Category: 2009 News

The Saint Vincent Schola Gregoriana will join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Manfred Honeck and The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh for three performances of the “Requiem Mass For Mozart” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, December 4-6, at Heinz Hall. Twelve college students, parishioners from Saint Vincent Basilica Parish and seminarians […]

A special ornament created in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Saint Vincent founder Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., is now available. The images on the ornament reflect the life and important influences of Boniface Wimmer and his mission to America. The collage was designed by Father Vincent de Paul Crosby, O.S.B. The coat […]

Father Robert J. Roche, O.S.B., of Saint Vincent Archabbey, will host an advent program, Lunch with the Lord, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays during Advent. The free program will be held Nov. 27 (Friday), Dec. 3, 10 and 17 in the Saint Vincent Parish Center Assembly Room. Father Robert studied at Xaverian College, an […]

Members of the Saint Vincent Archabbey, College, and Seminary and Parish communities are preparing to close the yearlong celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Founder Boniface Wimmer with a solemn Mass celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Justin Rigali on Thursday, November 19. The Mass will be held at the Saint Vincent Archabbey […]

Saint Vincent Gristmill Museum, Beatty Road, Unity Township, will host an exhibit, “Artisans of the Monastery,” October 22 through November 6. The show will feature multimedia art by monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Gristmill Museum. The reception will […]

The twelfth ornament in a series portraying aspects of the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica is now available in the Basilica Gift Shop, first floor of the Parish Center, adjacent to the Archabbey Basilica. The 2009 ornament is a miniature replica of the Good Shepherd window in the Archabbey Basilica. In this window, Jesus is holding […]

Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B, author and professor, will speak at the annual lecture for the Saint Benedict Education Foundation to be held on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fred M. Rogers Center. Driscoll is a priest and monk of Mount Angel Abbey in St. Benedict, Ore., and is a professor of theology […]

Kevin Passarello, Esq. will be the keynote speaker at the forty-second annual Red Mass sponsored by the Diocese of Greensburg and Saint Vincent Archabbey, College and Seminary. On Friday, Sept. 18, at noon, Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of Greensburg and Archabbot Douglas Nowicki, O.S.B, of Saint Vincent will celebrate the Red Mass at the Saint […]

Link to NPR piece on the Gristmill Saint Vincent Gristmill On Sunday, August 2, 2009, Weekend Edition host Liane Hansen of National Public Radio will profile the first Benedictine monastery in America. Weekend Edition: Sunday Morning is carried locally on WDUQ, 90.5 FM, and airs from 8 to 10 a.m. The segement on the Gristmill […]