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December 2, 2020 | Communications Office

Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Response St. Norbert Abbey Status Effective March 20, Community prayer, including Sunday and Daily Mass will be closed to outside public until further notice. All retreats, groups, private retreatants, support groups, and spiritual direction hosted at the Norbertine Center for Spirituality are canceled or postponed until…

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November 16, 2020 | Communications Office

Fr. Brendan John McKeough, O. Praem.,

Father Brendan John McKeough, O. Praem., age 98, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, WI, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on November 13, 2020. God blessed him with a full and happy life.

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October 25, 2020 | Communications Office

Fr. Alfred Aloysius McBride, O. Praem.

Father Alfred Aloysius McBride, O. Praem., age 91, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, WI, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on October 23, 2020.

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September 17, 2020 | Communications Office

Fr. Rowland Charles De Peaux, O. Praem.

Father Rowland Charles De Peaux, O. Praem., age 94, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, WI, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on September 16, 2020.

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August 25, 2020 | Communications Office

Livestreamed Events

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, St. Norbert Abbey will not be publicly hosting festivities for the Feast of St. Augustine on August 28, 2020. We will be vesting two novices on August 27, 2020, and one Norberine will profess his simple vows on August 28, 2020.

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February 3, 2020 | Communications Office

Fr. Samuel Donald Jadin, O. Praem.,

Fr. Samuel Donald Jadin, O. Praem., age 89, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on February 2, 2020.

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January 4, 2020 | Communications Office

Fr. Brian John Prunty, O. Praem.

Father Brian John Prunty, O. Praem., age 83, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on January 4, 2020.

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December 20, 2019 | Communications Office

The Joys of Religious Life

By Fr. Stephen James Rossey, O. Praem. Fr. Stephen Rossey, O. Praem. Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B., in her 2017 book Radical Spirit, suggests that communio in religious life is built on relationships, not on simply living alone together. In my 66 years of religious life, I have found this…

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October 3, 2019 | prior

Sebastian Robert Schalk, O. Praem.

December 6, 1923 – October 3, 2019 Sebastian Robert Schalk, O. Praem., age 95, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, WI, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on October 3, 2019.

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March 13, 2019 | johnathan.turba

Angelo Joseph Feldkamp, O. Praem.

May 3, 1942 – March 12, 2019 | Angelo Joseph Feldkamp, O. Praem., age 76, a member of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, WI, and a Norbertine priest, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on 12 March 2019.

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