William Meninger

Who they were

William Austin Meninger, O.C.S.O. was an American Trappist priest who was a spiritual teacher and a principal developer of centering prayer, a method of contemplative prayer.

Early life

Educated at: Harvard Divinity School, Boston University, and Seattle University.

Early life Meninger was born in Malden, Massachusetts . [ 1 ] He was raised and educated in the Boston area in Massachusetts . His mother Katherine was born and raised in County Kerry , Ireland, and his father John was a Quaker from Pennsylvania . [ 2 ] After studying at St. John's Seminary in Boston, Meninger was ordained a priest in 1958 for the Diocese of Yakima in the State of Washington , where he worked on an Indian reservation and with Mexican migrant workers for six years.

Path and career

Later life In 1979, Meninger was transferred to a daughter house of Spencer Abbey, St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado , where he has served as prior, vocation director, master of novices , and teacher of theology and scripture. [ 1 ] He spent three years in Israel where he studied scripture and taught at the École Biblique in Jerusalem and at the Trappist Monastery of Latrun . [ 2 ] Meninger also did graduate studies at Seattle University , Harvard Divinity School ,

Why this date

William Meninger appears on our February 14 calendar for 2021 as a death entry.