Alumni News and Opportunities
All Alumni! Plan now for Homecoming, September 11-12, 2013
(coincides with Mt. Angel Oktoberfest)
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Alumni Priests Continuing Education Retreat
May 1-2, 2013

Guest speaker is Paulist Fr. Frank DeSiano (President of Paulist Evangelization Ministries in Washington, DC). He will guide us eager to become more active in “spreading the Good News” on how to be more involved in evangelization - a dynamic process that starts with deepening and renewing our own faith leading us to sharing faith with others and bringing faith to bear on the world. Watch for updates. Full schedule and registration information >>
Check out his website: www.pemdc.org
Pope names three alumni monsignors
Mount Angel Seminary congratulates three of its own on their appointments as monsignors



Rev. Msgr. Joseph Betschart, current President-Rector, studied at the Seminary before going on to finish his formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
Rev. Msgr. Patrick Brennan, currently pastor at St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, graduated from Mount Angel Preparatory School in 1969 and received a BA from the Seminary in 1973 before finishing his formation at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Rev. Msgr. Donald Buxman, currently vicar for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Portland, studied at Mount Angel Seminary College and St. Thomas Seminary in Kenmore, Washington.
Read the Press Release from the Archdiocese of Portland
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