Saturday, May 14, 2022 can be seen from the Serra International Serra Meets Abbot Jeremy Driscoll presenting The Seven Rich Ways when available on UTUBE. . The seven ways of Benedictine spirituality, ways that are lived in the monastery and offered as guidelines for life to the faithful. Living these ways is powerful, humanizing, and an antidote to the turmoil, confusion and division we experience in society today
Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B. has been a Benedictine monk of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon since 1973. He was ordained a priest in 1981. In 1983 he earned an S.T.L. in patristics from the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome. He has been teaching theology in Mount Angel Seminary since then. Meanwhile, in 1990 he was awarded an S.T.D., summacumlaude, from the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo in Rome, where he distinguished himself with an original thesis on Evagrius Ponticus. He has published four books on Evagrius and some fifteen scholarly articles on Evagrius and related topics in ancient Egyptian monasticism. Numerous other articles treat other patristic topics. Since 1994 he has also been teaching a semester each year at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. Father Jeremy has also written widely on liturgical questions. A collection of his studies, Theology at the Eucharistic Table, Master Themes in the Theological Tradition, was published by Studia Anselmiana and Gracewing in 2004. In 2005 his popular book on the Eucharist, called What Happens at Mass, was published by Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago. It has since been translated into Italian, Polish, and Hungarian. In 2004 he was named an associate member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, and in 2010 he was named an “ordinarius” of the same Academy. In 2005 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship for a five year term. In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI renewed this appointment for another five years, and in 2015 Pope Francis did the same.. In addition, Father Jeremy is appreciated nationally and internationally as a lecturer. For example, he spoke at national symposiums on the Catechism of the Catholic Church in Portland and Atlanta. He gave the keynote address for a large Protestant convention in Honolulu. Internationally he addressed the World Congress of Benedictine Abbots in Rome in 1996. He has spoken at study days for the bishops and priests of Umbria in Todi, Italy. In 1999 he spoke at the first International Congress on Cappadocian Monasticism in Istanbul and Kayseri, Turkey. In 2011 Catholic University of America conferred on him its highest award for theological excellence, the Johannes Quasten award. He is regularly invited to speak at various venues in Rome. His latest theology book, published in February of 2019 is Awesome Glory, Resurrection in Scripture, Liturgy, and Theology. Finally, he has also published three books of poetry in addition to a recent collection of poetic essays called A Monk’s Alphabet, Moments of Stillness in a Turning World. On March 12, 2016 he was elected the twelfth abbot of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.
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