{"id":31974,"date":"2015-02-01T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31974"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:04:15","slug":"new-abbess-of-regina-laudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/new-abbess-of-regina-laudis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Abbess of Regina Laudis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, began a new transition in the life of the Benedictine community of the Abbey of Regina Laudis with the election of Reverend Mother Lucia Kuppens as the Third Abbess. The new abbess succeeds\u00a0Mother Abbess David Serna. An <a href=\"http:\/\/abbeyofreginalaudis.org\/CurrentEvents.html\"><strong>announcement is made here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Most Reverend Leonard Paul Blair, STD, \u00a0Archbishop of Hartford, offered\u00a0Mass and presided over the election.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Lucia, a Boston native, is a 1973 graduate of Connecticut College and she earned a PhD from Yale in English Literature having written a\u00a0dissertation on Shakespeare\u2019s portrayal of male and female relationships in a process of dis-integration. she\u00a0entered the Abbey in 1979. Of recent time, Mother Lucia has been the community&#8217;s cellarer and the project manager of the abbey&#8217;s renovation and expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Hildegard (formerly of Regina Laudis and now at the daughter house, <a href=\"http:\/\/olrmonastery.org\"><strong>Our Lady of the Rock Monastery<\/strong><\/a> on Shaw Island, WA) relates something Mother Lucia once said: \u00a0\u201cRegina Laudis had something solid and deep. Its members radiated a joy that was increasingly hard to come by as the experiments of the \u00b460s began to fade, and idealism turned to cynicism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blessings to Mother Lucia and the Benedictine nuns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, began a new transition in the life of the Benedictine community of the Abbey of Regina Laudis with the election of Reverend Mother Lucia Kuppens as the Third Abbess. The new abbess succeeds\u00a0Mother Abbess David Serna. An announcement is made here. The Most Reverend Leonard Paul Blair, STD, \u00a0Archbishop of Hartford, offered\u00a0Mass and presided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/new-abbess-of-regina-laudis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Abbess of Regina Laudis<\/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":[3179,32089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974"}],"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=31974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31988,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions\/31988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}