{"id":26916,"date":"2012-03-26T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/matthew-leavy-abbot-of-saint-a\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:41:18","slug":"matthew-leavy-abbot-of-saint-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/matthew-leavy-abbot-of-saint-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Leavy, abbot of Saint Anselm&#8217;s Abbey to retire after 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Abbot%20Matthew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abbot Matthew.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/03\/Abbot Matthew-thumb-230x350-11351.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>This is old news by now, and yet it bears keeping in mind that one of the world&#8217;s longest serving abbot, Benedictine Father Abbot Matthew Leavy, OSB, PhD, will retire as the 4th abbot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anselm.edu\/Saint-Anselm-Abbey.htm\">Saint Anselm&#8217;s Abbey<\/a> in Manchester New Hampshire after 26 years of service to his monastic community, <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anselm.edu\/\" title=\"Saint Anselm College\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Anselm&#8217;s College<\/a>, and the Church in the Diocese of Manchester.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anselm.edu\/News\/Abbot-Matthew-Retiring.htm\">The announcement<\/a> was made on January 31.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abbot Matthew will serve until June 4 when the community will gather to pray to the Holy Spirit and to cast a vote for a new Father Abbot will be elected by the capitulars of the monastic community. The Abbot President Father Hugh Anderson will supervise and confirm the election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Abbey&#8217;s Prior, Brother Isaac, hosts a blog which he periodically speaks of life in the abbey and he&#8217;s now guiding his readers in the uniqueness of electing a new religious superior. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/brotherisaac.wordpress.com\/\">Brother Isaac here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The monks of Saint Anslem&#8217;s Abbey have a reputation of faithfulness to the Holy Rule and service of the Church. The Lord prosper the work of their hands.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saints Benedict, Scholastica and Anselm, pray for the monks of Saint Anselm&#8217;s Abbey, and for us.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=261dc808-1aac-4570-8fa6-b78839079312\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is old news by now, and yet it bears keeping in mind that one of the world&#8217;s longest serving abbot, Benedictine Father Abbot Matthew Leavy, OSB, PhD, will retire as the 4th abbot of Saint Anselm&#8217;s Abbey in Manchester New Hampshire after 26 years of service to his monastic community, Saint Anselm&#8217;s College, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/matthew-leavy-abbot-of-saint-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthew Leavy, abbot of Saint Anselm&#8217;s Abbey to retire after 26 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32089,2789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}