Requiescat in Pace

Father Conan E. Feigh, O.S.B., a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey, died Friday, June 4, 2010. He was born June 12, 1930 in Carrolltown, Pennsylvania. He was a son of the late Margaret (Lonergan) Feigh and the late Charles A. Feigh.

Surviving are one brother and two sisters, Thomas Feigh of St. Marys, Cecilia (Feigh) Knapp of Dover, Delaware, and Suzanne (Feigh) Cronan of Carrolltown. He was predeceased by a sister, Marjorie (Feigh) Mikula. Father Conan attended Saint Benedict Parochial School, Carrolltown, and is a 1948 graduate of Saint Vincent Preparatory School. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1953 from Saint Vincent College and a master of education degree in 1969 from Penn State University. He received a master of divinity degree from Saint Vincent Seminary in 1974.

Father Conan made his simple profession of vows on July 2, 1951, and solemn profession of vows on July 11, 1954, at Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica. He was ordained a priest on May 26, 1957 by the late Bishop Hugh Lamb, D.D., at the Archabbey Basilica.

He served the monastic community in the parish apostolates, at Saint Bruno, South Greensburg (1957-1960); Sacred Heart, St. Marys (1960-1964) and at Sacred Heart, Jeannette (1964-1965). While at St. Marys, he also served on the faculty of Elk County Christian High School. Father Conan worked in Guidance/Placement at Saint Vincent College (1965-1970), was registrar at the college from 1971-1977; and prior and headmaster at Benedictine Priory and School, Savannah, Georgia (1977-1987). He also served on the Archabbey Council of Seniors (1966-1977) and the Board of Directors of Saint Vincent College (1970-1975, 1988-1995, 2000-2010). He was a campus minister at Penn State University, University Park, from 1987 to 2002, when he was named director of the Monastery Infirmary.

Father Conan was a 4th Degree member of the Knights of Columbus, Savannah Council 5588. In 1990 he was awarded the Benedictine Medal of Excellence from Benedictine Military School, Savannah.

The body of Father Conan will be received at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 5, at the Elizabeth J. Roderick Center at Saint Vincent, followed by viewing from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The body will be transferred to the Basilica for the vigil service at 7:15 p.m. Sunday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 7, 2010 by Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., in the Archabbey Basilica, followed by interment in the Saint Vincent Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Benedictine Health and Welfare Fund, 300 Fraser Purchase Road, Latrobe, PA 15650.

Father Son Retreat 2010

JULY 30 - AUGUST 1, 2010

 

Come spend a weekend of spiritual training at the Benedictine Abbey that hosts an NFL training camp each summer. Bring your football, training shoes, Bible and Rosary. Expect to start each day early as we join the Benedictine team at morning prayer and Mass. After a hearty meal at our Abbey's training tables, we plan to learn about the Catholic game plan for our life from the Scriptures and the Rule of Saint Benedict. For all fathers and sons who desire time away to grow spiritually and as a family team. The weekend will provide time for retreat conference talks, confession, rosary, personal reflection and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. There will also be time for sports activities and hopefully a chance to watch the Steelers during their training camp.

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Memorial Day 2010

Let us always remember the men and women who serve and have served in our nations armed forces.  Here is a interesting video on the origins of Taps.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863

“The purpose of all war is peace.” – St. Augustine

Our Brother Bonaventure becomes a Father again!!!

Father Archabbot Douglas poses with our Bishop Lawrence Brandt and our Father Bonaventure, OSB

 

 

Father Bonaventure poses with his three daughters after the ordination

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Scott Hahn 2010 Summer Conference at St. Vincent

 

Priests, deacons and seminarians are invited to spend four days reflecting on the “Gospel & Sacraments: Reading and Proclaming the Gospel of John,” with Dr. Scott Hahn, June 14-18, 2010 on the grounds of Saint Vincent Archabbey and Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hahn will once again be joined by other noted scholars, including Dr. Brant Pitre of Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, and Dr. John Bergsma of Franciscan University of Steubenville. The days will be filled with discovery, in a leisurely, but stimulating environment. It’s an opportunity for clergy to contemplate the Scriptures more deeply—for prayer, for preaching, and for understanding.

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