Tag: Fr. Raymond
Dedication of the new Oblate Room
Following Mass this Sunday, June 17, 2018, Abbot Placid Solari, OSB will formally dedicate the Oblate meeting room. The room has historically been used as the College’s music room. For decades Fr. Kenneth Geyer, OSB, taught countless students in the very room the Oblates will now occupy. Fr. Raymond Geyer, OSB, served for over 16… Read More ›
Two Lives: Fr. Raymond and Betty
Over the summer I was privileged to attend two funerals, Fr. Raymond and my mother-in-law, Betty Ray Canipe. Why would I connect the two? It is quite simple. Betty passed away on Saturday and Fr. Raymond passed away on Sunday. So close together I could not help reflect on parallels between the two of them… Read More ›
Abbot Placid’s Homily at Fr. Raymond’s Mass of Christian Burial
Mass of Christian Burial for Father Raymond Geyer, O.S.B. July 29, 2009 We have come together today to give praise and thanks to God for our dear brother, Father Raymond, who served God faithfully as a professed monk of this abbey for sixty-six years, and served the church tirelessly in his priestly ministry for over… Read More ›
+ Father Raymond Geyer, OSB
Father Raymond Geyer, a monk and priest of Belmont Abbey for more than sixty years, died peacefully on Sunday afternoon, July 26. The son of Joseph A. Geyer and Kathryn Nuwer Geyer, Father Raymond was born on September 24, 1922, in Lancaster, New York. He attended Saint Mary’s Elementary School and High School in Lancaster,… Read More ›
Belmont Abbey Monk Dies at Age 86
Nick Tabor, Gaston Gazette. July 28, 2009 Placid Solari, abbot of Belmont Abbey Monastery, glanced at his watch as he stepped into the parking lot of Gaston Memorial Hospital on Sunday afternoon. It was 3:45. He was visiting his friend Raymond Geyer, an 86-year-old monk of Belmont Abbey. Solari gave Geyer communion and they spoke… Read More ›