Chrysogonus Waddell

Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO (born March 1, 1930 in the Philippines , † November 23, 2008 in Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky) was a monk and theologian.

Life

The Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani - professed monastery of Father Chrysogonus Waddell

Thomas Waddell converted to Catholicism as a student of musicology in Philadelphia in 1949 and entered the novitiate of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani on August 2, 1950 ; there he made solemn profession on November 1, 1955 and received the religious name Chrysogonus. He was ordained a priest on May 31, 1958 and then went to Rome to do his doctorate at the Benedictine University of Sant'Anselmo . There he began a career as a liturgical scholar and historian, which brought him worldwide recognition. His more than 100 publications on the liturgy history of the Cistercian order are an essential contribution to the history of the order in the 20th century and represent the latest state of research. Like his brother Thomas Merton , Father Chrysogonus lived for decades apart from the abbey, in a remote hermitage. Nevertheless, he served as a rain choir and accompanied solemn liturgies on the organ. He was intensively involved in the monastic liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council and translated many parts of it into English. He was a member of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) and a sought-after speaker at conferences in Germany and abroad.

He died on the feast of Christ the King .

Works

• Shall we really wash our hands in the blood of sinners ?, in: Cistercian Studies Quarterly (CSQ) 44: 4 (2009), pp. 435-445.
• The Primitive Cistercian Breviary (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Lat. Oct. 402), with Variants from the "Bernardine" Cistercian Breviary, Friborg: Academic Press, 2007.
• The hidden years of Ælred of Rievaulx: the formation of a spiritual master, in: (CSQ) 41: 1 (2006) 51-63
• To Metz - but where in Metz? And when ?, in: (CSQ) 41: 4 (2006), pp. 403-419.
• A Corpus liturgicum Cisterciense saeculi duodecimi: a Tribute to John Sommerfeldt ', in: Truth as Gift: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt . (Eds.) Marsha L. Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte and Paul Lockey, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2004, pp. 169-198.
• "Adtendite a falsis prophetis": Abelard's earliest known anti-Cistercian diatribe ', in: (CSQ) 39: 4 (2004), pp. 371-398.
• Cistercian influence on the abbey of the Paraclete ?: plotting data from the Paraclete book of burials, customary, and necrology ', in: Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honor of Peter Fergusson. Ed. Terry N. Kinder, Medieval Church Studies 11; Studia et Documenta 13. Turnhout: Brepol, 2004, pp. 329-340.
• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, sweet singer of Israel: the textual reform of the primitive Cistercian breviary, in: (CSQ) 38: 4 (2003), pp. 439-448.
• Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter. Latin Text with English Notes and Commentary. Studia et Documenta 12. Cistercian: Commentarii Cistercienses, 2002.
• Cistercian Lay Brothers. Twelfth-Century Usages with Related Texts. Edited by Chrysogonus Waddell. (Studia et Documents 10). Citeaux: Commentarii Cistercienses, 2000.
• Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Citeaux. Latin Text in Dual Edition with English Translation and Notes. Citeaux: Commentarii Cistercienses, 1999.
• Praise no less than charity. Studies in honor of M. Chrysogonus Waddell, monk of Gethsemani Abbey, ed. E. Rozanne Elder, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2002.

literature

• Armand Veilleux: Chrysogonus Waddell, moine et ami. In: Cîteaux. Commentarii cistercienses. 61, 2010, ISSN  0774-4919 , pp. 9-20.
• David Bell: Chrysogonus Waddell (1930-2008), a Bibliography. In: Cîteaux. Commentarii cistercienses. 61, 2010, pp. 81-98.

Web links

• Chrysogonus Waddell in the Biographia Cisterciensis