April 22, 2009

Rector’s Dinners guests to view rare St. John’s Bible

Rector Father Michael Glenn will host the inaugural Rector’s Dinners for St. John Vianney Theological Seminary on April 24 and 25 at the institute located at the John Paul II Center, 1300 S. Steele St. 

Each of the Rector’s Dinners will begin with Mass at 6 p.m. followed by a cocktail party and a gourmet meal in the seminary refectory served by and attended by all the St. John Vianney seminarians. 

The activities will be highlighted with a keynote address by Father Glenn on the state of the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Denver. Additionally, the John and Carol Saeman family have loaned the seminary their unique and rare St. John Bible for viewing at the Rector’s Dinners. 

In the eighth century, near what are now Scotland and England, Benedictine monastic scribes created a Bible that today is one of the longest surviving monumental manuscripts in the Western world.  Nearly 1,300 years later, renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson approached the Benedictine monks with his lifelong dream to create the first handwritten illuminated Bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press.  The St. John’s Bible uses ancient materials and techniques to create a contemporary art masterpiece that brings the word of God to life for the contemporary world.

Reservations are still available for the Rector’s Dinners. Call 303-282-3413 or e-mail bob. hurley@archden.org.