 to 1994 he was CFO and treasurer for both abbey and academy, serving as acquisitions librarian during roughly the same period and returning to this latter work after his retirement. From 1968 onward he held a variety of positions in monastic formation, and his example of love both for sacred scripture and for the Rule had a profound influence on the novices and juniors under his care. In addition to his time at his studies and in various teaching assignments, Fr. Claude spent other extended periods away from Saint Bede. The first began in September of 1969, when he was made prior of the experimental community at Holy Mother of God Monastery in Henderson, North Carolina, a small foundation near Oxford, as part of the monastic renewal movement after Vatican II. Sadly, the foundation did not flourish, and Fr. Claude returned to St. Bede in August of 1970. Years later he spent nearly 18 months as chaplain to the sisters at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, returning to Saint Bede in October of 1997. In 2003 he was elected seventh abbot of Saint Bede, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. His tenure as abbot saw the reinstatement of morning chapter and a greater emphasis on lectio divina, both of which continue to have a positive effect on the community. Fr. Claude was very active in the American Cassinese Congregation of the Benedictine order, attending and speaking at numerous General Chapters and serving on the Abbot President‘s Council from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 to 2010. He was in great demand to give retreats, lectures and workshops at monasteries and convents throughout the order. Fr. Claude was an internationally recognized scholar in scripture, having served on the editorial board for the New American Bible and as an associate editor and contributor to The Bible Today. He also wrote a popular commentary on First and Second Corinthians, as well as numerous articles for The New Catholic Encyclopedia, The Catholic Youth Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Fr. Claude’s literary influence in monastic circles was also widespread, having contributed regularly to The American Benedictine Review, and his book Monastic Spirituality is a standard text for monks in formation. An excellent Latinist, he served on the editorial board for the 1981 translation of The Rule of Saint Benedict, and wrote one of the appendices for the edition. Rarely in good health, Fr. Claude had a history of heart disease and suffered several heart attacks, two of which required multiple bypasses. He followed his doctor’s regime for diet and exercise with his customary self-discipline, and for many years could be seen riding his bicycle around the property every afternoon. He suffered a serious heart attack at the General Chapter in June of 2013, which required a lengthy but largely successful period of recuperation. Nonetheless, his death came as a shock, when on the morning of May 1, 2014, he sat down in choir just before morning prayer, slumped over in his stall and expired within a few minutes. He died as he had lived: his mind composed for prayer, strengthened by the sacraments, and surrounded by the community which he loved so much. Abbot Hugh Anderson, the abbot president of the American Cassinese Congregation, remarked: “The work he did for the congregation and the order is immeasurable. Abbot Claude served the Congregation for many, many years as author, consultant, visitator, advisor, historian, formator, friend and confrere to all. When Abbot Claude spoke everyone listened because we all knew the wisdom he possessed; he will be terribly missed.” In addition to his monastic community of Saint Bede, Fr. Claude is survived by a sister, Rose Mary Meyers of Mercer Island, WA. We are grateful for the suffrages you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954851-CC1YM24HRBDTRPBORTU1/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.26.21+PM.png Death Notices - Father Henry Fritz (Copy) Father Henry Fritz BORN: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 3, 1925 PROFESSED: JULY 11, 1946 ORDAINED: MAY 22, 1952 DIED: JULY 6, 2014 Reverend Henry Fritz, O.S.B. monk and priest of St. Bede Abbey in Peru, IL, died Sunday morning, July 6, 2014, at St. Margaret’s Hospital, Spring Valley, several days after suffering a severe stroke. Henry Harold Fritz was born April 3, 1925, the son of Henry E. and Marie (Nilles) Fritz, in Chicago, Illinois. The family moved to Pontiac in 1926, where Henry entered St. Mary’s Grade School and worked a variety of farm jobs. After attending high school and college at Saint Bede, where he was very much involved in religious activities and athletics, he entered the novitiate at St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville MN in 1945. He received a BA from St. John’s University and a master’s in economics from Notre Dame, with additional studies in guidance and counseling during summer session at Loyola University, Chicago. He made is first profession of vows on July 11, 1946, took his solemn vows on July 11, 1949, and was ordained a priest May 22, 1952. In addition to the usual duties as prefect in the boarding department, Fr. Henry taught history, political science and economics at Saint Bede Academy from 1952 until 1977, when he was appointed principal. He also served as guidance counselor, yearbook moderator and softball coach, and even did a stint as band director. He was often in demand as an umpire or referee at sporting events. An able if sometimes irascible administrator, Fr. Henry is credited with instituting the annual dinner auction in support of the Academy. In 1985 he began a series of parish assignments throughout the Peoria diocese, including assistant, St. Mary, Pontiac, 1985; pastor, St. Peter, Peoria, 1986; St. Francis, Kewanee, and St. John, Cambridge, 1987 and again in 2010-2012; associate, St. Joseph, Peru, 1994; pastor, St. Joseph, Peru, and administrator, St. Mary, Peru, 2001; and pastor, St. Benedict, Ladd, 2005. In his parochial work, Fr. Henry was often called upon to make difficult decisions which were both unpopular and utterly necessary. His wisdom and persistence were always rewarded with the eventual gratitude and genuine affection of the parishioners. He retired to the abbey in 2012. In his final years at the abbey, Fr. Henry suffered greatly from arthritis, which he bore with his characteristic stoicism. His crusty exterior masked a compassionate heart, demonstrated by his regular visits to confreres at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home. He greatly missed his parish ministry and maintained an avid interest in diocesan affairs, keeping in regular contact with clergy and former parishioners from all over the region. He is preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Mary Lenore Braddy. He is survived by two sisters, Dolores Coughlin, of Chicago and Marilyn Weber of Pontiac, and by his monastic brethren. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on July 9 at 4 p.m. in the Saint Bede Abbey Church. The Right Reverend Philip Davey, abbot of Saint Bede, was celebrant and homilist. We are grateful for the suffrages you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, O.S.B. and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954816-5A9BCYJ6SU6LVI5QS5XH/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.27.26+PM.png Death Notices - Father Joseph James Heyd (Copy) Father Joseph James Heyd BORN: PEORIA, ILLINOIS, MAY 1, 1930 PROFESSED: JULY 11, 1951 ORDAINED: SEPTEMBER 22, 1956 DIED: APRIL 4, 2013 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Father Joseph James Heyd, who died Thursday morning, April 4, 2013 in St. Joseph Nursing Home, Lacon, IL, where he had been a patient since last August, suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Father Joseph was born in Peoria, IL, on May 1, 1930, the eldest of two sons and three daughters of Wilbert and Alice Martin Heyd, and baptized as James Wilbert. Four of his mother’s brothers had become priests, and two of them, Fathers Boniface and Patrick Martin, were also monks of our community. One of her sisters had likewise become a Holy Cross nun, and one of Fr. Joseph’s sisters was to enter the Dominican community at Sinsinawa, WI. He was a bright student and, after eight years under the Dominican sisters at St. Bernard’s parochial school, he attended Spalding Institute, the Peoria Catholic high school for boys that was staffed by our monks from 1933 until 1950. He then came to St. Bede in 1948 for the two years of junior college that we then offered, upon completion of which he applied for entry into the monastic community in 1950. After novitiate and simple profession in July of 1951, he completed his college studies at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN, followed by three years in our own school of theology, together with some teaching experience in our Academy. After ordination to the priesthood on September 22, 1956, he then spent an additional two years in theological study at the Collegio di Sant’ Anselmo in Rome, where he received the STL degree in 1958. Father Joseph’s principal interest and talent, however, were in the field of art, which he had already begun to study under Frank Kacmarcic at St. John’s University. In the following years he gradually developed his techniques, first in calligraphy and painting and then in sculpture, working both in metal and in stone, with the assistance of instructors at several different institutions for varying periods of time. These included the Art Institute of Chicago (1958 and 1961-62), the University of Notre Dame (1959), Webster College at Webster Grove, MO (1965-66), the Otis Art Institute at Los Angeles, CA (1968-69), and the San Francisco Art Institute (1971-72), where he earned the MFA degree in 1972. During this period he also served as chairman of the art department at St. Bede Academy and began to build up a collection of his own works. Since insurance companies frowned upon kilns and welding equipment in school buildings, Fr. Joseph developed the round barn that had formerly housed our dairy herd into a sculpture studio, and there executed his major works, principally in fulfillment of commissions. When the studio burned down in 1997, the cause, paradoxically, was not his acetylene torches, but a routine brush fire. The new building that replaced it contains a modest gallery of his smaller works. In addition to these, he created, among other sculptures, a monumental bronze statue of internationally famous violinist Maud Powell, a native of Peru, IL, commissioned by local citizens to decorate a new plaza in the city, a statue of St. Mark the Evangelist and his symbolic lion that stands outside St. Mark’s Church in Peoria; a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in the village park at Hennepin, IL, a statue of Mary, Mother of the Church at St. Monica’s Parish in East Peoria (a duplicate copy of which stands in the grass courtyard at St. Bede next to the abbey building), and a steel statue of the Risen Christ in the St. Bede Abbey Church. In 1994, upon retiring from teaching, Fr. Joseph was assigned as part-time associate pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Peru, where he resided for the next fifteen years, assisting in the parish while also continuing his art work at the abbey on most afternoons. Upon the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, he returned to full-time residence at the abbey, where he remained until his transfer to St. Joseph’s Nursing Home. In addition to the monastic community of St. Bede Abbey, Father Joseph is survived by his three sisters, Mrs. Joan Schaber and Mrs. Patricia Callaway, both of Peoria, and Sister Mary Ann Heyd, O.P. of Sinsinawa, WI. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his younger brother, Attorney Charles Heyd of Cincinnati, OH. Abbot Philip Davey, OSB and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954822-RYDI1PCQAS9IHFTP9EQF/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.28.48+PM.png Death Notices - The Rt. Rev. Emeritus Marion Eugene Balsavich (Copy) The Rt. Rev. Emeritus Marion Eugene Balsavich BORN: SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, JUNE 11, 1925 PROFESSED: JULY 11, 1946 ORDAINED: SEPTEMBER 22, 1951 ELECTED: APRIL 10, 1981 RESIGNED: APRIL 22, 1990 DIED: MARCH 16, 2012 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, The Rt. Rev. Emeritus Marion Eugene Balsavich, who fell asleep in the Lord at the age of 86 in the early morning hours of Friday, March 16, 2012 in the infirmary of the abbey, where he had been receiving hospice care for two weeks following a brief stay at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley, IL, due to complications resulting from chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Abbot Marion was born in Springfield, Illinois, on June 11, 1925 and baptized on July 5 in Immaculate Conception Cathedral there as Eugene Ignatius. His mother, Mary Marenda, was a native of Spring Valley, and his father, John Balsavich a native of northern Illinois who had come to Spring Valley to work in the coal mines. The family lived in Springfield from 1921 to 1926 because his father found employment there, but then returned to Spring Valley. He had one brother, John Paul, four years older than he, who died in 2009, and he is survived by a younger sister, Mrs. Joan Crumbaugh of Leroy, IL. After elementary education at the Immaculate Conception grade school in Spring Valley, he came to St. Bede Academy in 1939, initially as a day student, where he had an outstanding academic record and was an active participant in extra-curricular activities. During his last two years of high school, he accepted an invitation to live as a boarding student at the school in return for working in the academy office and in the student infirmary, and continued this arrangement during his first two years of college, with the intention of entering the monastic community. His novitiate year was spent at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN, followed by simple profession in July of 1946. He spent the next two years completing college studies, first at St. Benedict’s College in Atchison, KS, and then at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a BA in philosophy in 1948. He thereupon undertook further studies in the school of theology at St. Bede for three years until 1951, during which he also taught remedial reading at St. Bede Academy and Greek in the junior college. Ordained a year early on September 22, 1951 by Bishop Joseph Schlarman of Peoria, he was then sent for graduate study in theology to the Collegio di Sant’ Anselmo in Rome, Italy, where he obtained the degree of licentiate in sacred theology after two years. He then pursued further studies for the doctorate in theology and, after successfully defending his dissertation on The Witness of St. Gregory the Great to the Place of Christ in Prayer (Pontificium Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome 1959), was awarded the S.T.D. degree in June of 1955. During his last year in Rome, he had resided with the Camaldolese community at the basilica of San Gregorio on the Coelian Hill. Upon returning to St. Bede, Fr. Marion became the principal instructor in dogmatic theology in our school of theology and also student chaplain and prefect of the seminary students in the junior college. A few years later he was appointed rector of the school of theology, a position that he retained until it closed in 1969. Beginning in 1957, he also taught moral theology as well as systematic theology until 1962, and he also offered a course in preaching to the junior monks of our community and those from several other monasteries who studied in our theology school during the 1960’s. In 1962 Father Marion was appointed subprior of the abbey and master of clerics, as well as secretary of the chapter and of the council of seniors. He then served as prior of the monastery during the years when his predecessor, Prior David Duncan, who was elected abbot in 1968, governed the community as abbot, until his resignation in1981. During these years after the completion of Vatican Council II, he was instrumental in the planning and construction of our abbey church, completed in 1974, and, as chairman of the liturgy committee, did an enormous amount of work in restructuring the divine office and selecting suitable texts and translations, especially for the lectionary of the office. Beginning already in 1967, Prior Marion was also active in the renewal efforts of the monasteries of the American-Cassinese Congregation, serving on the committee that produced the document Renew and Create, which was approved by the General Chapter in 1969, and then from 1978 to 1980 as secretary of the committee that studied the election of abbots and prepared the first edition of the Guidelines for Abbatial Elections, which was approved by the General Chapter in 1983. In the 1960’s and 1970’s he also preached community retreats in several monasteries of both men and women, taught theology one summer at an institute in California, and assisted occasionally in local parishes, serving for a time as administrator of St. Thomas More Parish in Dalzell after the sudden death of Father Alcuin Mueller in 1974.. Upon the resignation of Abbot David in 1981 he was elected abbot of St. Bede on April 10 of that year and was blessed on May 25 by Bishop Edward O’Rourke of Peoria in our abbey church, in the presence of our metropolitan, Cardinal John Cody of Chicago. He served as abbot until he reached the age of 65 in 1990, when he submitted his resignation in accord with the proper law of our Congregation at that time. Abbot Marion was an extremely organized person who dealt methodically with the issues posed by the conciliar-inspired renewal of monastic life and the problems arising from rapidly changing cultural and economic conditions. He accordingly challenged the community to reorganize the structures of our institution and to adopt clear policies for the direction and governance of both the abbey and of St. Bede Academy. During his administration the monastery building underwent a renovation that transformed our former choir chapel into an attractive chapter room, some monastic cells into rooms for elderly monks, and others into an infirmary equipped for compassionate care of the sick and accessible to nurses and visitors. Above all, however, his emphasis was upon the intellectual and especially spiritual growth of the monks themselves, and his solid theologically-based liturgical preaching and monastic teaching and exhortations were a source of enrichment for the community. He was a perfectionist in everything that he did and, while this quality could be discouraging to others whose standards were less demanding, it seems to have been most of all a burden to himself, for he was generally dissatisfied with his own performance and appeared to lack confidence in his ability to do justice to his multiple undertakings. During these years his talents, insights, and disciplined efficiency were further put at the service of our monastic Congregation when he served as visitator to other monasteries and as a member of the President’s council, but particularly as contributor to special projects required by the ongoing renewal activities. From 1982 to 1983 he worked for the committee that studied abbatial tenure and led to a 1983 change in our proper law. From 1983 to 1986 he served as the chairman of the committee that drafted a complete revision of the Constitutions of our Congregation, which were adopted by the General Chapter of 1986 and subsequently confirmed by the Holy See. During the years when he was our abbot he had suffered a heart attack, from which he recovered, and also had surgery for skeletal problems in his back. A second surgery in 1998 did not completely resolve this issue, and in his final decade of life he was obliged to wear a leg brace and to use a walker, with increasing problems of balance and inability to stand. After his resignation in 1990 he resumed his previous rank in the community and continued to take an active part in the community’s life. He was appointed guest master, initially “until further notice,” an assignment that continued to the end of his life and became a fruitful apostolate both for him and for many people who benefitted from his generous sense of hospitality. He also served as director of the abbey’s theological library for many years, and selected the books that we read at table, as well as continuing to provide readings for the divine office. For much of this period he also took care of the scheduling for the use of the abbey church by the abbey and academy as well as outside agencies. We are grateful for the suffrages that you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, OSB and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954857-TL51IJCX008W1CT379PG/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.30.29+PM.png Death Notices - Father Kevin Dale Gorman (Copy) Father Kevin Dale Gorman BORN: MONEE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 3, 1926 PROFESSED: JUNE 14, 1945 ORDAINED: MAY 13, 1951 DIED: NOVEMBER 25, 2012 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Father Kevin Dale Gorman, who died at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, November 25, 2012 in St. Joseph Nursing Home, Lacon, IL, where he had been a resident for almost three years, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. Father Kevin was born at Monee, IL, on January 3, 1926, the younger of two sons of John E. Gorman and Lucinda Woeltje Gorman and baptized as Dale Francis Gorman. His father was the descendant of a large Irish family that had settled in rural Will County, south of Chicago, and Dale grew up on the family farm. His mother was of German Lutheran extraction, but had converted to Catholicism at the time of her marriage. He was a bright student and, after six years at a local country school, he completed the seventh and eighth grades in a single year at Our Lady Academy in Manteno, IL, and then, a few months before his thirteenth birthday, he followed his older brother Monroe to St. Bede Academy in the fall of 1938..Here, after completing four years of high school and two of college with an excellent academic record, he applied for entry into the monastic community in 1944. Our candidates at that time made their novitiate at St John’s Abbey, Collegeville, MN, and it was there that he made his profession for St. Bede on June 14, 1945. During the next two years he completed his college studies at St. Benedict’s College in Atchison, KS, where he received a BA in philosophy and mathematics in 1947. There followed four years of study in our own school of theology, together with some teaching in our academy, in preparation for his ordination to the priesthood on May 13, 1951. After his ordination Father Kevin was assigned to further study in an agriculture program at the University of Illinois in Champaign, where he earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in agricultural economy. Thus prepared, he taught courses in agriculture during most of the next decade in our college, which had become a junior college after World War II. After the agriculture program was phased out, he earned a second master’s degree in biology at the University of Notre Dame in 1961-62, and subsequently taught biology at St. Bede Academy for the next twenty years, as well as serving as a prefect and in various other capacities in our school. Father Kevin was well known to many people throughout this area because of his long-standing connection with the student athletic program at St. Bede Academy. This had begun already during his student days, when he served as manager of varsity teams, and later, as a member of the faculty, he served as athletic director from 1958 to 1984. An entirely new phase in his life began in 1984, when he was assigned as pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Peru, where he ministered for the next ten years. During this time he presided over the redecoration of the church and the construction of the new “Halle,” which now serves as the parish hall and also as the gymnasium for Peru Catholic School. In 1994 he became pastor of Holy Trinity Parish, Cherry, and of St. Patrick’s Parish, Arlington, where he served until his retirement in 2008. During the long period in which he was engaged in pastoral ministry, he also served for some time on the presbyteral council of the Diocese of Peoria and as a member of the bishop’s college of consultors. In 2011 he observed the 60th anniversary of his ordination at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Lacon, where he had become a patient in January of 2009, after he had spent some six months in retirement at St. Bede. During his stay of almost three years at St. Joseph’s, he was for some time able to return to the abbey on special occasions, but his ability to communicate gradually decreased as his state of health declined. We are grateful for the suffrages that you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased Abbot Philip Davey, OSB and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954903-4IQ8XSCPF797XXQG3X5W/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.31.43+PM.png Death Notices - Father James Michael Murray (Copy) Father James Michael Murray BORN: SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 27, 1926 PROFESSED: JANUARY 1, 1987 ORDAINED: JUNE 5, 1993 DIED: OCTOBER 31, 2011 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Father James Michael Murray, who having patiently endured the ravages of untreatable cancer for several months, died peacefully in the abbey infirmary the morning of October 31, 2011, the abbot at his side. Fr. James was born October 27, 1926, in Schenectady, New York, the eldest of four sons of Michael and Beatrice (Audet) Murray. He attended local schools, graduating from Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady, in 1944. He then enrolled at Union College, Schenectady, but shortly thereafter was inducted into the United States Army. After serving for a year as an Army personnel clerk in Europe, he received an honorable discharge and resumed studies at Union College, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in literature in 1950. In 1955 Fr. James married (Judith) Michele Freedman. They had four children: David of St. Louis, Missouri; Jonathon of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Sarah of Alameda, California; and Matthew of the Bronx, New York. Mrs. Murray, a highly regarded poet and reviewer of poetry for numerous publications, died of cancer in 1974, leaving Fr. James to raise their four children, then ranging in age from eighteen to eight, as a single father. In the early 1950s Fr. James worked in banking. He then held various major administrative positions in the area of personnel for, successively, the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.; the central personnel office of the District of Columbia; and the District’s Department of Sanitary Engineering. In 1969, a year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., when racial tensions were at their height in the District of Columbia and across the nation, Fr. James was hired to serve as Personnel Director of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, the first civilian ever to hold that post. In that capacity he used highly innovative techniques to recruit a total of almost 2,000 additional officers for the force, greatly increasing the number of African American and other minority members, and adding as well a good proportion of Ivy League graduates and women. He also was instrumental in securing female officers, whose duties hitherto had been both limited and confined to matters concerning women and children, full police responsibilities. Although he had never been a police officer himself, he was soon promoted to the rank of Assistant Chief of Police for Administrative Services. In 1974 Fr. James became Evaluation Manager of the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington, heading a staff that oversaw the application of federal personnel policies in at least half of the extant federal departments and agencies. He retired in 1979 to devote himself more fully to the raising of his family. Decades later he was still fondly remembered by many in the nation’s capital. An inner spiritual journey culminated in his entering St. Bede Abbey in 1985. He professed his first vows January 1, 1987. In 1989 he began studies for the priesthood at Saint Meinrad School of Theology, from which he received Master of Arts and Master of Divinity degrees in 1993. He was ordained June 5 of that year. Beside doing chaplain’s work at the local Catholic hospital, for several years Fr. James taught the course in marriage to St. Bede Academy seniors and for two decades served as Director of Oblates for the abbey. Increasingly, however, his time and energies were devoted to administering the sacrament of reconciliation and giving spiritual direction. Much of Fr. James’ life story is recounted in a 1999 memoir written by his youngest son, Matthew, entitled The Father and the Son. As Abbot Philip characterized him in his funeral homily, Fr. James was a man simply overwhelmed with “the extravagance of God’s love” and a channel of that love for the scores of priests, religious, and lay people who attended retreats that he gave or sought him out for confession and spiritual direction. He continued his pastoral ministry even while confined to our infirmary and in hospice care; so great was the number of his visitors from outside the abbey that Abbot Philip had to personally schedule visits, limiting them so as to prevent Fr. James from becoming overtaxed and overtired. Possessed of a gentle but determined disposition, Fr. James could sometimes be oblivious to people and happenings around him as he followed his unyielding daily routine. What others sometimes perceived as a lack of consideration was for him a matter of self-discipline. A man of Spartan habits, he kept his windows open virtually every night, even during the coldest spells of winter, and each morning rose at 3:00, began the lectio with which his entire day was punctuated, read the Chicago Tribune, and prayed the first of his rosaries for the day. A voracious reader, he always had several books “going” at the same time: books on theology and spirituality (notably books on Mary); books on government and politics; books on current events in the Church, the nation, and the world. He was also a discriminating reader of works of fiction and poetry and was a lover of the arts in general. He was keenly attuned to the weather and, an Easterner at heart, positively reveled in those frosty days with slate gray skies celebrated by the poet Elinor Wylie. It was a joke among his children that their father loved weather, period. Fierce in his love of God and the Mother of God, Fr. James was firm but tenderhearted, understanding, and compassionate in dealing with those who came to him for spiritual help. Louis Evely once defined a saint as “someone who believes that God loves him.” Fr. James seemed to have a gift for awakening or deepening in each person who came to him an awareness of God’s love for that person in his or her brokenness. He himself was highly sensitive to personal criticism, a fact unbeknown even to many of his confreres because he unfailingly maintained an even-tempered and cheerful exterior. He well knew what it is to suffer in silence and could therefore well understand the private agonies of those to whom he ministered. Fr. James’ normal speaking voice was something akin to a hoarse whisper, and the pace of his speech, especially when he wished to emphasize a point, was insistent. A microphone only amplified the unintelligibility of much of what he said in homilies. But that same voice brought consolation and comfort to untold souls in private converse. In his final days, it gave way almost entirely, so that he was barely audible. Three days before his death, however, he managed to summon it forth to ask the monk who was attending him, “What’s next?” Mistakenly thinking that he was confused about the time of day, his confrere replied, “Supper.” Fr. James quickly corrected the misunderstanding by sweeping his hand down the length of his emaciated body saying, “No, I mean with this, the cancer. What does the Lord have in mind for me? What does he want me to do? I’m ready for anything.” And with that he began to pray aloud for forgiveness for any sins of pride he had committed, the tears that so often accompanied his prayer, both private and public, streaming down his cheeks, one hand on his heart, the other firmly grasping that of his brother monk. In this way he made his own, as it were, the opening and closing sentences of one of his wife’s poems, a favorite of his, written when she herself was dying of cancer: “My sentence has introduced me to the language of mutes / who find themselves sprinkled like dull pebbles / across the stony north of their lives. Those who know their end lose the sounds of pride.” Beside his wife, Fr. James was preceded in death by his parents and brothers. He is survived by his monastic community, his children and their spouses, and four grandchildren. We offer our gratitude for the suffrages that you will offer for Fr. James, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, OSB and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954862-5DMJXXVICURSGMSZ7V1C/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.33.22+PM.png Death Notices - Father Bernard Anthony Horzen (Copy) Father Bernard Anthony Horzen BORN: LASALLE, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 18, 1926 PROFESSED: JULY 11, 1947 ORDAINED: MAY 3, 1953 DIED: DECEMBER 8, 2011 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Father Bernard Anthony Horzen, who died on the morning of December 8, ten days short of his 85th birthday, at St. Joseph Nursing Home in Lacon, Illinois, where he had been a patient since September of 2010. Fr. Bernard, born in LaSalle, Illinois, on December 18, 1926, was the son of Anton and Josephine (Kukman) Horzen. After completing his elementary education at St. Roch’s Grade School, he attended St. Bede Academy and Junior College from 1940 to 1946, after which he entered the monastery’s novitiate, then at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, in July of 1946 and professed his first vows as a monk of St. Bede on July 11, 1947. Fr. Bernard completed his college studies with a B.A. in philosophy from St. John’s University in Collegeville in 1949. He subsequently spent four years in theological studies at St. Bede and was ordained to the priesthood on May 3, 1953, by Bishop William E. Cousins at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Peoria. In 2003 he celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination in the abbey church at St. Bede. Assigned to teach science at St. Bede Academy, he first returned to St. John’s University for a bachelors of science degree in 1955, and then earned a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Notre Dame in 1957. During his long teaching career of over fifty years he also attended seventeen summer sessions in physics, chemistry, and computer science at thirteen different universities. At St. Bede Academy, in addition to physics and chemistry he also taught mathematics, physical science, and radiation and computer science, and coached the scholastic bowl team. He also served as prefect of boarding students, as kitchen manager, as manager of the bookstore, snack bar, and concessions, as moderator of the science club, and as head of the science department. He was active in a number of organizations, especially in the Junior Academy of Sciences, serving on the board of directors for an extended period and occupying various offices over the years. He also served as chaplain of the LaSalle Council of the Knights of Columbus. Fr. Bernard for many years preached in various parishes in Illinois and Wisconsin on behalf of Aid to International Monasticism, an agency that supports monasteries in the third world both spiritually and financially. He also served on the AIM board of directors and was otherwise active in support of foreign missions. Because Fr. Bernard treasured his Slovenian heritage, he would faithfully attend the funeral or wake for local Slovenians and offer a prayer in Slovenian for that person. For much of his life as a priest he was the chaplain for the local American Slovenian Catholic Union. He was such an inspiration to the local and national membership that he was the National Spiritual Advisor of this organization. In 2001 Fr. Bernard was named administrator of St. Thomas More Parish in Dalzell, and became pastor two years later. He continued to minister there until ill health forced his retirement in June of 2009. He resided in the abbey infirmary until a medical crisis in august of 2010 required his hospitalization, followed by residence at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home, Lacon, Illinois. During his time at the nursing home in Lacon Fr. Bernard deeply grieved his absence for his home, St. Bede Abbey. We now give thanks for his generous, zealous ministry to so many people in so many ways, and ask you to join us in prayer that he will now be at rest in his eternal home with God and the Blessed Virgin Mary. We are grateful for the suffrages that you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. Abbot Philip Davey, OSB and community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/658034cdfee1961d9869151c/1702900954834-L201LI952BQKZ72VV7ZB/Screen+Shot+2020-11-16+at+3.34.33+PM.png Death Notices - Father Stephen John Souse (Copy) Father Stephen John Souse BORN: PEORIA, ILLINOIS, NOV. 7, 1916 PROFESSED: JULY 2, 1937 ORDAINED: JUNE 13, 1943 DIED: JULY 23, 2010 We request your prayers for our deceased confrere, Father Stephen John Souse, the senior in age and profession of our community, who collapsed and died unexpectedly while on his way to vespers on Friday, July 23, 2010, in the ninety-fourth year of his age, the seventy-fourth of his profession, and the sixty-eighth of his priesthood. Born on November 7, 1916, Father Stephen was the oldest of four children born to Maronite parents in Peoria, Illinois after they had emigrated from Lebanon and here joined other citizens from the same village. Because there was no Maronite parish in Peoria at that time, the children grew up and went to school in the Latin rite parish of St. Boniface, then staffed by Franciscan friars. After finishing public high school John came to St. Bede in 1934 for college, and two years later entered our community with the name Stephen, making his novitiate at St. Vincent Archabbey and his first profession in 1937, after he had canonically transferred to the Latin rite. As was customary in those days, he completed all his philosophy and theology studies here at the abbey, and was ordained to the priesthood in the Peoria cathedral in 1943. After ordination he was sent to the Catholic University of America to study Sacred Scripture. There he earned the required licentiate in theology in 1945, but was called back to the abbey before he could proceed further with more specialized biblical studies. During the next few years Father Stephen was assigned for relatively brief periods first to St. Francis Parish in Ottawa and then to St. Joseph Parish in Chicago to assist elderly pastors during times of illness. In 1947 he was sent to Spalding Institute in Peoria, which was then staffed by our monks, and he served there until our community withdrew from that high school in 1950. All the remaining sixty years of his long life were spent at the abbey, where he quietly and unobtrusively fulfilled a variety of services for the community and for our academy. In the early years he taught Sacred Scripture in our school of theology, and was quite regularly assigned to priestly ministry in nearby parishes, both for weekend assistance and for daily Masses for as long as we still provided that service. But after some health problems emerged, his contributions were confined to the monastery itself. Since 1968 he had been the stipendarius who handled all requests for Masses and arranged for them to be offered as specified by the donors. He became community barber already in the 1930’s and, while sharing this duty with others in subsequent years, he had done it alone for the past two decades. For longer than anyone can remember he distributed the mail to both the academy and the abbey, and saw that newspapers reached their proper destinations. A horticultural enthusiast, he regularly cared for the numerous plants in our refectory, chapter room, corridors, and landings of staircases. Though he once taught typing, his work in our school for the past forty years was mostly as registrar in the academy office. In recent decades the various operations concerned with student records, grades, transcripts, and reports to parents have gradually become computerized, but it is only within the past year that the last of his functions was eliminated. He was no admirer of modern technology, though he seems to have made an exception for the copy machine, over which he exercised paternal supervision for a long period. His principal tool, until it became obsolete, was the manual typewriter, on which he continuously produced vast quantities of careful, errorless typing, including witty and often acerbic commentaries on current affairs in the community and in the Church. Throughout his life Father Stephen adhered to the daily monastic horarium and to his assignments with a quiet, usually wordless regularity, so dependable that one could almost set his watch by his movements. We are grateful for the suffrages that you will offer for our deceased confrere, and we promise faithful remembrance of your deceased. 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