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Monday, May 31, 2021

DISCERNING A VOCATION

 This video focuses on Benedictine Arch abbey, Saint Meinrad in southern Indiana. When I was vocation director p, we used their college seminary for seminarians and before that, we used their major seminary for some of our men.

It is a beautiful and serene German area of Indiana. I’ve been there many times. 

Their magnificent pre-Vatican chapel underwent a horrible wreckovation in the early 70’s. Since that time there have been several renovations to improve that scandalous disaster but all attempts, while an improvement, disastrously  fell short.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The video inspires one question. Do the monks of St. Meinrad have an altar in their wreckovated archabbey church?

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Yes! And they have yet to remediate this particularly scandalous disaster. It is in the nave immediately in front of the entrance doors! Yes you read that correctly.

Anonymous said...

I don't see the high altar or anything Roman Catholic about this church, the outside is more than stunning but what in God's name happened inside??? Wreckovation at it's worst.