| WHAT: | Quasten Award and Lecture: "Liturgy Characterized by Logos: Romans 12: 1-2 in Paul, Patristics, and Liturgy Today." |
| WHEN: | Tuesday, Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The Catholic University of America Caldwell Hall, Monsignor Stephen P. Happel Room 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, D.C. |
| DETAILS: | Rev. Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., of the Pontificio Ateneo Sant' Anselmo in Rome and Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Ore., will receive Catholic University's Annual Johannes Quasten Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in Religious Studies. Afterward he will deliver a lecture titled "Liturgy Characterized by Logos: Romans 12: 1-2 in Paul, Patristics, and Liturgy Today." Father Driscoll, also a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio, has been a Benedictine monk of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon since 1973. He has taught theology at Mount Angel Seminary since 1983, and since 1994 he has also been teaching a semester each year at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. In 2002 he was named an adviser to the Vox Clara Commission for the Congregation for Divine Worship at the Vatican. In 2004 he was named a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. In 2005 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship. He is the author of 15 scholarly articles and several books including "Theology at the Eucharistic Table, Master Themes in the Theological Tradition," "What Happens at Mass," three volumes of poetry, and a recent collection of poetic essays called "A Monk's Alphabet, Moments of Stillness in a Turning World." Ordained a priest in 1981, he earned an S.T.L. in patristics in 1983 from the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome. In 1990 he was awarded an S.T.D. from Sant'Anselmo. The award ceremony and lecture are free and open to the public. For more information about the events, call 202-319-5684. Refreshments will be provided following the lecture. |
| SPONSOR: | School of Theology and Religious Studies |