OSBs, OSBs everywhere

[TheresaThoma]

Wonderful! God is so good!

[Luigi]

News from Belmont Abbey (Mary, Help of Christians) outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Posted on Facebook 13 July, 2015: 

"We have two exciting updates to announce. First, on July 11, Novice James Raber made his first profession of vows today as the community celebrated the Feast of Saint Benedict. Second, on July 10, Mr. Ronald Basque, who has lived with the community as a postulant for several months, was invested as a novice at Vespers and received the name Brother Augustine. Photos will be posted soon!" 

Belmont has had a pretty steady stream of vocations in the last five or six years. 

[Luigi]

News from St. Meinrad's Archabbey in Indiana: 

Br. Luke Waugh, OSB, ordained a priest

June 08, 2015

Fr. Luke Waugh, OSB, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on Sunday, June 7, 2015, by the Most Rev. Joseph Tobin, CSsR, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

The ordination was held in Saint Meinrad's Archabbey Church, St. Meinrad, IN.

Fr. Luke, 50, was born in Weston, WV, where he attended Lewis County High School. He was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Salem, VA. He graduated from Radford University in Radford, VA, and worked in information technology for a company in Roanoke, VA.

He joined the monastery in 2009 and professed his solemn vows in 2014. Fr. Luke received his Master of Divinity degree from Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in May.

He was recently named the director of enrollment for the Seminary and School of Theology and he is an assistant to the oblate director for Saint Meinrad's Benedictine oblate program.

Photo: Fr. Luke Waugh, OSB, (right) kneels before Archbishop Joseph Tobin, CSsR, during the ordination ceremony.

[Starets]

Our Novice made his Simple Profession a couple weeks ago. In three years he will be eligilbe to make his Solemn Profession. We have three Juniors, myself included, and a Postulant.