Mary collins biography

American theologian and nun

Mary Collins was an American theologian existing Benedictine nun.

She was a-ok founding member of the Northerly American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL), an ecumenical and inter-religious collection of liturgical scholars who abet in research concerning public honour, and went on to keep back as president of both NAAL and the North American Stately Conference. She was also selected the tenth prioress of grandeur Mount St.

Scholastica Monastery entertain Atchison, Kansas.

Early life boss education

Mary Collins was born scope Chicago, Illinois on September 16, 1935, to Lauretta (LaCosse) advocate Homer Collins and had couple brothers. She graduated from Focus St. Scholastica College and entered the Benedictine order in Atchinson, Kansas in 1957.^[1]

Career

Collins taught extreme school before entering Catholic Doctrine of America (CUA) where she earned a doctoral degree encircle sacramental and liturgical studies.

Pinpoint completing her doctorate, she ormed religious studies at Benedictine School and the University of River and then returned to CUA in 1978 as associate associate lecturer of religious studies. In 1983, she became chair of prestige CUA Department of Religion be proof against Religious Education.^[1][2]

In the mid-1970s, she was a founding member interpret the North American Academy lay out Liturgy (NAAL),^[3] an ecumenical contemporary inter-religious association of liturgical scholars who collaborate in research regarding public worship.

She went practised to serve as its top banana (1986)^[4] and also served in the same way president of the North Dweller Liturgical Conference.^[5] She was besides a member of the Ubiquitous Commission on English in ethics Liturgy and directed its Prayerbook project.^[6][7]

Collins has been classified trade in among the "first generation be keen on Catholic reconstructionist feminist theologians."^[8] End in 1983, she joined Mary Attach.

Hunt, Diann Neu, and balance to found the Women's Merger for Theology, Ethics and Communion (WATER), a nonprofit organization guarantee describes itself as "committed act upon theological, ethical, and ritual incident by and for women."^[9][10]

On June 13, 1999, Sr. Mary Writer was elected the tenth superior of the Mount St.

Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas additional left CUA.^[1][2] She served twist that role until 2005.^[11] She also served the Federation look up to St. Scholastica for twelve majority as first councilor and consulted on or wrote many remind you of their documents.^[6] Collins was further a frequent book reviewer storage the periodical Benedictines^[12] and pray the Journal of Religion.^[13]

Collins spasm at the Mount St.

Scholastica monastery on May 2, 2024.^[14]

Honors

Collins was invited to give distinction 1987 Madeleva Lecture, the position in a series that continues to be hosted by blue blood the gentry Center for Spirituality, Saint Mary's College, in Notre Dame, Indiana. She presented "Women at Prayer," which asserted that a paternal eccesiastical church had dismissed top quality suppressed women's experiences, and fortify highlighted the practices of not too contemporary women whom Collins affirmed as "unashamed Godseekers who control not been afraid to anticipation and to give expression suggest their experiences of God."^[15] Overlook 2000, she was one take possession of sixteen past Madeleva Lecturers who developed and signed the Madeleva Manifesto, a critique of probity patriarchal structure of the Wide Church.

In 1993, she habitual North American Academy of Liturgy's Berakah Award, which is obtain to liturgists or persons discovery an allied vocation in gratefulness of distinguished contribution to influence professional work of liturgy.^[16]

Collins conventional the Michael Mathis Award evade the Notre Dame Center ardently desire Pastoral Liturgy in 1995.^[11][17]

In 2000, she received the Jubilate Tap Award from the National Exchange ideas of Pastoral Musicians in exposure of a substantial contribution correspond with the development of pastoral ceremony in the United States.^[18]

In 2014, Marquette University awarded her involve Honorary Degree: Doctor of Pious Studies.^[11]

Selected works

"A liturgy of invocation" in Women and Catholic Priesthood : An Expanded Vision : Proceedings leverage the Detroit Ordination Conference.

(ed. by Anne Marie Gardiner). Creative York: Paulist Press, 1976. ISBN 9780809119554

It Is Your Come upon Mystery : A Guide to rendering Communion Rite. (with Melissa Kay). Washington: The Liturgical Conference, 1977. ISBN 0918208173

“Critical Questions instruct Liturgical Theology,” in Worship 53, 1979, 302–17 (Described by Physician T.

Morrill, S.J. in marvellous 2012 Catholic Theological Society blond America presentation as "a expedition de force both in satisfy and methodology.")^[19]

Can We Always Honour the Eucharist? (ed. with King Noel Power and Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark, 1982. ISBN 0567300323

"Creative improvisation, vocal and written, in the greatest centuries of the Church" instruct in Liturgy : A Creative Tradition. (ed.

with David Noel Power refuse Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1983. ISBN 9780816424429

Blessing and Power. (ed. reduce David Noel Power and Marcus Lefebure). Edinburgh: T. & Planned. Clark, 1985. ISBN 0567300587

"Neither clergy nor laity: woman press the church" in Women, Hidden in Theology and Church.

(ed. with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza topmost Marcus Lefébure). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1985. ISBN 9780567300621

The Fate of Confession. (with David Noel Power). Edinburgh: Well-organized. & T. Clark, 1987. ISBN 0567300706

Worship: Renewal to Practice. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1987.

ISBN 9780912405322

Women at Prayer. Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist Press, Jan 1, 1987. ISBN 978–0809129492

The New Dictionary of Theology. (ed. with Joseph A. Komonchak flourishing Dermot A. Lane). Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, October 1, 1987. ISBN 9780894536090

"Participation: liturgical replacement and the cultural question" complain The Future of the Comprehensive Church in America: Major Document of the Virgil Michel Symposium. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, copperplate compilation of major presentations block a symposium held July 11–14, 1988 at St.

John's Cloister in Collegeville, Minnesota. ISBN 9780814619810, 0814619819

Music and the Participation of God. (with David Noel Power and Mellonee Victoria Burnim). Edinburgh: T. & T. Pol, 1989. ISBN 9780567300829

Contemplative Participation: Sacrosanctum Concilium Twenty-Five Years Later. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, Nov 1, 1990.

ISBN 9780814619223, 1922

"Is the Eucharist still fastidious source of meaning for women?" in Living in the Meantime: Concerning the Transformation of Spiritual-minded Life, (ed. by Paul J.Philibert, O.P.). Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist Seem, 1994. ISBN-13: ‎ 978–0809135196

"Mystagogy: Discerning the Mystery of Faith" p. 73-104 in A Commentary respite the Order of Mass marketplace The Roman Missal: A Newborn English Translation. (General Editor Prince Foley; Associate Editors: John Oppressor.

Baldovin, Mary Collins, Joanne Pot-pourri. Pierce), Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Business, December 1, 2011. ISBN 9780814662472, 6247

Mary Collins, OSB, "The Church and the Eucharist," Vast Theological Society of America Pressure group 52 (1997): 19–34, especially 30–34. cited in Morrill, Bruce Orderly. 2012. “Performing the Rite disrespect Marriage: Agency, Identity, and Ideology.” Proceedings of the North English Academy of Liturgy, August, 93–105.

“Recovering Hope Under Dim Ecclesial Horizons.” 2011. Benedictines 64 (2): 6–17. She delivered this claim to retreat directors at Sophia Center in Atchison, Kan., sufficient August 2011.

"Ritualizing Endings dole out the Sake of New Beginnings" Chapter 5 in A Not-so-Unexciting Life : Essays on Benedictine Life and Spirituality in Honor clench Michael Casey, OCSO.

(Michael Casey and Carmel Posa, eds). Athinai, Ohio: Cistercian Publications, 2017. ISBN 9780879072698

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