Saint John’s University Presidential Inauguration

Live Broadcast
(2:30-4:30 p.m. CT)

The Board of Regents of Saint Johns University, Collegeville, Minn.
 is pleased to announce the Inauguration of
Father Robert J. Koopmann, OSB
as the Twelfth President of Saint Johns University

Thursday, October 1, 2009
2:30 p.m.
Inauguration Ceremony
Saint John’s Abbey Church

Reception follows in Guild Hall

12 p.m. “ Celebration of the Eucharist — Live Broadcast
Bishop John Kinney, presiding
2 p.m. “ Inauguration Prelude Music — Live Broadcast
Saint Johns Abbey Church

The Celebration of the Eucharist and Inauguration Ceremony will be live streamed on the Inauguration Web site.

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Inauguration Image

“Life in Community” from The Saint John’s Bible

Life in Community (Acts 4:32“35)

This image portrays the fellowship and unity of Christians. Forming a semicircle with the Virgin Mary at the center, symbolizing the Church, people of many nationalities are gathered around a common table, with the Holy Scriptures and the Eucharist, elements of Christianity that unite them. In the background, a small chapel on the grounds of Saint Johns Abbey (left) and the Abbey Church (right) indicate the physical nature of the church community: people must be physically present together in order to become a true “church or assembly. Encircling this scene, the words from Acts describe an ideal Christian community, when in fact the early church was disorganized and argumentative.

The figures of the Virgin Mary, Christ, and the angels resemble traditional representations used in Greek and Russian Orthodox icons.

Life in Community, Aidan Hart in collaboration with Donald Jackson, 2002 The Saint Johns Bible, Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, 1993, 1998 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: One Year Ago – October 1, 2008

After the Primary Election: Day 22

One year ago today, on the 22nd day after losing my 2008 primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, in line with my focus on national security, I reported on the growing Taliban influence in Pakistan, a missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone in the northwest Pakistan tribal region near the Afghan border, ongoing violence in Iraq, and the reduction of U.S. military deaths in Iraq as Iraqi security forces increasingly take the lead in counterinsurgency operations.