Winter Comes to Collegeville - St. John's Abbey

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STRENGTHENING FOUNDATIONS Ever since the first monks of Saint John’s Abbey came to this sacred place in 1856, people of faith have worked with us to provide for our needs and to enable us to fulfill our mission of prayer and work. By offering your support to the abbey you become a part of the important work done by the monks. You join us in our journey, becoming coworkers with us in answering God’s call to do God’s work. With your assistance we strive to continue working into the distant future to serve you and the Church. What Your Gift Can Do Each year our friends and benefactors make financial gifts to support the abbey. What does a gift to the abbey accomplish? Here are a few areas that friends of Saint John’s help support: • Promote vocations to the monastic life and the priesthood • Provide opportunities for spiritual renewal through retreats and spiritual direction • Educate monks so they can teach those who come to our Preparatory page 24 The Abbey Banner Winter 2005 Abbey Archives The monastic community at prayer An Invitation to Help by Year-End Giving and Tax Benefits by Geoffrey Fecht, OSB Please join us in our journey and become co-workers with us. School, University and School of Theology•Seminary • Offer assistance in missionary outreach • Support our Health and Retirement Fund to assure the welfare of monks who have served the Church for generations • Promote enterprises such as Abbey Woodworking and Abbey Arts and Crafts • Maintain abbey buildings and grounds Your gift helps support these many needs of the abbey and makes our ministries possible. Ways to Give As you do your tax planning this year, we hope you will consider making good use of the income tax charitable deduction. Your year-end gift can significantly reduce your income taxes while providing support for Saint John’s Abbey. Regardless of your income, in most cases you can lower your taxes through charitable giving. The amount of the income tax savings will depend, of course, on your tax bracket. But giving is concerned with much more than tax savings. Your charitable gifts make an important difference in what we are able to accomplish. Year-end gift ideas include cash gifts, gifts of stock or real estate, charitable gift annuities and others. For more information please call the Abbey Development Office at 320-363-3556 or e-mail us at sjabbeydev@osb.org. + Don LeMay, OSB, (l.) and Arnold Weber, OSB, visit in Saint Raphael’s Retirement Center.
An Additional Abbey Guest House Contribution In early October we received the wonderful news that Steve and Barbara Slaggie of Winona, Minnesota, have given an additional $1 million toward the construction of the Abbey Guest House. This donation is especially welcome in view of increased construction costs. The new gift brings the Slaggie’s total contribution to this project to $4.5 million. Steve Slaggie graduated with a degree in economics from Saint John’s University in 1961. A university Regent since 1999, he is the long-time director, corporate secretary and shareholder relations officer for the Fastenal Corporation of Winona. Barbara Slaggie was born in Marshall, Minnesota, and comes from a family Steve and Barbara Slaggie contribute another $1 million for construction of the Abbey Guest House. of fifteen. Over the years Steve and Barbara have gotten their whole family involved with Saint John’s. We are delighted with their continued support of the Abbey Guest House. A view of preliminary footings of the Abbey Guest House east of the Abbey Church. The square, boarded up area to the right is the entrance to the utilities tunnel completed this past summer. STRENGTHENING FOUNDATIONS Michael Crouser Lee Hanley Abbey Guest House Construction Update With the utility tunnel for the Abbey Guest House completed, the Knutson Construction Services of Minneapolis has begun construction of the Guest House itself. On October 10 the heavy construction equipment arrived on campus and the sounds of roaring motors and backup beeps are heard in the land. The digging and pouring of cement for the footings of the building was begun. The footings were in place before the arrival of the winter cold and the construction of the building itself, somewhat modified to meet budget figures, is now in progress. Architect Vincent James of the Vincent James Associates Architects, Minneapolis, assures us that completion of the Abbey Guest House can be expected in the fall of 2006. Note: You may follow the Abbey Guest House construction progress by checking the daily webcam at http://guesthousecam.saintjohnsabbey. org/ + Geoffrey Fecht, OSB, is the development director of Saint John’s Abbey. The Abbey Banner Winter 2005 page 25
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