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Update: Dr. Robery Moynihan wrote this web article about Fr. Cassian being named 2011 Person of the Year.
From Inside the Vatican, Ms. Deborah Tomlinson writes: “Each January, we select 10 people who have demonstrated courage and faith in their life and in their work from the previous year. Your witness is a light in this sometimes very dark world. This has led us to pick you as the top person of the year for 2011.”
We’re honored and grateful that Inside the Vatican has chosen Fr. Cassian. May his witness inspire and continue to cultivate the faith in dark parts of the world for years to come.
In the article, Dr. Robert Moynihan, friend of the monastery and editor-in-chief of the magazine, writes this:
“Sometimes we are able to see a splendid adventure of life and faith just at the moment that it is unfolding. And we are able to watch the struggles and challenges and successes of a man, or of a group of men, and even to participate with them in that adventure. Such is the case with Father Cassian Folsom and the refounding of the Benedictine monastery in Norcia, Italy—the birthplace of St. Benedict in about A.D. 480—which was closed in 1810, and reopened after 190 years in the year 2000. For what Father Folsom has done for Norcia, for what he has done for monasticism in general and Benedictine monasticism in particular, for what he has done for the Church’s liturgy (for the last three years, the monastery in Norcia has been offering Holy Mass in both uses of the Roman Rite, old and new) and for what he has taught all of us about following Christ by his Christian example, we feel privileged to have the opportunity to select Cassian Folsom, who is also an old friend, as our “Person of the Year” for 2011. Cassian’s initiative is one of the “points of light” in the Church and world today.”
For more information or to order an issue of the magazine, visit: http://www.insidethevatican.com.