Kilian mcdonnell biography
Collegeville Institute Greats: Fr. Kilian McDonnell, Part One!
Collegeville Institute Greats: Fr. Kilian McDonnell, Part One
As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary, Bearings Online is highlighting profiles of persons closely associated with Collegeville Institute’s history—that great cloud of witnesses who have accompanied us since 1967, and will journey with us into the future.
When Fr.
Kilian McDonnell, OSB, turned 96 on September 16, he had spent 25,956 days seeking God as a monk of Saint John’s Abbey, where he made his first profession on August 24, 1946.
Kilian mcdonnell biography
What McDonnell has accomplished as scholar, teacher, ecumenical visionary, and poet can be traced back to, and is held together by, his monastic calling.
When in the late 1950s the theology department at Saint John’s University discussed whether to teach its Catholic students some Protestant theology, McDonnell voted against the proposal on the grounds that they did not have enough time to teach the Catholic students Catholic theology.
The resolution passed. Then the faculty look