Father Daniel Gerald Dempski, O.S.B.

                        1951 - 2007

“To the monk heaven was next door; he formed no plans, he had no cares; the ravens of his father Benedict were ever at his side. He ‘went forth’ in his youth ‘to his work and his labour’ until the evening of his life; if he lived a day longer, he did a day’s more work; whether he lived many days or few, he laboured till the end of them. He had no wish to see further in advance of his journey than where he was to make his next stage. He ploughed and sowed, he prayed, he meditated, he studied, he wrote, he taught, he delivered the mail, he turned on the lights, he started his lectio; then he died and went to heaven.” 

Adapted from John Henry Cardinal Newman.