Saturday, April 11, 1992 @

Father’s passing has 700 mourners gathe

Thus a seminary wing with
student schools and residence
was built, as well as the Pfitzer
memorial Bell Tower, visible
and audible for miles around
the Fraser Valley, together
with a gymnasium and the
now. internationally famous
Abbey Church, begun in 1979
and consecrated in 1982 by
Cardinal Hume, Archbishop of
Westminster.

Despite the extended period
ofthe construction, all have a
harmony of design a conse-
quence of a vigorous relation-
ship between the famous ar-
chitect Asbjorn Gathe and Fa-
ther Abbot, while much of the
work has been carried out the
the monks themselves.

When I asked one of them
how such a small community
had been able to achieve so
much, he answered: “By doing
not so much what we can do
but what we have to do.”

It is a tribute to their faith
and the dedication of their Ab-
bot.

Equally important to the
monastic community’s well-be-

ing were Father Abbot's count-
less day-to-day decisions by
which, with clear-headed de-
termination, he steered a way
through the turbulent waters

of the post-Vatican II period of
numerical decline invocations.
In consequence the monas-

tic family of Westminster
Abbey emerged more numer-
ous than it was in 1965, while
the crowning success of his
leadership came in this past
year with the ordination of
he seminary

nine priests from

out through the great doors,
past the beds of hybrid narcis-
si, heather and multi-hued
flowering trees and shrubs and
down the hill to the Abbey
cemetery, while six monks car-
ried the traditional plain pine
coffin built by cabinet maker,
Brother Peter. Here, in a grave
dug by veteran Brother
Stephen and other monks,
they lowered the remains of
their abbot, using ropes, to its
last resting place where it will

lie quietly beneath a simple
stone marker among the oth-
er members of the community
who have gone before.

After 10 years of teaching at
the monastery I have become
one of the multitude of ad-
mires of this remarkable,
charming but essentially hu-
man man of whom one old
friends said with a chuckle:
“He was one tough cookie but a
helluva Abbot.”

Truly, as one newspaper

headline notes, ‘His death
marks the end of an era’. We
shall not see his like soon
again.
Today, Saturday, under
much more threatening skies,
life at the monastery moved
back into its. 1,500-year-old
traditional frame of Benedic-
tine Serenity. The only out-
ward sign of Father Abbot's
passing is the flag by the gym
flying (correctly) at half mast
and the new mounded grave in

ring for last prayer

the shadow of the pine tree in
the cemetery.

~ Meanwhile the junior and

senior Seminarians, reading
for their long awaited mini-
olympics and ignoring the
threat of rain, are marching
out to the playing fields with
shouts and banners, trumpets,
and drums, for this is a new
day and there will be a celebri-
ty wiener-roast at the end of it.

Requieseat in peace, Father
Abbot!

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of Christ the King. ;

The Funeral Mass, held on
Friday afternoon under a
cloud-scattered sky, was fit-
tingly splendid.

Almost 700 mourners at-
tended — clergy, nuns, family
and laity — including former
seminarian, His Excellency
Bishop Peter Mallon of nelson,
and His Grace Archbishop
Adam Exner from Vancouver,
and many other high-ranking
officials.

inent among these
was Ukrainian Orthodox Bish-
op Lazar Rehalo from the re-
cently founded All Saints
Monastery in Dewdney.

Rector, the Very Reverend
Father Augustine delivered
the homily, while the
Prior, the Very Reverend Fa-
ther Wilfrid celebrated the
Mass, assisted by some 760
celebrants and a special semi-
narian choir.

- Apoignant moment came at
the mid-point of the celebra-
tion when the sun broke

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Ed Mills

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ATOM

CHAMPS

The Castlegar
Bruins, the Tier 1
Atom champs
are: Stacy
Bublitz, Hayden
Hillier, Dan and
Mark
Chernenkoff,
Craig Davis, Paul
Oster, Brian
Watt, Jason
Quiding, Shand
Fowlie, Mathew
Bragg, Nicholas
Baal, Kyle
Hurford, Dennis
Podovennikoff
and coaches Bob
Watt and Tim
Keraiff.

DART -A-
THON

Dart players can
hit a bull’s-eye
o arity in the
Dart-a-thon at
Dexters Pub in
the Sandman Inn
Sunday, April 26.
All proceeds of
the event will be
donated to the
Muscular
Dystrophy
Association. For
more information
and to register
phone Lee Boyer
at Dexters Pub.

For the second year in a row,

Castlegar Realty has swept the
championships. in both West

Kootenay
leagues.
“That’s the double-double,” said
Realty’s Wayne McCarthy as he
headed into the locker room at the

men’s _ basketball

Cominco Gym Wednesday night

just after Realty completed the

sweep by winning the Trail Men’s
League title. :
Brian Turlock — one of four

/

News photo by Ed Mills

Castlegar Realty’s Greg Larson (Left) and Wayne Tamelin (ri i
} E right) squeeze out Rock Island’ yte i
the Trail Men’s Basketball League Charnpionship at the Cones Gun in Trail Wednesday night.” glides

Sweep! Sweep!

Ed Mills
SPORTS EDITOR

players who played on both Realty
teams this season — led Castlegar
with 15 points in a 57-52 victory
over Rock Island Tape Center.

McCarthy, Lou Cicchetti and
Wayne Tamelin also played for
Realty’s team in the Kootenay
West League, which they won in
March.

Against Rock Island, Castlegar
stuck to its aggressive, intimi-
dating style that carried it to a 5-0
record in the playoffs.

“They shut me down. After I
passed the ball; I never saw it
again,” said Rock Island’s Mark
MacConnell,.

MacConnell — who got similar
treatment as a member of the
Selkirk College team that Realty
beat in the KWMBL final — led
the Trail league in scoring during
the regular season, but was held
to 10 points Wednesday.

Barry Baker led Rock Island
with 18.points, while Jodi Whyte
had 12.

McCarthy had 12 points and
Cicchetti had seven an Canticgnr
overcame a 30-26 halftime deficit.

The story inside the story was
the league’s oldest player, 53-year
-old Len Lippa who picked up two
points in the championship win,
his second with Realty.

Then there was 23-year-old
for Selkirk College in the KWMBL
— who, prior to the game, paid a
local merchant to crest a
Castlegar Realty hat with the
words ‘League Champions’. —

Larson, who had eight points,
pulled the hat out of his gym bag
just after the game was over.

“I played them (Realty) in the
other league, I knew they were
going to come through,” Larson
said.

“They weren’t supposed to win
there (in the KWMBL), either, but
when the pressure’s on these guys
come through.”

Joe Mauro had five points for
Castlegar and Rick McKinnon
chipped in with a basket for -
Realty.

Realty finished second last in
the four-team league with a 7-8
record, including a 1-4 mark
against Rock Island, and was not
favored to repeat as champs.

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