Volume 9 • Issue 1 • Spring 2009
A B B EY
BANNER Magazine of Saint John’s Abbey
Meet a Monk: Luke Dowal, OSB, 4 Printing ABBEY BANNER, 6 Abbey’s Vision Statement, 9 Saint Benedict’s Church, Avon, Minnesota, 10 Review of Abbot Boniface Wimmer’s Letters, 12 Retirement Center renovation, 14 Obituaries: Dietrich Reinhart, Bruce Wollmering, Simon Bischof, 16 Bottle building in Guatemala, 19 Architect awards, 20 Woodworking at St. Paul’s Monastery chapel, 21 Abbey Chronicle, 24 Monks in the Kitchen, 29 AND MORE
Brother Luke, OSB, at his easel