Holy Icon Video
Fr. Antonino Merlino, on the occasion of my pilgrimage to Sicily in 2010, presents image of Christ's Holy Face venerated in the hilltop church of St. Nicholas, Venetico Superiore, Sicily.
2011: Magda Krance, my former Oshkosh student, celebrates my 75th birthday.
Artist Rochelle Szews, with Charles, presents a uniquely rendered portrait of Fr. Eugene.
Fr. Eugene & I as guests of BIshop Andrew Dziuba in the Episcopal residence in Lowicz in 2005.
Rome 2005: Fr. Eugene was ordained here at the Abbey Church of Sant' Anselmo 45 years before.
From the right: Chicago's finest Italo-Sicilian chef Gianni Delisi; Fr. Regis; the monk chef; & Joseph Le Sanche at "Trattoria Gianni" in 2011.
Fr. Eugene presents hand-painted icon of the Black Madonna to Green Bay Bishop David Zubik (now of Pittsburgh)
Pilgrimage to Rome in 2001
Three Monks before St. Peter's Rome
At the Ecumenical Patriarchate 1968: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople blessing the new Community of Our Lady
Józef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of Poland, visiting the Community in 1998.
At Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Father Regis's Baptism
Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken preaching at Feast Day Mass of the Black Madonna in 2010
Oakwood Point from the water
St. Benedict: a treasured image by Ade Bethune
Altar consisting of one, solid oak plank with driftwood base. Carved crucifix behind the altar was the gift of the late Mother Bernadette Wiseman, Superior General of the Presentation Sisters, Watervliet, N.Y.
Chapel windows and alcove of the Blessed Sacrament chapel extending to the right
Present shrine image of Our Lady of Czestochowa by Ursula Hoffman, gift of the late Archbishop Antoni Baraniak of Poznan.
Crucified Christ carved on tree trunk. Several trees were decimated by Dutch Elm disease.
An early spring snow storm.
Christ points the way!
Hand painted figurines adorn our Nativity scene prepared in the Italian Neapolitan tradition beneath live Norfolk Island pine.
Friends since Quigley 1949! Robert Schmidt, with wife Bernadette, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at the Community.
Mother Bernadette Wiseman at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of my receiving the monk's habit.
With my sister Arlene Serafini Richter.
John & Deborah Duquaine of Anderson, IN with their children.
With Mother Abbess Alexandra (the Princess Ileana of Romania)
Weeping icon, St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church, Chicago, began December 6, 1986. The church is next to the former home of my parents.
Oshkosh 1974: wearing our work habit, with my parents who taught me how to cook.
Cooking Monk
The Guardian Angel placed in memory of Rick Buss.
Bishop Adam Maida (now Cardinal Maida), celebrant at our annual Feast Day of the Black Madonna in 1984 as 9th bishop of Green Bay.
Fr. Eugene's First Soleman Mass in Chicago, July 16, 1961; with Laura Serafini.
Fr. Edward Geiskopf of Newburg, WI, with Mother Alexandra, foundress of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Elwood City, PA.
1997: Archbishop Marion Oles presiding at the annual Feast Day. Fourth from the left is the late Fr. Alfred E. Kunz, J.C.D.
Chicago 1969: presiding at the wedding of my sister Arlene to Richard Richter.
Anglican Sisters of the Holy Nativity from Fond du Lac attending our Christian Unity conferences.
Christ is risen! He is truly risen! My attempt at icon painting.
"Saba" il-kelb fil-fenek (Maltese rabbit hound), called Pharoah hound by canine enthusiasts.
"Heide" the noble Weimaraner.
New Gateway to the Community
"Bertie" the Princess of Wales (or Queen Alexandra's) parrot reigned for 21 years.
Feeding "Willibrord," the rescued robin nestling.