Tag: memorial

The Maurist Congregation – 19 January

Abbot and monk.
Monastic Tradition: St. Benedict entrusts the Rule to his disciple, Maurus.

The Congregation of Solesmes is a direct descendant of the celebrated Maurist Congregation (1618-1818) of ascetics and scholars at St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, where the Benedictine historian and inventor of paleography, Dom Jean Mabillon OSB (1632-1707) lies buried.  “Mabillon” is the nearby Parisian Metro station that bears his name.

John Paul McDonald translated and published the influential Treatise on Monastic Studies written by Mabillon in 1691 in response to De la sainté et des devoirs de la vie monastique, a provocative essay by Dom Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626-1700), the stern, reforming Cistercian Abbot of La Trappe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurist

1916 Easter Uprising 2016

Artists and Poets
Centennial Commemoration, Callan Lab Theater, CUA.

Last night, 20 April 2016, I attended a commemoration in poetry and song at The Catholic University of America honoring the Easter Rising.  Her Excellency Anne Anderson, 17th Irish Ambassador to the U.S., launched the evening with two short contemporary poems.

Coilin Owens
Coilin Owens (l.), Joyce scholar. and Michael Whelan, poet.

Dr. Coilin Owens concluded the event discussing the aftereffects and lingering significance of the Easter Rising 1916.

“I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
–W.B. Yeats, From “Easter 1916.”

Remember the Titanic, 14-15 April 1912

Memorial
Women’s Titanic Memorial

The Patriot II took its passengers near the Women’s Titanic Memorial that commemorates the male passengers and crew who lost their lives at the sinking of the RMS Titanic so that women and children could survive. It is located on the Southwest waterfront beside Fort McNair.

The same person with whom I was taking the cruise had joined me four years earlier for a special evening ceremony honoring the sad event’s centennial in 2012.