Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, Benedictine monk at St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN, died yesterday, Friday, February 22, at 2:20 P.M. CST. The funeral will be at the Abbey church on Wednesday.
Godfrey Diekmann, OSB ‘23
St. Martin, MN; Collegeville, MN, Teacher, theologian, author, editor, mycologist, monk, had a significant worldwide influence on the Church's liturgical movement pre- and post-Vatican II.
Godfrey was one of the U.S. periti at the Second Vatican Council. (While he is known by most everyone today as a "liturgical scholar," actually his lifelong field of academic endeavor was patristic theology.)
In the 1980's and 1990's the bishops of the United States had several week–long meetings in the summer at Collegeville. I had many memorable conversations with Godfrey in those years. Most delightful were his accounts of looking for wild watercress and morels in the woods around Saint John's!
Pope John Paul II said Mass for Father Godfrey in his private chapel the next morning.
So Godfrey has been in my thoughts for the past week. He won't need to sing or play my music, however. His thirst has been satisfied.
Godfrey Diekmann, OSB ‘23
St. Martin, MN; Collegeville, MN, Teacher, theologian, author, editor, mycologist, monk, had a significant worldwide influence on the Church's liturgical movement pre- and post-Vatican II.
Godfrey was one of the U.S. periti at the Second Vatican Council. (While he is known by most everyone today as a "liturgical scholar," actually his lifelong field of academic endeavor was patristic theology.)
In the 1980's and 1990's the bishops of the United States had several week–long meetings in the summer at Collegeville. I had many memorable conversations with Godfrey in those years. Most delightful were his accounts of looking for wild watercress and morels in the woods around Saint John's!
Pope John Paul II said Mass for Father Godfrey in his private chapel the next morning.
So Godfrey has been in my thoughts for the past week. He won't need to sing or play my music, however. His thirst has been satisfied.
Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, Benedictine monk at St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN, died yesterday, Friday, February 22, at 2:20 P.M. CST. The funeral will be at the Abbey church on Wednesday.
Godfrey Diekmann, OSB ‘23
St. Martin, MN; Collegeville, MN, Teacher, theologian, author, editor, mycologist, monk, had a significant worldwide influence on the Church's liturgical movement pre- and post-Vatican II.
Godfrey was one of the U.S. periti at the Second Vatican Council. (While he is known by most everyone today as a "liturgical scholar," actually his lifelong field of academic endeavor was patristic theology.)
In the 1980's and 1990's the bishops of the United States had several week–long meetings in the summer at Collegeville. I had many memorable conversations with Godfrey in those years. Most delightful were his accounts of looking for wild watercress and morels in the woods around Saint John's!
Pope John Paul II said Mass for Father Godfrey in his private chapel the next morning.
So Godfrey has been in my thoughts for the past week. He won't need to sing or play my music, however. His thirst has been satisfied.
Godfrey Diekmann, OSB ‘23
St. Martin, MN; Collegeville, MN, Teacher, theologian, author, editor, mycologist, monk, had a significant worldwide influence on the Church's liturgical movement pre- and post-Vatican II.
Godfrey was one of the U.S. periti at the Second Vatican Council. (While he is known by most everyone today as a "liturgical scholar," actually his lifelong field of academic endeavor was patristic theology.)
In the 1980's and 1990's the bishops of the United States had several week–long meetings in the summer at Collegeville. I had many memorable conversations with Godfrey in those years. Most delightful were his accounts of looking for wild watercress and morels in the woods around Saint John's!
Pope John Paul II said Mass for Father Godfrey in his private chapel the next morning.
So Godfrey has been in my thoughts for the past week. He won't need to sing or play my music, however. His thirst has been satisfied.
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