Marcel Breuer and a Committee of Twelve Plan a Church: A Monastic Memoir

Internationally renowned architect I. M. Pei commented that if Marcel Breuer\u27s church for Saint John\u27s Abbey had been built in New York instead of the north woods of Minnesota it would be world famous. Hamilton Smith, Breuer\u27s longtime associate, wrote that the completed church was that rare thing, an architectural design fully realized, and he regarded it as Breuer\u27s finest achievement. The junior member of the twelve-monk planning committee recounts in warm and frequently humorous detail how its members related to the Hungarian-born Bauhaus-trained architect who had no background in church architecture but shared their belief in the enduring quality of simple materials sympathetically used. How the strong architect-client relationship survived the strain of disagreement at a critical moment in completion of the church is the narrative high point in this informal record of four years in which the reader sees a masterpiece of modern church architecture take shape.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1118/thumbnail.jp

Saint John\u27s at 150: A Portrait of this Place Called Collegeville, 1856-2006

Here, in words and images, is the story of this Benedictine academic and spiritual community. Saint John\u27s at 150 has a foreword by Abbot John Klassen, an afterword by President Dietrich Reinhart, and an introduction by Minnesota historian Annette Atkins, who provides a quick survey of what was going on in the rest of the state and the nation as background for the Saint John\u27s story. Then twelve chapters by various authors - some in the monastery, some on the faculty, some from the rest of the world - present personal essays on topics in Saint John\u27s first 150 years, everything from the missionary lifestyle of the first monks to cameo images of some current college profs in the classroom. Sidebars and special features add thirty more writers to the mix for short pieces that are interesting because of the authors as well as the topics. --BOOK JACKEThttps://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1117/thumbnail.jp

Collegeville: A Photo Essay

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Believe That I Am Here: The Notebooks of Nicole Gausseron

In a small, simple chapel during the celebration of the Eucharist, Jesus revealed his presence to Nicole Gausseron and began speaking to her. In the first in a series of three books, Gausseron documents her conversations with Christ. Nicole Gausseron is not a visionary. She was born to a prosperous French family and was educated to be a professor. Translated from French, this volume is a record of Gausseron\u27s first encounter with Christ and many others, kept daily in her petit cahier -her little notebook. Devoid of the reverential tone often found in works of piety, Gausseron\u27s journals read more like Gospel accounts of Jesus\u27 ministry; episodic, terse, and objective. The value of the notebooks lies in their cogent reminder that Jesus lives and seeks a personal relationship with those who believe in him.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1060/thumbnail.jp

The Little Notebook : The Journal of a Contemporary Woman\u27s Encounters with Jesus

The notebook of a woman living in Chartres, France who had visitations from Jesus during the years 1984-1991. Nicole Gausseron experienced Jesus\u27 presence both in church and the outside world, even entering dialogues with her. These dialogues form the basis of this notebook.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1053/thumbnail.jp

Walk with Me: The Notebooks of Nicole Gausseron

I have taken everything unto myself, have absorbed everything. Do not be afraid. I am here, says Jesus. These comforting words appear in Walk with Me, the second of three books that document Nicole Gausseronís conversations with Christ. Reading like the transcript of a conversation between dear friends, Walk with Meis proof that Jesus lives now and seeks a personal relationship with those who believe in him. Nicole Gausseron doesnít claim to be a saint or a visionary. An ordinary woman, she serves as the director of a shelter for homeless men, and is a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. In stunningly simple language, Gausseron shares her frailty, her fears, her joy, and her doubts with Christ, who responds with words of comfort and encouragement, not just for her but for all who love him.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1061/thumbnail.jp

I Am with You Always: The Notebooks of Nicole Gausseron

From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Nicole Gausseron, a Catholic woman in France, recorded in her ìlittle notebookî the conversations she had with Jesus. Her chronicle of these talks does notinclude revelations or visions. Her story is simply a reporting of one womanís conversations with God. It shows, in simple yet breathtaking dialogues, that Jesus seeks a deeply personal relationship with those who believe in him. I Am with You Always, the final book in a three-book series, presents profoundly intimate encounters between Gausseron and Jesus that have never before been published.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1062/thumbnail.jp