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ON THE WEB IN THE NEWS For detailed information about the following items, please access the news section of the Athenaeum Website, www.athenaeum.edu Dinner for Six with the Archbishop & President/ Rector Tom Joseph, a member of the Athenaeum Board of Trustees, and his wife, Kathy, were lucky winners at the Taste and See event last September. The Josephs won dinner for six with Most Rev. Dennis M. Schnurr, archbishop of Cincinnati and the Rev. Benedict O’Cinnsealaigh, Athenaeum president/rector. The dinner was served at the archbishop’s home. The Josephs’ guests were Tony and Stacy Potts and Dave and Joan Rakel. Four Seminarians, Vice Rector and Spiritual Director Visit the Holy Land The annual seminarian pilgrimage trip to the Holy Land, made possible through the generosity of Athenaeum benefactors, occurred in late May and early June this year with four seminarians, the Rev. Anthony Brausch, vice rector of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West and Monsignor Frank Lane, spiritual director, participating. The seminarians will enter their fourth year of theology this fall and are scheduled to be ordained transitional deacons in the spring of 2014 and priests in 2015. Rector Named to National Seminary Department Executive Committee The Rev. Benedict O’Cinnsealaigh, president/rector of The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West has been elected as a member of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) Seminary Department Executive Committee. Maly Library Books Now Available through Local Branch Libraries The Eugene H. Maly Memorial Library exists to serve not only the students and faculty of the Athenaeum but all the residents of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati who seek to understand the Catholic faith more deeply. For those who cannot travel to the east side of Cincinnati, books can be delivered to more convenient locations. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County recently joined the OhioLINK consortium. The Athenaeum is an OhioLINK library. This means books on Catholic spirituality, ethics, biblical studies, Church history, evangelization, sacraments, theology, prayer, and others delivered to your local branch library. For details and more information, please call the Maly Library at 513-233-6136. Faculty Dr. Patricia Pintado, director of the St. James Project, attended a conference in March at the Fulton Sheen House of Formation in Washington DC where she gave a lecture on “Ratzinger on Faith and Reason.” The Rev. Timothy P. Schehr, professor of biblical studies, in July presented a program titled “Lunch with the Lord” featuring a series on Luke’s Gospel at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains. The Rev. Paul J. Keller, O.P., assistant professor of sacramental theology, has been invited to join the Academy of Catholic Theology (ACT). This prestigious society’s principal purpose is to foster theological work of the highest intellectual standard that is faithful to the spirit of the revelation of God in Christ as that revelation has been handed on in Scripture and tradition, and authoritatively interpreted by the Magisterium. Father Keller also gave a retreat in June to the priests of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb. focusing on the wedding at Cana. Deacon David Shea, associate professor of homiletics, was the keynote speaker for St. Philip the Apostle Parish’s “kickoff” fellowship event: “Love on the Vine – Marriage Dinner & Program” in June at Valley Vineyards, Morrow. The married couples evening will be the fi rst event for the parish’s newlyformed fellowship committee. It will have as its objectives bringing together parishioners in a social setting and connecting with other parishioners to learn something about the Catholic faith while acquiring some skills and tools to help in their marriages. Deacon Shea also was presenter for the Poor Brothers of Saint Francis at their Annual Assembly held at the Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, Indianapolis in June. The topics for his two presentations were “Faith, Conversion, Discipleship, & Evangelization.” The Brothers, who currently serve in six dioceses throughout the United States, had as goals for this year’s assembly reconnecting as a community through prayer, spiritual enrichment and as an opportunity to celebrate Franciscan life. Deacon Shea also in June attended a Conference of 18 The Athenaeum Magazine
Teachers of Homiletics on the new United States bishops’ document on preaching – “Preaching the Mystery of Faith.” It was convened by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life & Vocations and held at the University of Notre Dame. Students Manuel Venegas and Joseph Scott, seminarians studying at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West for the Comboni Missionaries, were featured in the Winter, 2012 issue of Comboni Missions magazine. Alumni The Rev. Michael Pucke, class of ’73, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, was featured in the April issue of Maryknoll Magazine about his work in Santiago, Chile from 1985 to 1991 as a Maryknoll priest associate – a diocesan priest who serves temporarily in the Maryknoll missions. Presently, Father Pucke is pastor at St. Julie Billiart Parish, in Hamilton. Correction Monsignor Bertrand Schenk, whose obituary appeared in the Spring 2013 edition was 100. His age was incorrectly reported. We regret the error. PASSINGS The Rev. James F. Trick, former pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Botkins and St. Lawrence Parish, Rhine, and Holy Redeemer Parish, New Bremen, died June 2. He was 78. Mary Lee Rossbach, mentor and adjunct faculty member at the Athenaeum and former associate director of the Athenaeum’s Lay Pastoral Ministry Program (LPMP), died March 20. She was 85. The Rev. Donald Kuntz, the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit and a 1941 graduate of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, died June 13. He was 99 with 72 years of priestly service. Please remember these deceased alumni in our prayers. Ordained alumni who are constitutive members of the Athenaeum Alumni Association, are reminded to celebrate a Mass, or have a Mass celebrated, for deceased constitutive members (identified with ). — Full obituaries of Father Trick, Father Kuntz and Ms. Rossbach appear on the Athenaeum website: www.athenaeum.edu Taste and See 2013 “T aste & See”, a Bishop Fenwick Society recruitment event, will be held at the Athenaeum September 17, 2013. The evening will offer a wine and beer tasting and the opportunity to tour the building with our seminarians, meet and chat with Most Rev. Dennis M. Schnurr, archbishop of Cincinnati and the Rev. Benedict O’Cinnsealaigh, president/rector of the Athenaeum/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West. The event’s purpose is to introduce prospective Bishop Fenwick Society (BFS) members to The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West and to grow our membership. The Bishop Fenwick Society helps provide the prayer and financial support needed to fulfill the Athenaeum’s mission of preparing people to serve the Church effectively as priests, deacons, and lay ministers. Membership is extended to those who make an unrestricted annual contribution of $1,000 or more. Generations Circle membership is an affordable option ($250) for younger people (age 21-49) interested in joining the Bishop Fenwick Society. For more information, please contact the Athenaeum Advancement Office at 513-231-2223. REST IN PEACE Friends of the Athenaeum Leroy Jacquemin, father of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus, the Rev. George Jacquemin, died April 4. Willie Cross, father of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus the Rev. Bill Cross, died April 12. James Charles Krumme, member of the Bishop Fenwick Society, died April 16. Marianna Walling, mother of the Rev. Rick Walling, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus, died April 26. Patti K. Schehr, wife of Kevin Schehr and sister-in-law of the Rev. Timothy Schehr, Athenaeum professor of biblical studies and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus, died April 30. Elbert Lee McGrady, father of Coleen Vogelgesang of the Athenaeum’s advancement department, died May 13. Mary Martha Kummer, mother of the Rev. John Kummer, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus, died June 16. Rachel Doseck, younger sister of seminarian David Doseck, died June 22. Timothy Klett, nephew of Patricia Brennan, Maly library employee and Lay Pastoral Ministry Program student, and son of Marian Klett, died June 26. Douglas Mick, brother of the Rev. Lawrence Mick, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West alumnus and Bishop Fenwick Society member, died July 21. Faculty Essays Featured in Year of Faith Booklet Eight Athenaeum faculty members contributed to a book of brief essays published by the Athenaeum in observance of the Year of Faith. Pope Benedict XVI declared October 2012-November 2013 a Year of Faith, and publishing this book is one way the Athenaeum has observed it. Copies of the book have been distributed to priests of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. A few copies are available in the Athenaeum library, and an electronic version of the book is available to all at http://www.mtsm.org/pdf/YearofFaithbook.pdf In the recent past, the Athenaeum observed the papal Year for Priests and Year of St. Paul by publishing similar collections of essays. SUMMER 2013 19
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