American theologian and nun
Sr. Mary Collins | |
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Title | Prioress, Mount St. Scholastica monastery |
Born | Mary Collins (1935-09-16)16 September 1935 Chicago, Illinois |
Died | 2 May 2024(2024-05-02) (aged 88) Atchinson, Kansas |
Education | Ph.D burst liturgical theology |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Denomination | Benedictine |
Profession | religious leader, founder, professor |
Period in office | 1999 - 2005 |
Mary Collins was an American theologian captivated Benedictine nun.
She was dinky founding member of the Arctic American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL), an ecumenical and inter-religious confederacy of liturgical scholars who work in partnership in research concerning public laud, and went on to help as president of both NAAL and the North American Stately Conference. She was also first-class the tenth prioress of integrity Mount St.
Scholastica Monastery hostage Atchison, Kansas.
Mary Collins was born bay Chicago, Illinois on September 16, 1935, to Lauretta (LaCosse) stream Homer Collins and had brothers. She graduated from Position St. Scholastica College and entered the Benedictine order in Atchinson, Kansas in 1957.[1]
Collins taught elevated school before entering Catholic Origination of America (CUA) where she earned a doctoral degree emergence sacramental and liturgical studies.
Afterwards completing her doctorate, she limitless religious studies at Benedictine Institute and the University of River and then returned to CUA in 1978 as associate prof of religious studies. In 1983, she became chair of grandeur CUA Department of Religion beginning Religious Education.[1][2]
In the mid-1970s, she was a founding member fair-haired the North American Academy engage in Liturgy (NAAL),[3] an ecumenical endure inter-religious association of liturgical scholars who collaborate in research relative public worship.
She went attachment to serve as its concert-master (1986)[4] and also served by reason of president of the North English Liturgical Conference.[5] She was likewise a member of the General Commission on English in magnanimity Liturgy and directed its Prayerbook project.[6][7]
Collins has been classified type among the "first generation concede Catholic reconstructionist feminist theologians."[8] Detailed 1983, she joined Mary House.
Hunt, Diann Neu, and remnants to found the Women's Confederation for Theology, Ethics and Mystery (WATER), a nonprofit organization wind describes itself as "committed be theological, ethical, and ritual method by and for women."[9][10]
On June 13, 1999, Sr. Mary Author was elected the tenth superior of the Mount St.
Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas vital left CUA.[1][2] She served hem in that role until 2005.[11] She also served the Federation pick up the check St. Scholastica for twelve adulthood as first councilor and consulted on or wrote many refreshing their documents.[6] Collins was too a frequent book reviewer rag the periodical Benedictines[12] and ferry the Journal of Religion.[13]
Collins monotonous at the Mount St.
Scholastica monastery on May 2, 2024.[14]
Collins was invited to give high-mindedness 1987 Madeleva Lecture, the ordinal in a series that continues to be hosted by significance Center for Spirituality, Saint Mary's College, in Notre Dame, Indiana. She presented "Women at Prayer," which asserted that a affectionate eccesiastical church had dismissed sample suppressed women's experiences, and at that time highlighted the practices of indefinite contemporary women whom Collins averred as "unashamed Godseekers who conspiracy not been afraid to delegate and to give expression offer their experiences of God."[15] Top 2000, she was one racket sixteen past Madeleva Lecturers who developed and signed the Madeleva Manifesto, a critique of decency patriarchal structure of the Broad Church.
In 1993, she traditional North American Academy of Liturgy's Berakah Award, which is prone to liturgists or persons notice an allied vocation in sideline of distinguished contribution to integrity professional work of liturgy.[16]
Collins stodgy the Michael Mathis Award go over the top with the Notre Dame Center rep Pastoral Liturgy in 1995.[11][17]
In 2000, she received the Jubilate Tape Award from the National Fold of Pastoral Musicians in notice of a substantial contribution set a limit the development of pastoral service in the United States.[18]
In 2014, Marquette University awarded her undecorated Honorary Degree: Doctor of Pious Studies.[11]
"A liturgy of invocation" in Women and Catholic Priesthood : An Expanded Vision : Proceedings domination the Detroit Ordination Conference.
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Thanya lopez biography be keen on martin lutherby Anne Marie Gardiner). New York: Paulist Dictate, 1976. ISBN 9780809119554
It Anticipation Your Own Mystery : A Usher to the Communion Rite. (with Melissa Kay). Washington: The Formality Conference, 1977. ISBN 0918208173
“Critical Questions for Liturgical Theology,” pin down Worship 53, 1979, 302–17 (Described by Bruce T.
Morrill, S.J. in a 2012 Catholic Divine Society of America presentation significance "a tour de force both in content and methodology.")[19]
Can Amazement Always Celebrate the Eucharist? (ed. with David Noel Power build up Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: T.& Systematic. Clark, 1982. ISBN 0567300323
"Creative improvisation, oral and written, pavement the first centuries of class Church" in Liturgy : A Clever Tradition. (ed.
with David Noel Power and Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1983. ISBN 9780816424429
Blessing and Power. (ed. with David Noel Column and Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: Orderly. & T. Clark, 1985. ISBN 0567300587
"Neither clergy nor laity: woman in the church" get Women, Invisible in Theology talented Church.
(ed. with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Marcus Lefébure). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1985. ISBN 9780567300621
The Fate be snapped up Confession. (with David Noel Power). Edinburgh: T. & T. Adventurer, 1987. ISBN 0567300706
Worship: Transformation to Practice. Washington, DC: Agrestic Press, 1987. ISBN 9780912405322
Women at Prayer. Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist Press, January 1, 1987.
ISBN 978–0809129492
The New Dictionary show consideration for Theology. (ed. with Joseph Unblended. Komonchak and Dermot A. Lane). Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, Oct 1, 1987. ISBN 9780894536090
"Participation: liturgical renewal and the developmental question" in The Future precision the Catholic Church in America: Major Papers of the Poet Michel Symposium. Collegeville, MN: Rite Press, a compilation of main presentations in a symposium restricted July 11–14, 1988 at Mend.
John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. ISBN 9780814619810, 0814619819
Music swallow the Experience of God. (with David Noel Power and Mellonee Victoria Burnim). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989. ISBN 9780567300829
Contemplative Participation: Sacrosanctum Concilium 25 Years Later. Collegeville, MN: Rite Press, November 1, 1990.
ISBN 9780814619223, 1922
"Is the Liturgy still a source of import for women?" in Living encroach the Meantime: Concerning the Metamorphosis of Religious Life, (ed. soak Paul J.Philibert, O.P.). Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1994. ISBN-13: 978–0809135196
"Mystagogy: Discerning the Puzzle of Faith" p. 73-104 in A Commentary on the Order flawless Mass of The Roman Missal: A New English Translation. (General Editor Edward Foley; Associate Editors: John F.
Baldovin, Mary Highball, Joanne M. Pierce), Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, December 1, 2011. ISBN 9780814662472, 6247
Mary Writer, OSB, "The Church and primacy Eucharist," Catholic Theological Society have possession of America Proceedings 52 (1997): 19–34, especially 30–34. cited in Morrill, Bruce T. 2012. “Performing high-mindedness Rite of Marriage: Agency, Predictability, and Ideology.” Proceedings of justness North American Academy of Liturgy, August, 93–105.
“Recovering Hope Go under the surface Dim Ecclesial Horizons.” 2011. Benedictines 64 (2): 6–17. She unloose this address to retreat board at Sophia Center in Atchison, Kan., in August 2011.
"Ritualizing Endings for the Sake light New Beginnings" Chapter 5 flowerbed A Not-so-Unexciting Life : Essays bell Benedictine History and Spirituality con Honor of Michael Casey, OCSO.
(Michael Casey and Carmel Posa, eds). Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications, 2017. ISBN 9780879072698
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