July 2006 - St. Michael's Abbey

JULY 2006
The St.Michael Messenger
News for Friends and Benefactors of St.Michael’s Abbey and Preparatory School
Dear Friends of
St. Michael’s Abbey
So much has happened since we returned
from the trip to the abbey at Barroux in
France. This journey has already borne
fruit in the form of a visit to St. Michael's
by the French team of architects, Jean-
Louis Pagès and his lovely wife Françoise,
as well as his associate Bernard Lacourte,
who came to California during May.
During this visit, they were able to visit
the land where the new abbey and school
will be built, and during a quiet moment
there, they commented that the site
exceeded their highest expectations.
In this issue you will continue to visit
different places within a Norbertine abbey
and discover their functions in the living
out of our common life, one in which we
show love of God in divine worship and
love of neighbor in sharing with others
what we receive in praising Him.
By the time you read these words, our
theology students will have returned from
Rome for their apostolate at the summer
camp. One of these students, Fr. Sebastian
Walshe, has completed his doctorate in
theology, and will take his place on the
faculty here at the abbey, teaching our
ever increasing number of seminarians.
Thank you for your continuing
generosity with prayers and alms.
We keep you and your loved ones
in our daily prayers at Office
and Mass.
+Eugene J. Hayes, O.Praem.
Every home has a heart
For an abbey,
the heart is the cloister.
This is the square courtyard at the center of a traditional monastic building. It has
access to all the main rooms of the abbey: the church, refectory (dining hall) and the
chapter room. Traditionally, cloisters have served as a place set apart, where peace
and silence reign and dispose us for peace and communication with God. They are
also the place where all the priests and seminarians form two lines before processing
into the abbey church for the hours of prayer (the Office) and Mass each day.
An interesting architectural fact: in northern countries, where winters are cold, the abbey church
was usually located on the south side of the cloister, so the southern wall of the church would
provide a heating surface to help the monks stay warm. In hotter places, the church was put on the
north end, providing shade in the summer’s heat. In the architect’s illustration above, our abbey
has a church on the northern side of the cloister.
Another vital "heart" of an abbey is the chapter room. This room provides a place where the
community hears a portion of the Rule of St. Augustine each day. Traditionally, the abbot will
make a commentary on the passage just read, applying it to the spiritual life of the confreres.
The chapter room also provides a place
where other community meetings occur,
including vestition of candidates, election
of an abbot or prior, announcements of
important events as well as a place where
speakers can address the community for
conferences or lectures.
These sacred places reinforce the livingout
of an authentic religious life. They are
places reserved solely for the community,
wherein each member finds the solitude
and tranquility needed to hear to voice
of God.
The cloister in the abbey of Ste-Madeleine at Barroux

Letters from Rome
The procession into Mass on Wednesday
morning was not your usual procession.
As I made my way to the altar, vested in
red to honor the blood of the martyrs,
I wandered through a maze of dark,
narrow, underground passages dug
from tufa stone. Empty niches and
hollows were carved into the stone on
every side. The simple stone altar stood
alone over a tomb in a small chapel
excavated in the heart of the earth some
seventeen centuries earlier by Pope St.
Damasus. The tomb was that of St.
Sebastian, a martyr of the early Church,
and we were in the catacombs, an
ancient Christian burial site where the
first generations of Christ’s disciples
were laid to rest to await the glorious
day of their resurrection. As I began
to pray the opening words of the Roman
Canon: Te Igitur clementissime Pater
per Jesum Christum Filium Tuum
Dominum nostrum…a prayer which
has its origins in Rome from the time
of the same Pope Damasus, an intense
and tangible sense of unity with the
first Christians overcame me, and I
recalled that they too prayed to the
Triune God in this same place and
with these very words.
Fotograpia Felici
R. Belcher
Life at St. Michael’s
During his visit to Rome in May, Abbot Eugene Hayes
had an audience with our holy father, Pope Benedict XVI.
R. Belcher
May Crowning (May 21)
Holy Week on the Hilltop
R. Belcher
R. Belcher
It is a beautiful thing to be a priest in
Rome. Each of the confreres from St.
Michael’s here in Rome has experienced
graces such as these, graces which
place us in closer contact with the first
Christians, with the Apostles, and
ultimately with Christ. Like Sts. Peter
and Paul, and the first martyrs who shed
their blood in testimony of Christ, Rome
herself stands as a visible witness to the
presence of Christ in the world.
I pray that, as we leave the Eternal City,
those of us who have been fortunate
to live here as students may receive a
portion of the spirit of those holy Apostles
and martyrs so that we may be zealous
for the cause of Christ until the end.
Laudetur Jesus Christus in aeternum,
amen!
Fr. Sebastian Walshe
R. Belcher
R. Belcher
Congratulations to the winners of the Father’s Day Sweepstakes!
1 st Prize $3,000 – Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kelly
2 nd Prize $1,000 – Mr. Gaynor Ryan
3 rd Prize $500 – Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Richter
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Sweepstakes!
With your help, the Seminarian Education Fund raised over $40,000!

Graduation 2006
Congratulations
As students arrive week after week at St. Michael’s
Prep, the high metal cross looms over everything
they are going to be and do, marking the one place
in their lives that perhaps has affected them more
than any other–the abbey church. Every morning for
four years, St. Michael’s students begin their day by
attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; before lunch they pause briefly there to pray
the Angelus; when sun sets they bless their night by adoring our Lord in the Blessed
Sacrament and availing themselves of Confession. But now, after all such good practices
provided by our holy faith, their graduation into the world at large is marked by
a ceremony within the same sacred walls where their stability was most nurtured,
mercy so frequently received, and their characters enriched and deepened.
Ranging in ethnic backgrounds from Scottish to Filipino, Romanian to Taiwanese,
and various sorts of European descent, these ten young men, the graduating class
of 2006, have this one common denominator–their Catholic faith; one of them is
a convert. Personalities collide over four years; friendships are formed, broken,
and re-forged; but all take pride in "one faith, one Lord, one baptism" (Eph. 4:5).
Their academic accomplishments have not been overshadowed by their athletic prowess,
both of which have been considerable, and the universities to which they applied have
not been slow in acknowledging this. Universities of California at Irvine, Berkley, San
Diego and Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona and San Luis Obispo, Auburn, St. Mary’s at
Moraga, USC, Virginia Military Institute, Thomas Aquinas College, Christendom College,
Ave Maria College, Notre Dame University and the United States Naval Academy–these
are just some of the higher institutes that have indicated they will be enriched by having
a St. Michael’s graduate attend their schools.
And so the commencement exercises on a warm June evening bring to fruition a project
much broader than mere book learning, much deeper than character building. Ending
their sojourn at St. Michael’s in the church which has nurtured them so, with parental
support surrounding them and the presence of friends congratulating them, these men
now venture out to share the Gospel of Christ with everyone they meet for the rest of
their lives.
R. Belcher
R. Belcher
Jeremy Anoc ‘06
A great number of unexpected things will happen to the average student attending St. Michael’s
Prep. One of the most unexpected things to happen to me was becoming a Godparent. Needless
to say, when my good friend and fellow Senior Richard Chen asked me to be his baptismal
sponsor, I was speechless. Interestingly, this came as even more of a surprise to me than finding
out that he wanted to become a Roman Catholic–a testament to the commitment to proclaiming
the truth which St. Michael’s has, and more importantly, to the power of Divine Providence.
The gravity of what was going to take place did not strike me until the rehearsal for the combined ceremony of Baptism and
Confirmation. Having been baptized as an infant, I then was unable to see the beauty of choosing to receive the immense graces of
Baptism after realizing that one had been experiencing a spiritual drought beforehand. I now see a bit more clearly what a privilege
it is to have the gift of the Sacraments as a Catholic. Although I was not able to choose to be baptized, I was blessed enough to have
gone through something nearly as efficacious–learning much about and growing in great love for my faith here at St. Michael’s.

St. Michael’s Prep Alumni News
Christian Melendez ’84 serves as the Division Officer at the
Naval Health Clinic in Hawaii. He and his wife Alicia have three
beautiful children – Luca, Isabella and Andreas.
Dorian Vallecillo ’85 helped organize a reunion held June 3rd
of St. Michael’s graduates from the 1980’s. He currently lives in
Hallandale Beach, FL, and works in radio advertising.
Richard Martini ’85 lives in Burbank, CA with his wife, son
and daughter. He works for Wells Fargo Auto Finance. His brother
Ernest Martini ‘83 is also a St. Michael’s alumnus.
Bill Martin ’88 is a psychotherapist in Chino, CA, where he lives
with his wife and son.
Nico Melendez ’87, his wife Melissa and their 5 children live in
Lake Elsinore, CA. He works for the Office of Homeland Security.
Matthew Mallon ’85 resides in Manhattan Beach, CA, with
his wife and two children. He continues to work for ABC radio.
Johnny Lin ‘97AA returned safely from his tour in Iraq on
April 6 and married Yoona Kim on June 17, 2006. Fr. Justin
performed the ceremony.
Thomas Sire ‘97AA recently returned from Guyana, South America,
where he spent three years with the Peace Corps. He worked in a
small hospital serving the needs of the local villagers. He plans on
studying medicine in the fall.
Ivan Hernandez ’99 recently returned from a three month
trip to India. He will enter Harvard Law School in the fall.
Stephen Kubik ’99 graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
with a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He won
1st Place in a national team aircraft design competition and
hopes to work for either NASA-Dryden or Lockheed-Martin.
Ian Mochow ’01 has been accepted to Marquette for the fall
semester in their Masters of Arts in Journalism program.
Anthony Nguyen ’02
graduated from West Point
this May as was commissioned
as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
U.S. Army. He will ultimately
be stationed with the 11th
Armored Cavalry Regiment
at Fort Irwin, CA after Airborne
School, Basic Leadership Course
and Signal Office Basic Course. His brother, Andrew Nguyen ’05,
who attends UC Irvine, attended his brother’s graduation, for which
President George W. Bush was the guest speaker.
Paul Ledbetter ’05 will enter the U.S. Coast Guard Academy this fall.
He is currently assisting the Kolbe Missionaries in Brazil with Ryan
Holke ’04.
Lowell Schaper ’05 married Joanna Schroeder on April 22, 2006.
Fr. Chrysostom performed the ceremony.
Joe Atchley ’06 received the "President’s Scholarship" at Thomas
Aquinas College in Nashville, TN. This scholarship is valued at
$100,000 over four years.
For more alumni news, go to www.stmichaelsprep.org.
Do you want to stay in touch with teachers and friends from your days on
the hilltop? Please send us news about and photos of yourself and your family.
You can do this by sending an email to alumni@stmichaelsprep.org Be sure to
tell us whetheryou wish to make your contact information available to others,
so we can respect your wishes.
Congratulations to our baseball team, who made it to the 2 nd
round of CIF playoffs!
Every spring, students from St. Michael’s Prep School assist in
laying foundations for housing for those in most need in Mexico.
Alumni Matthew Mallon ’85 and Joe Piteleski ’85 visit with
Headmaster Emeritus Fr. Szanto during an alumni reunion.

Senior Reflections
Kyle Abramson – Looking back, I now understand
how four years of hardship, joy, education and
formation have served well to turn me into a Catholic
young man who is ready to face life confidently. Thank
you to all those at St. Michael’s who gave so freely
of themselves and through whom I have learned the
strength of faith, hope, courage and love, which
prepares us to venture out into the world. The result
is success in education, responsibility and faith.
Jeremy Anoc – I was a different person before
coming to this school; the way I was most different
had to do with my faith in God. I looked at attending
Mass as a nuisance, something that needlessly took
time away from doing better things, but now know
that there is nothing better. Seeing the reverence of
the priests in Mass and their dedication in activities
outside of the church has been inspiring. Learning
from Scripture, Philosophy and Ethics classes, and
witnessing the Faith-in-action of Mass and Holy Hour,
has been incredibly fulfilling. I am confident that my
time at St. Michael’s will be the launching ground
for a more fruitful life.
Joseph Atchley – When I came to St. Michael’s as
a freshman, I begrudged that my only escape from
isolation “on the hilltop” was through basketball
and attendance at Mass and Holy Hour. I could not
comprehend why my parents had sent me here. Four
years later, I see why. I am grateful for the education
and the frequent reception of the Sacraments. Only
too late did I realize this, and I wish I had taken better
advantage of both of these. Thank you fellow students
and faculty for your support and helping me get
through this school; without you it would have
been impossible.
Richard Chen – I have learned much about myself -
growing both spiritually and mentally. The classes, the
environment and the people have all served to fortify
me for the future. From my very first day, St. Michael’s
has been a life-changing experience; I have been
immersed in the Catholic faith. As I step into the
future and college, I will take with me the many
things I have learned.
Christopher Darrow – The essence of what St.
Michael’s strives to teach surrounds us in our day-today
world, reaching much farther beyond Mass and
Holy Hour. The outstanding examples set by our
Norbertine Fathers have served to lend credence to
their teachings. There is truth in fr. Charbel’s advice,
“When you leave St. Michael’s, you must put on
the armor of faith.” I would choose to endure any
obstacle or hardship in order to experience what I
have come to know over the last four years. Without
a doubt, St. Michael’s Prep has been an experience
I will never forget.
Thomas Dudro – Amidst the collection of
memories of my time here, several things stand
out. The first is my class, my comrades. Through
good times and bad, they have been my brothers.
And like brothers, we did not always get along, but
ultimately we came together and formed a class.
Another is Fr. Szanto, my language teacher through
all four years, who provided me with wisdom
and knowledge beyond acquiring language skills.
Another important element was the presence of
the Catholic Faith, which will continue to be a
guiding light in the midst of whatever secular
confusion I find myself. I thank God for having
come to this school.
Christopher Manly – Throughout my time at
St. Michael’s, God has surprised me over and
over again. Countless times I have tried to deny
God His right to show me what direction He knows
is best. I am grateful for the daily examples of what
it means to live a faith-based life. As students, we
are privileged to study under highly-motivated and
dedicated teachers. We would never find teachers
like those found here in any other school. Was
it worth it? Yes!
Alan Ng – St. Michael’s is the rock upon which
one begins building the foundation of one’s life.
I have acquired liberating knowledge, enabling
me to live as the Catholic Christ calls each one
of us to be. I learned how important love of God
and love of neighbor is. I thank my parents for
the blessings and opportunities presented to
me through St. Michael’s.
Phillip Nguyen – From our freshmen year
to finally becoming an upper classmen, we
embraced the joy of completing a memorable
journey together. Although not always easy to
persevere in such a small environment and I
was not always grateful for what I had, it is with
assurance I say that whatever we, as a class,
achieve in the years to come will depend upon
the choices we make now. As we part, I wish my
fellow classmates well and hope you persevere
in the years to come while not letting go of
what we take with us from St. Michael’s.
Roger Urich – Perhaps the greatest thing I have
learned at St. Michael’s is that faith must not be
placed in men, but rather in God. Next year we
will be forced to put on the armor of God and we
will miss having such graces so readily available.
The education this school offers is priceless as
it opened our minds and taught us not only
to reason, but how to reason well.

From the Hilltop
News from St. Michael’s Abbey ■
www.abbeynews.com
Path to Priesthood
The path to priesthood through the formation
program at St. Michael’s is a challenging and
exciting process bringing young men from the
postulancy through to the solemn profession
and ordination to the priesthood.
1. Postulancy: During this initial, four month
stage of formation, postulants reside at the abbey
and participate in the life of the community. This
introduces the new seminarians into the lifestyle
of a consecrated religious and assists them in
discerning their vocation more clearly. Vested
with the white Norbertine habit, they are given
a new name as they formally enter religious
life as novices on Christmas Eve.
2. Novitiate: For nearly two years, seminarians
focus their attention on spiritual formation and
continue to be introduced more fully into the life
of the abbey community. Academic formation
focuses on a more complete understanding of
Catholic doctrine, spirituality, liturgy, the essentials
of consecrated religious life and the specific
identity and history of the Norbertine Order.
3. Juniorate: Seminarians make their first
profession of temporary vows for a period of
three years. They begin their formal ecclesiastical
studies in preparation for priestly ordination.
Theological studies are done in Rome. After
this time, juniors make their solemn profession
of vows; after which, juniors are ordained to
the diaconate and usually spend one year as
a deacon before ordination to the priesthood.
History of St. Michael’s Part III
"Go to school, get a job", and, "As you wish, Sire!" New mottos for an old
abbey, or the two-hundred-year-old reason why we have a Preparatory School
After the Turks were driven out with the help of Austria, it was time for the Order in the
Kingdom of Hungary to be restored. A zealous Austrian abbot, Franz Schoellingen redeemed
several monasteries. By 1702 confreres had returned to Csorna. Unfortunately for Abbot Franz
his generosity had broken the bank of his own little abbey, and so he entrusted our Mother
abbey to an abbey in nearby Moravia. During this period the confreres were German-speaking:
no Hungarians or Czechs need apply!
Things would change radically, however, thanks to the church reform policies of the
Freemason "sacristan Emperor" Joseph II. Instead of destroying all the abbeys and killing
or imprisoning the confreres as the French were doing, he pursued a secularist policy and
put all the Church’s institutions (and most of all lands and money) squarely in the hands of
state bureaucrats. Call it an iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove version of "Catholic lite." He suppressed
hundreds of monasteries, including ours in 1786, consolidated their members in bigger
communities, and then told them that if they were to continue they would have to "do
something useful" for the state: like run the schools. Not bad, ultimately, since it saved
the day for Csorna, which was reopened in 1802 under the condition that we run schools.
Hungarian confreres were now accepted. Thirty thousand acres of farm land were restored
to the Norbertines to finance their two boarding schools (no need then for tuition or
fundraising!), all of which remained until the Communists came to power after WWII. Fleeing
to freedom in America, the fathers continued their apostolate, now free from states with total
power…but now I’m getting ahead of the story. Wait ’till you hear about the twentieth century!
Guest Speaker
In May, the community heard Dr. Serge Trifkovic, author of Sword of the Prophet, trace the history of the persecution and
martyrdom of Christians under the various totalitarian regimes, especially the Bolsheviks of the 20th century, and point out
that this persecution killed more Christians, mostly in the East, in a few decades than all previous persecutions put together.
Outside Bolshevism, some 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990, in the Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan,
India and the Balkans - victims of Islamic aggression. That such attacks are rarely reported in the media Trifkovic attributes
to the present weakness in the West. Dr. Trifkovic said that the legacy of these New Martyrs is precious, "because in this 21st
century it will be the turn of Western Christians to experience martyrdom."

Saints Adrian and James,
Norbertine Martyrs
“Presbyterian pirate” is not exactly an expression
that evokes terror nowadays on Balboa Island,
but in sixteenth century Holland, Calvinist blue
and blackbeards were a frightening scourge
along the coast of the North Sea.
In the little village of Munster in summer of 1572, these
bible-toting pirates captured the parish clergy: two
Norbertine canons from the abbey of Middleburg, Adrian
Jansen and James Lacoupe. They knocked on the door
one July night claiming to need the sacraments for a
dying man. They dragged the two priests to prison with
nineteen other priests and brothers from neighboring
villages. Among these were Franciscans, Dominicans,
Augustinian canons and secular priests.
An abandoned cloister near the village of Gorcum then became their jail. In return for denying
the primacy of the Pope of Rome and the Real Presence of the Savior in the Blessed Sacrament,
they were offered their freedom with hefty pensions for life. If not, they would be cruelly
martyred by hanging, their bodies dissected, and the parts sold for the confection of homeopathic
remedies. And so it happened. There are eyewitness accounts of the pirates’ sale of the martyred
priests’ organs and melted fat. The chronicler says of the persecutors “They were not only
barbarous and inhumane, they were stupid and superstitious.” Two of the total of twenty-one gave
in and were spared. The rest were hanged on July 9, 1572 and so became the Holy Nineteen
Martyrs of Gorcum. They were canonized by Blessed Pius IX on 29 July 1867.
There is a famous painting of their martyrdom in the Vatican Museum, a reproduction of which
hangs in the abbey refectory, appropriately enough since St. Adrian is the patron of our provisor
Fr. Adrian. St. James had himself for a while left the Church and become a Calvinist traveling
preacher, writing anti-Catholic tracts. When his dying father pleaded with him he returned
to the faith and to Norbertine religious life. He accepted his martyrdom lovingly in reparation
for his earlier betrayal. May the Holy Martyrs keep us strong in our true faith!
Norbertine
Saints
Patron saints are chosen as special protectors
or guardians over areas of life that are
important to us. The saints listed are either
Norbertine saints or patrons of the confreres
of St. Michael’s.
July 1 • Blessed Junipero Serra
July 9 • SS. Adrian and James, O.Praem.
July 11 • St. Benedict
Patron saint of farmers and monks
July 13 • St. Eugene
July 14 • St. Hroznata the prophet, O.Praem.
July 20 • St. Elias
July 21 • St. Victor
July 24 • St. Charbel
August 1 • St. Alphonsus Mary
Patron saint of arthritics, confessors, moralists and the scrupulous
August 8 • St. Dominic
Patron saint of astronomers and scientists
August 10 • St. Lawrence
Patron saint of archivists, brewers, butchers, comedians and cooks
August 11 • Venerable John Henry Newman
August 14 • St. Maximilian Kolbe
Patron saint of drug addicts, families, prisoners and journalists
August 20 • St. Bernard
Patron saint of beekeepers and candlemakers
August 24 • St. Nathaniel
Patron saint of bookbinders, cobblers and those suffering
from neurological diseases
August 28 • St. Augustine
Patron saint of brewers, printers and theologians
September 3 • St. Gregory
Patron saint of educators, musicians and students
September 8 • St. Alan de la Roche
September 13 • St. John Chrysostom
Patron saint of epileptics, orators and preachers
September 14 • St. Robert Bellarmine
Patron saint of canon lawyers, catechists and catechumens
Question and Answer
Q Why does it say in the missalette that we should all bow together
at the words about God becoming Man in the creed?
A The Roman rite of the Church since at least the 10 th century–in the 12 th these customs are
called by Peter of Cluny as being “already of long use”–has directed and still directs us as a
general rule to make some reverence with our body for the three key mysteries of our faith,
namely the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Real Presence. The liturgy directs us to bow our
heads whenever the three persons of the Holy Trinity are mentioned together, to acknowledge
the Lord’s Incarnation by bowing the head at the mention of His Holy Name and bowing the
body during the creed, to express our belief in the Lord’s Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist
by bowing the knee before the tabernacle, and by making an appropriate reverence at the time
of Holy Communion. We should cherish these often forgotten customs and follow them.
September 21 • St. Matthew
Patron saint of carpenters, reformed alcoholics and tailors
September 29 • St. Michael
Patron saint of ambulance drivers; police officers and soldiers
September 29 • St. Raphael
Patron saint of the blind, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and travelers
September 30 • St. Jerome
Patron saint of archeologists, archivists, librarians and translators
October 4 • St. Francis
Patron saint of animals, environmentalists and zoologists
October 18 • St. Luke
Patron saint of artists, doctors, sculptors,surgeons
and unmarried men
October 20 • Blessed James Kern, O.Praem.
October 24 • St. Anthony Claret
Patron saint of the Catholic press and weavers
October 26 • St. Gilbert, O.Praem.

Want To help St. Michael’s?
There are many ways that you can contribute.
St. Michael’s
Calendar of Events
July 1 First Mass of Frs. John Henry,
Xavier, Andrew and Charbel
St. Michael’s Abbey church
2 Summer Camp* begins
runs through August 5
4 Independence Day
August 13 New Student and Parent Orientation
15 Solemnity of the Assumption
21 First day of School
28 Solemnity of St. Augustine
September 5 Labor Day
20 Anniversary of the Dedication
of St. Michael’s Abbey Church
30 Vantage Point Gala 2006
October 31 Eve of All Saint’s
* For Summer Camp information,
please visit www.abbeynews.com
Mass is held each day at 7 a.m. and on Sundays at 11 a.m.
For further information on calendar of Liturgies
and events, please visit www.abbeynews.com
For more information about the Prep School,
please visit www.stmichaelsprep.org
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The abbey and the school have year-round needs
that rely upon your generosity.
Many students receive scholarships and
your continued generosity allows these young
men to receive the best education available.
Many companies offer an Employer’s Matching
Gift Program that you can ask about at your work.
Have you considered a charitable bequest as
part of your will? Or donating a gift of stock?
A simple gesture will have far-reaching effects:
it will help clothe, feed, house and educate a
rapidly growing number of seminarians; it will
enhance the sacramental ministry of the abbey
and it will help to meet the retirement needs
of our Norbertine priests.
For more information on how you can
donate, please call 949.858.0222 X264.
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our
defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou,
O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits
who go about the world for the ruin of souls.
Amen.
An envelope has been included in this newsletter to allow you to request the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to be offered for you and your loved ones, both living and deceased.
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In this Edition
Abbot Eugene’s Message......................page 1
Letters from Rome...............................page 2
The Pioneer Press...............................page 3
St. Michael’s Prep Alumni News ..........page 4
Senior Reflections ...............................page 5
From the Hilltop.................................page 6
Sts. Adrian and James..........................page 7
Norbertine Saints.................................page 7