Worship and Work:
Skillin, Edward S
In Brief Worship and Work , by Colman Barry, O.S.B. Liturgical Press, $12.50, 526 pp. The way a small primitive German Benedictine missionary settlement in the wilds of Minnesota in 1856 grew to...
...John's has been responding to "the signs of the times...
...This was a period of such achievements as great expansion of the university, pioneering in ecumenism, and the establishing of the world-acclaimed international film library of precious manuscripts from all over the world-a present-day form of the scholarly labors of the monks back in the Dark Ages...
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...The way a small primitive German Benedictine missionary settlement in the wilds of Minnesota in 1856 grew to become a large, influential monastery with offshoots in several foreign lands and eminent St...
...This was sparked by Virgil Michel, whose response to what he encountered in the great Benedictine abbeys of Belgium, France, Austria, and Germany was the conviction that indeed the liturgy is ' 'the primary and indispensable source of the true Christian spirit...
...But, confronted with the wasteland of a morale-shattered world, and somewhat reduced in numbers, the abbey of St...
...His efforts, in concert with those of his colleagues, led to Vatican II, Mass in the vernacular, and the active participation of the people of God in the prayer life of the Catholic church...
...The volume as a whole touches on a wide range of achievements in the field of action as well as the quality of the monks' interior life...
...The 1980 edition of Worship and Work concludes with a comparably informative Epilogue in which Colman Barry shows how in recent years St...
...John's part in the founding of the liturgical movement in the United States...
...John's University makes an absorbing story...
...edward s. skillin...
...The author says that "the main thrust of the community was inward...
...For me, the key event in Colman Barry's highly readable and documented account of the community's first hundred years is St...
...John's is intent on spiritual renewal...
...In the later years of his short life Virgil Michel also became justly known for his emphasis on Christian social action, on the inescapable social implications of the Mass and liturgy...
Vol. 108 • March 1981 • No. 6
