This web site is a memorial to those individuals who were passionate about the reform of the
Roman Catholic liturgy as set forth in Sacrosanctum Concilium (the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)
and who now, in eternal life, worship the God whom they served in this life.

We remember those who have died . . .

1938
1944
1948
1952
1953
1954
1957
1960
1963
1968
1970
  • Leonard Doyle, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
  • Michael Ducey, OSB, Saint Benedict's Abbey, Benet Lake, WI/ Saint Anselm's Priory, Washington, DC
1971
  • William Busch, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Saint Paul Seminary, St. Paul, MN
  • Thomas Carroll, Archdiocese of Boston, MA
  • Thomas Vincent Dore, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago, IL
  • Damasus Winzen, OSB, Maria Laach, Germany; Mount Savior Monastery, Elmira, NY
1973
  • Bob McGill, Diocese of Fort Worth, TX
1975
1976
1979
1980
1981
1982
  • Annibale Bugnini, Vatican City State
  • Maur Burbach, OSB, Saint Pius X Abbey, Pevely, MO
1983
  • Ernst Langenhorst, Diocese of Fort Worth, TX
1987
1988
1989
1990
  • Thea Bowman, FSPA, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, La Crosse, WI
  • Larry Gully, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN
  • Shawn Sheehan, Archdiocese of Boston, MA
1991
1992
1993
1994
  • Jacques Berthier, Taizé Community, France
  • Edward J. Kilmartin, SJ, University of Notre Dame, IN, and Pontifical Oriental Institute
  • Franz H. Mueller, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN
  • Jan Vermulst, Composer from the Netherlands
1995
1996
1997
  • Irma Mae McCahill Dore, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago, IL
  • Alexander Peloquin, Composer from the Diocese of Providence, RI
  • Omer Westendorf, Composer and Publisher, World Library of Sacred Music, Cincinnati, OH
1998
1999
  • John Balka, Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC
  • Michael H. Hay, Archdiocese of Chicago, IL
  • Norita Lanners OSB, Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, MN
  • John B. O'Donnell, Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada
  • Leon Roberts, Composer, Archdiocese of Washington, DC
  • Leonard Sullivan, Archdiocese of Regina, Saskatchewan/National Liturgy Office, Canada
2000
2001
  • J.D. Crichton, Pershore, Worcestershire
  • Cecile Gertken, OSB, Saint Benedict's Monastery, St. Joseph, MN
  • Theodore Marier, Archdiocese of Boston, MA
  • John Joseph O'Flaherty, Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

2008
2009
2010
2011

We remember those who have died . . .

A
Ardazabal, José (2006)
Avery, Raymond [Benedict] (2008)

B
Bagnell, Mary Elizabeth (2003)
Balka, John (1999)
Bannister, Nancy (2006)
Bauman, William (2011)
Beauduin, Lambert (1960)
Becker, Johnelle (2004)
Bergerson, Gregor (2011)
Berthier, Jacques (1994)
Bethune, Ade (2002)
Bischof, Simon (2009)
Botte, Bernard (1980)
Bowman, Thea (1990)
Braud, Dominic (2009)
Brown, Bill (2008)
Brusselmans, Christiane (1991)
Bugnini, Annibale (1982)
Burbach, Maur (1982)
Burghardt, Walter (2008)
Busch, William (1971)
Byrne, Patrick (2002)

C
Carroll, Thomas (1971)
Casel, Odo (1948)
Cioffi, Paul (2004)
Crichton, J.D. (2001)
Cummins, Patrick (1968)

D
Deering, William (2005)
Deiss, Lucien (2007)
Depner, Mary Delores (2011)
Diederich, Everett (2011)
Diekmann, Godfrey (2002)
Dlugosch, Teri (2006)
Donovan, Kevin (2008)
Doub, Nicholas (2002)
Doyle, Leonard (1970)
Ducey, Michael (1970)
Duffy, Regis (2006)
Dunning, James (1995)

E
Ellard, Gerald (1963)

F
Farrell, Gerard (2000)
Ferris, William (2000)
Field, James (2010)
Flannery, Austin (2008)

G
Gallen, John (2011)
Gelineau, Joseph (2008)
Gertken, Cecile (2001)
Gertken, Innocent (1953)
Gertken, Norbert (1957)
Gertken, Urban (1987)
Guardini, Romano (1968)
Gully, Larry (1990)
Gy, Pierre-Marie (2004)

H
Haban, Mary Teresine (2010)
Hackett, Estelle (1948)
Hall, Jerome M. (2009)
Hallinan, Paul John (1968)
Hay, Michael (1999)
Heidt, William (2000)
Hellriegel, Martin (1981)
Hillenbrand, Reynold (1979)
Hillert, Richard (2010)
Holland, Eric (1991)
Hovda, Robert (1992)
Howell, Clifford (1981)
Huijbers, Bernardus Maria (2003)
Hurley, Denis (2004)
Hytrek, Theophane (1992)

J
Jones, Percy (1992)
Jungmann, Josef (1975)

K
Kacmarcik, Frank (2004)
Kavanagh, Aidan (2006)
Keifer, Ralph (1987)
Kilmartin, Edward (1994)
Klimisch, Jane (2010)
Kline, Francis (2006)
Kraus, Conrad (2009)
Kreutz, Robert (1996)

L
Langenhorst, Ernst (1983)
Lanners, Norita (1999)
LaVerdiere, Eugene (2008)
Leonard, William (2000)
Lynch, Albert Edwin (1976)

M
Madden, Lawrence J. (2011)
Madsen, Cletus (2002)
Marier, Theodore (2001)
Marx, Michael (1993)
Mathis, Michael (1960)
Mazar, Peter (2002)
McGill, Bob (1973)
McManus, Frederick (2005)
Michel, Virgil (1938)
Mueller, Franz (1994)
Mueller, Therese (2002)
Murray, Gregory (1992)
Murray, Jane Marie (1987)

N
Neville, John (2008)

O
O'Brien, John J. (2010)
O'Donnell, John (1999)
O'Flaherty, John Joseph (2001)

P
Paluch, Margaret (2009)
Parsch, Pius (1954)
Peloquin, Alexander (1997)
Perrot, Jane Marie (1998)
Piercy, Robert William (2011)
Pfeil, Elmer (1996)
Proulx, Richard (2010)

Q
Quinn, Frank (2008)
Quinn, James (2010)

R

Gregor Bergerson, OSB

Gregor (Doris) Bergerson, OSB
March 12, 1926 - July 27, 2011


Gregor (Doris) Bergerson was born March 12, 1926, to Bergie and Augusta (Ritzinger) Bergerson in Chippewa Falls, Wis. She graduated from Catholic grade school and public high school in Chippewa Falls. She entered Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, MN, on September 7, 1943, was received into the novitiate June 21, 1945, made first monastic profession on July 11, 1946, and perpetual profession on July 11, 1949.

Gregor earned a BA degree in music at the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, and an MA in music history at the University of Minnesota. Further studies took her to Mary Grove College in Detroit, MI, Saint John’s University and St. Norbert’s College in De Pere, WI.

Pastoral ministry was a second venture in Gregor’s life. As pastoral minister, she served in Anaconda, MT, and in Olivia, MN. After completing training in clinical pastoral education at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, she was certified as chaplain by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) and served in this capacity at Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA. In 2001, she added certification in spiritual direction from the Spirituality Ministries Program at Saint Benedict’s Monastery.

Music animated Gregor, who loved to sing and to dance; her service included teaching classroom music, individual piano instruction, liturgy and sacred dance; at times she was church organist. These ministries took her to locations throughout Minnesota and to Colorado Springs, CO.

Later, Gregor filled the role of a volunteer teacher’s assistant in several grade schools in St. Cloud, MN. At Saint Benedict’s Monastery, she was organist, a member of the monastic schola, cantor, leader for sacred dance, spiritual companion and prefect of residents for the College of Saint Benedict for two years. She retired to Saint Scholastica Convent, St. Cloud, MN, in 2009.

Tribute prepared by Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, MN.

John Gallen, SJ

John Gallen, SJ
November 19, 1932 - April 17, 2011

Founder of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL), John Gallen, SJ, died Sunday, April 17, 2011, in New York City. John convened the first gathering of NAAL in Scottsdale, AZ, December 4-7, 1973 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium (the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1950 and received the Berakah award in 2000. The Berakah Award has been given since the beginning of the Academy and is given every year to a member of the Academy to honor her or his work. John’s Berakah response was titled “The Role of the Artist in Liturgical Inculturation.” He served for a number of years as Director of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy.

Tribute prepared by the North American Academy of Liturgy.

William A. Bauman

William A. Bauman
October 30, 1934 - April 17, 2011


“We do not come to meet Christ as if he were absent from the rest of our lives. We come together to deepen our awareness of, and commitment to the action of his Spirit in the whole of our lives at every moment. We come together to acknowledge the love of God poured out among us in the work if the Spirit, to stand in awe and praise. . .


“People in love make signs of love, not only to express their love but to deepen it. Love never expressed dies. Christians’ faith in Christ and in each other must be expressed in signs and symbols of celebration, or it will die.”


Though a young Father William A. Bauman wrote those words for the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Liturgy nearly 39 years ago in the landmark document “Music in Catholic Worship,” they were certainly the expression of a wide consultation of lay, clergy and religious.


And yet, they were still the vision of a deeply gifted, deeply pastoral priest that generations of Catholics in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph came to know simply as “Father Bill.”


That was the way of Father Bauman, 76, who died on Palm Sunday, April 17, barely two weeks after he celebrated his 51st anniversary of ordination to the priesthood of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.


“The moment you met Father Bauman, he was calculating what your gifts were and how they could be used,” said Glenda Jacobson, who worked on the staff of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Oakview. “He was gifted at getting you to do your job and feeling like you owned it.”


It was at St. Charles that Father Bauman had the vision for “Foundations in Ministry,” a program in which non-ordained professional staff, such as Jacobson and Benedictine Sister Esther Fangman, would train lay people to assume leadership roles in music, liturgy and the prayer life of a worshipping community.


“Bill was leadership,” Sister Esther said at Father Bauman’s vigil and prayer service on the eve of his funeral Mass of Resurrection April 25 at St. Thomas More Parish, the last parish that Father Bauman pastored before his retirement.


“He was a human being who knew his humanness, and then he embodied leadership, he embodied priesthood, he embodied being a pastor,” Sister Esther said.


Those were the heady days in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, when then-Bishop Charles Helmsing, one of the council fathers, assembled around him the best young talent in the diocese to carry out the vision of the council, in much the same way that his namesake, St. Charles Borromeo, implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent in his Archdiocese of Milan some 400 years earlier.


And when Bishop Helmsing’s successor, Bishop John J. Sullivan, came to the diocese with a vision for the systematic training of professional lay ecclesial ministers, he quickly learned of “Foundations of Ministry,” and tapped Father Bauman to be the founding director for the Center for Pastoral Life and Ministry.


Maureen Kelly, who was on the Center’s first staff, said Father Bauman had a way of bringing out the best in every one who worked with, not for, him.


“What struck me about him was how collaborative he was,” Kelly said. “He modeled on our staff what we were doing in parishes. He empowered. He listened. He changed his mind. He didn’t come up with plans and say, “This is the way we are going to do it.” He worked with us.”


Kelly said that Father Bauman sent the Center’s staff out to parishes to listen.


“It was our job to listen to the leadership in parishes, and from what we heard, we were to design classes and programs according to what they needed,” Kelly said.


“What he wanted was competent, competent lay ministers in parishes, and he always said, “competent” twice,” she said.


Jacobson said that Father Bauman once told her that as a youth, he didn’t know if he wanted to be a scientist, an engineer, or a musician.


“He said he became a priest so that he could do all of them,” she said.


He certainly had the pedigree.


Father Bauman’s father, John, was a chemical engineer and CEO of Solo Cup Co. of Grandview, which employed over 1,200 people in several states. His mother Theresa was also a chemist who taught high school chemistry for 20 years.


His brother John is professor emeritus of chemistry at University of Missouri-Columbia. His brother Joseph served on the IBM task force that developed the personal computer, and was IBM’s vice president in charge of production and marketing of the machine that continues to change the world. He later became dean of the School of Business at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.


Father Bauman’s sister, Mary Ann Yeats, is the first female district court judge in Australia, serving the Western District in Perth. His youngest sister, Linda, taught elementary school for 30 years and is married to John Shumway, a champion bass fisherman who spent many hours on the Lake of the Ozarks with his priest brother-in-law.


Shumway said he didn’t need to listen to the weather forecasts when Father Bill was on board his bass boat.


“He was so into the weather,” Shumway said. “He knew exactly where the fronts were and how they were setting up.”


Last year, at the request of Bishop Robert W. Finn, Father Bauman agreed to step out of retirement and serve as temporary administrator of one more parish, Holy Spirit in Lee’s Summit, effective Jan. 1.


Ten days later, after discovering unusually high blood sugar levels, Father Bauman’s doctors told him that an aggressive cancer was attacking his pancreas and liver. He was given two months to two years to live.


Word quickly spread around the diocese, especially to his brother priests who held Father Bauman in high esteem, and heaven was bombarded with prayers.


“There is not room enough in The Catholic Key to print all the reasons the priests of this diocese respect Bill Bauman,” said Father Bob Rost, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Hamilton and its mission, Mary Immaculate in Gallatin.


“He has been a giant in this diocese for 51 years,” Father Rost said. “If there is any liturgical mentor for priests in this diocese, he is that. We all owe him an enormous debt.”

His imprint is not only on the diocese, but on the nation. Many of the programs pioneered under Father Bauman’s leadership became national norms.


“He had us working on the catechumenate (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) before the (U.S. bishops) documents came out,” said Sister of Charity Cele Breen, who served on the Center for Pastoral Life and Ministry staff.


As pastor of St. Stephen Parish, now Our Lady of Peace, in northeast Kansas City in 1970, Father Bauman had the idea that his small parish could coordinate services and programs with two neighboring small parishes, and contacted their pastors, Father Jerry Waris at Holy Trinity and Father Ernie Gauthier at St. Michael.


“What a great idea to combine resources and work as a team,” Father Waris said in his homily at the April 24 prayer service. “Bishop Helmsing trusted him and gave us the chance to work in a collaborative way.”


It made its mark not only on parish life, but on the city of Kansas City.


The three-parish ministry team founded Northeast Cooperative Social Services, an agency serving the poor which has evolved today into the multi-service Bishop Sullivan Center, feeding hundreds of people daily and providing job training and search skills, air conditioners for the elderly, no-cost loans and emergency utility assistance among other services.


The team also got a federal grant to launch “Dial-A-Ride,” a cab-based, low cost transportation system for the elderly that has evolved into Share-A-Fare which continues today.


“These were important events,” Father Waris said. “They are recorded in the hearts of all of us who are called to be church together. We know how it was, how good it was, and what the impact it had on the lives of those we serve and our lives, and we will settle for nothing less.”


For Father Bauman and the priests and lay people he led by his example, the Second Vatican Council was not about translating the Mass into vernacular languages. It was transforming the church in service to the people.


“It was not about bells and robes,” Father Waris said. “It was about a Pentecost of fire, where we still believe that we have something to say and that leadership will listen.”


And it was about complete trust in God, Father Waris said.


“As Bill lived, so he died, emptying himself, weak, vulnerable, so he could open himself to God and the call home.”


Even as he was dying, Father Bauman taught by example. Days after his diagnosis of terminal cancer, he opened a journal on CaringBridge.org.


“Prayer seems easier, more clear-headed,” he wrote on Feb. 12, the day he began a double chemotherapy regimen in hopes of slowing the cancer’s spread.


He expressed gratitude for Benedictine Abbot Gregory Polan’s gift of a Grail Psalter which the monks of Conception Abbey had translated.


“The Psalms for me have done a wonderful job of keeping God big — immense — and in charge,” he wrote. “Giving God glory and trusting his love is certainly what it is all about now.”


Soon after, his chemotherapy regimen gave him a deeply painful, burning rash.


“It takes special effort to pray in pain, to focus on Christ as companion on the journey, to say yes to each day’s journey one day at a time,” he wrote on Feb. 22.


Five days later, still in pain, Father Bauman wrote: “Prayer is different in times too of sharp pain. I find two ways quite enriching. The first is to actually focus on the pain, letting it be my point of dying and rising. . . While it is more comforting to focus on a mountain or sunset or flowing stream, it is equally consoling to focus on a pain that is transforming me into eternal life.


“I also enjoy picking one of the Psalms. . . I read it very slowly, syllable by syllable, and sooner rather than later, a phrase or thought relates to my pain in the big picture of God’s love and glory.”


On March 1, Father Bauman recalled a retreat he gave for 8th grade students some 10 years earlier.


“One group of boys asked me the very profound question: “Father Bill, are you afraid of to die?”


“I told them that I had talked life over with Jesus every day since I was their age. Why would I be afraid to meet Christ now?”


On March 14, he wrote: “Lent moves forward with its challenge to keep asking the big questions. Just who am I? What does the future hold? What can I find to do each day to bring some joy into someone’s life?”


On March 21, less than a month before he was to die, Father Bauman wrote of a beautiful spring day.


“Something way down deep says, “Lord, could I be in charge just for today?” But I would not want to miss one of those days of which I would say: “Lord, had you made me for this day alone, it would have been worth living.”


On the morning of April 4, he wrote about attending the wedding of his youngest niece, Amy, and of celebrating his ordination anniversary.


“That kind of pushed me over the limit,” Father Bauman wrote. Hardly enough energy to sit in a chair.


“Gratitude still comes easily. Thanks to God for the life of a priest. Thanks for a wonderful family. Thanks for our church, for all who have supported me so faithfully these last 10 weeks. Pray with me now that I may keep my hands lifted up to our God in a joyful, “Come Lord Jesus,” this week.”


That evening, Father Bauman wrote his final entry:


“I will move into the Little Sisters (of the Poor, St. Jeanne Jugan Center) tomorrow. . . I look forward very much to the daily Eucharist, to sharing Communion with all of you. As Jesus is blest and broken, so may each of us in our daily bread be bread that is shared with Christ and become the one Body, growing into resurrection and life.”


Tribute by Kevin Kelly, The Catholic Key, Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph.

Damasus Winzen, OSB

Damasus Winzen, OSB
1901–1971


Dom Damasus Winzen, OSB, was a Benedictine monk of Maria Laach Abbey in Germany. He was sent to the United States by the monks of Maria Laach to secure a location for them to move in order to escape from Nazi Germany. As it turned out, this was not necessary. Instead, he found himself preaching about the liturgical reform to packed ballrooms in New York City, a novel concept in America, but one that had been developing in Germany since 1913.

In 1951, he founded Mount Savior Monastery in Elmira, New York. It was a beautiful location for a monastery, but know as “Poverty Hill” by the villagers since the farmland soil was extremely poor. His intent was to one day erect a large basilica on the hill that had sweeping views of the valley and river below. The monastery was founded on principles of simplicity and equality, without traditional divisions between choir monks and lay brothers, all sharing in the raising of sheep.

Winzen developed and cultivated many supporters downstate. Having run out of gas while on a trip in France, he called upon a friend who later left him a bequest that enabled him to hire one of the top church architects of the day. Winzen had also befriended a cardinal who later became Pope when the liturgical reforms were put into place in the 1960’s.

All of these convergences enabled Winzen to build an octagonal chapel with an altar in the center and permission from Pope Paul VI to experiment with the new liturgy. Simultaneously Maria Laach received this same permission and experimented with the first dialogue masses in Germany. These masses where held in a small crypt below the grand basilica of Maria Laach.

A monk and scholar, Winzen served as associate editor of Orate Fratres and editor of Pathways in Holy Scripture. He was a prime mover in the organization of the Benedictine Liturgical Conference (later known as the National Liturgical Conference).

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