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“Norbe – who?” I remember asking my friend. We had just entered the then Bishop Neumann High School as young freshmen and were told by Fr. C. Albert Koob, the Principal, that he was a Norbertine and that the Norbertine priests and brothers ran and helped staff the high school...
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The short answer is I do not know. If you would have told me in my early twenties that I would be a Norbertine, a member of the Canons Regular of Prémontré, I would have thought you were crazy. Why? Well, I was not a fervent Catholic…
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All Good stories are true; some actually happened! Myths are the best stories. They tell us who we are. I was raised hearing at the rituals of festive meals the myth of grandparents who migrated to this land from the Abruzzo region of Italy...
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My family lived in a small village-Poederlee-in the Province of Antwerp-Belgium. My father and mother were farmers. I was the first-born, followed by 2 sisters, one year and 6 years after me. I learned my letters and numbers in Kindergarten, run by the Sisters…
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There is a saying: God writes straight with crooked lines. I suppose that saying applies to me as I look back on my fifty years as a Norbertine…
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One of my Norbertine confreres, Fr. Ted Antry, once related a story that I have never forgotten. The bishop of a priest friend of his gave a conference and took questions afterward...