Ceremonial for blessing of first Abbot

The full ceremonial for the blessing of the first Abbot of Glenstal Joseph Dowdall by Bishop Jeremiah Kinane, D.D.

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Monastery
Glenstal Abbey, Murroe
Subject
Monastery, Monks, Religious Life
Creator
Glenstal Abbey
Place
Murroe, Limerick, Cashel Diocese, Diocese of Cashel
Language
English
Priors
Bernard o Dea, Bernard O' Dea

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  • grace through unworthiness of his .
  • with favour on this thy servant . With the help of thy grace
  • O Creator and Saviour of mankind . Given of spiritual grace .
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ment , no small profit accrued to the Church and people of God . It seems fitting them to advance this house of Glenstal of the Order of St. Benedict to the honour of an Abbev. so that , in a recommendation of the Sacred Congregation of Religious , by our were created bishops , and nurtured the Rock of the faithful : ingly erect the the Conventual Priory of Saints Joseph and of the Blessed Virgin Mary , of the Order of St. Benedict , pet- The Apostolic Brief Insula Sanctorum of His Holiness Pope Columba of Glenstal be raised to that dignity . In accordance with our own affection for the sons of St. Benedict , and on the Belonging as it does to the Belgian Congregation under the title Columba established in Glenstal , into an Abbey in perpetuity . the Belgian Congregation , under the title of the Annunciation itioned us that the Conventual Priory of Saints Joseph and Apostolic authority , and in virtue of the present letter , we will- furthermore , monks many of them saints used to go abroad frontiers of Christ's kingdom , bringing the light of the Gospel years , that which had perished , might be restored . country formerly famous for such monasteries , at last after many trine . However , in evil days , its religious houses under the rule honour of Saints Joseph and Columbia in Ireland , at the site known Our beloved son then , Theodore Neve , Abbot-President of from the monasteries of Ireland to extend on every side of the of Abbots came to an end in that island . Now , in recent times the sons of St. Benedict from Belgium established a house in of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the same as Glenstal , from which in the course of its successful develop- monastic life . In ancient times , the Abbots of monasteries there granted to the Abbeys of the same religious Congregation , and Pius XII , by which Glenstal was erected into an Abbey . Order , we grant it participation in all the rights and privileges renown as an incompatible foster-mother of virtue and of doc- we permit the Chapter of the Abbey now erected by us to elect In this matter , the family of St. Benedict acquired fame and and rightly so - is renowned especially for the glory of her principally to those countries which were still shrouded in the dark night of error . Ireland , the " Island of Saints " as she is commonly called- the first Abbot . Contrariis , etc. , Given under the seal of the Fichoman Tounum in 1944

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