THE PROCESSIONAL                                        View Slideshow of Inauguration
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra         
Harlaxton Woodwind Quintet

THE MARSHAL OF     
THE CONVOCATION
Robert Alvis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Church History, Faculty  Moderator,
Saint Meinrad School of Theology     

CALL TO ORDER    
Rev. Kurt Stasiak, OSB, STD
Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees

INVOCATION    
Rev. Tobias Colgan, OSB, MA          
Prior, Saint Meinrad Archabbey

NATIONAL ANTHEM    
Jerry Byrd, Trumpeter

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

SALUTATIONS
John Hollowell, BA, President of Saint Meinrad Student Theological Society,
Representing the students of Saint Meinrad School of Theology

Sr. Francis Marie Pifer, OSB, MA, President of the Saint Meinrad Alumni Association,  Representing all alumni of Saint Meinrad

Robert Alvis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Church History and Faculty Moderator,
Representing the faculty of Saint Meinrad School of Theology

John Chappell, JDL, Attorney, Bingham McHale, LLP, Chair of the Board of Overseers, Representing the Board of Overseers

Rev. Raymond Studzinski, OSB, PhD, Faculty Member in Religious Studies and School of Theology, Catholic University of America,
Representing Higher Education

INTRODUCTION OF THE    
PRESIDENT-RECTOR 
Rev. Mark O’Keefe, OSB, STD,
Former President-Rector, Associate Professor of Moral Theology,
Saint Meinrad School of Theology
Pastor, St. Mary’s Parish, Huntingburg, Indiana    
      
CHARGE TO THE PRESIDENT  
INVESTITURE WITH PRESIDENTIAL MEDALLION
Rt. Rev. Justin DuVall, OSB, AMLS
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Archabbot of Saint Meinrad Archabbey             

MUSICAL SEGMENT   
“Lead Kindly Light”
      Text: Cardinal John Henry Newman
      Music: Br. Karl Cothern, OSB

INAUGURAL ADDRESS   
Very Rev. Denis Robinson, OSB, PhD, STD       
President-Rector, Saint Meinrad School of Theology

HYMN
Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things hath done, In whom His world rejoices;
Who, from our mothers’ arms, Hath blessed us on our way,
With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.
All praise and thanks to God, The Father now be given,
The Son, and Spirit blest, Who reigns in highest heaven,
Eternal, Triune God, Whom earth and heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now, And shall be ever more. Amen.

BENEDICTION 
The Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB, DD     
Archbishop of Indianapolis

RECESSIONAL    
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra         
Harlaxton Woodwind Quintet

RECEPTION (Immediately following)
Alumni Commons
St. Gregory Gallery
Holly Tree Courtyard