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The Justice and Respect for All Project: Immigrants, Refugees, and the Constitution
No full textJoin us as we review the constitutional and social contexts of a CSB/SJU initiative, “The Justice and Respect for All Project,” with billboard and radio communication to the public. This session offers a workshop opportunity to think about what how the U.S. Constitution guides a community with a commitment to justice and respect, and to hear about these tangible manifestations of that commitment. How do our conversations, readings, decisions, actions and gestures of welcome contribute to the work of constructing a just, respectful environment for all
Ancestor Veneration in Benedictine Monasticism
No full textCatholic monasteries enlist formal and informal means of recalling their predecessors to mind. After reviewing the research domain of ancestor veneration in the anthropology of religion, this investigation foregrounds Benedictine monasticism generally, then specifically the Abbey of Saint John the Baptist in Collegeville, Minnesota, USA, emphasizing liturgical/ritual associations, shrines, relics, storytelling/reminiscing, the communion of saints, and the memorial and organizational properties of monastic cemeteries.
Ancestor veneration in some form was prevalent even among many of the very earliest human societies. Remembered as “real people” by those among the living with closer genealogical ties, their personalities are often selectively “constructed” postmortem by relatives of greater generational distance. Some of the cherished memories of ancestors are comforting and even flattering, while others are humorous and outrageous and others may be downright demeaning and even punitive. Whatever the regard in which they are held, the living rarely have a neutral opinion about those who have gone before them. Revered as moral models and even founders of important bloodlines among their successors, they may just as readily take on the characteristics of malevolent “ghosts,” demanding offerings and obeisance from their descendants, threatening misfortune and illness should their living relatives dare to forget or disregard them. Such is a typical summary anthropologists might provide about attitudes toward ancestors, generalizations gleaned from many and varied cross-cultural ethnographic accounts, and even from the reconstructed data of archaeological excavation. But ancestors populate monasteries as well, even though the ties that bind the dead to the living in these settings are not (usually) those of blood relationship. In fact, every monastic community of men and women has ways—formal and informal—of recalling their predecessors to mind. Thus stretching the anthropological notion of ancestor veneration a bit allows us to explore “collective memory”—the various methods monastics use to recall earlier community members, and make them tangible and dynamic in their midst once again. This paper will explore ancestor veneration in Benedictine monasticism in eight different sections: (1) the introduction; (2) a review of ancestor veneration in the anthropology of religion; (3) an overview of Benedictine monastic ancestor veneration; (4) liturgical and ritual memorials; (5) commemorative shrines—photographs and relics in the form of material artifacts closely associated with the deceased; (6) storytelling and reminiscing; (7) shrines at the common table; and (8) the memorial and organizational properties of monastic cemeteries
Are You Ready for Busy Season?
Get PDFAs students, we hear a lot about busy season from recruiters and professors. From that, we get ideas about busy season might be like. Personally, during finals week I wondered if I was experiencing a compact version of busy season. This lead me to develop my specific research question: “How do the habits CPAs during busy season compare to habits of accounting students during finals week?” My research aims at determining if the expectations we develop about busy season are accurate based on our experiences as students
The Heart of the Matter: The Value of a Liberal Arts Education
Get PDFSixty-six students from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u27s University were invited into the Theta of Minnesota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at CSB and SJU. The students were inducted into the chapter during a ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, at Alumnae Hall, CSB; this event was followed by an invitation-only gala banquet for Phi Beta Kappa members and their guests in room 204, Gorecki Center, CSB.
SJU junior Alex Seefeldt performed an original piano composition during the processional. CSB/SJU Provost Richard Ice gave welcoming remarks, and Laura Taylor, assistant professor of theology at CSB and SJU who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, delivered the keynote address, “The Heart of the Matter: The Value of a Liberal Arts Education.”
Kathryn Enke, chief of staff to CSB President Mary Dana Hinton, was inducted into the Theta of Minnesota Chapter as a CSB alumna member. SJU President Michael Hemesath was also present at the ceremony.
A total of 54 seniors and 12 juniors were selected by faculty members at CSB and SJU who are members of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation\u27s oldest academic honor society (founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Virginia). There are 40 students from CSB and 26 from SJU in this year\u27s group.
Students are chosen based on their grade-point average (3.85 for juniors, 3.65 for seniors) and must be a liberal arts and/or sciences major. The selection committee also looked at the breadth and depth of the student\u27s program and other achievements, such as a thesis or other research; interest in other cultures or languages; extracurricular activities; and academic performance.
This is the eighth group of students who have been inducted into the chapter. Delegates from more than 200 chapters and associations of Phi Beta Kappa voted to establish the chapter at CSB and SJU Oct. 2, 2009, during their Triennial Council in Austin, Texas.
The CSB and SJU chapter was the eighth Phi Beta Kappa chapter established in Minnesota and was named \u27Theta\u27 after the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet
