Final profession of religious vows

Top: Benedictine Brother Basil Lumsden professes solemn vows as a member of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad on Aug. 15 in the monastic community’s Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) Bottom: Sister of Life Lucia Christi Zetzl processes on Aug. 6 into St. Patrick Cathedral in New York at the start of a Mass during which she and three other members of the New York-based religious community professed perpetual vows. (Photo courtesy of the Sisters of Life)

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A member of a religious community in the archdiocese and a Catholic who grew up here recently professed final vows in their respective communities.

Brother Basil Lumsden professed solemn vows on Aug. 15 as a member of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad during a Mass in the monastic community’s Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln.

A native of Trinidad, Brother Basil, 48, has studied music in London and Canterbury, England, and liturgy in Mundelein, Ill., and Oxford, England. He also served in liturgical music in England and Bermuda.

At Saint Meinrad, he has served as an organist, monastery guest master and dining room assistant.

Sister of Life Lucia Christi Zetzl professed perpetual vows on Aug. 5 during a Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral in New York. Her religious community is based in New York and serves mothers and their children, both born and unborn, in several missions across the country and in Canada.

Sister Lucia Christi was previously a member of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis and a student at Indiana University in Bloomington where she was active in the St. Paul Catholic Center. †

The Criterion

August 26, 2022

Final profession of religious vows

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