Fr. Jaki Roundup

Last week I told you about the passing of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki. Eventually I will have to post something more in-depth about the man and his work. But in the meantime, I'll simply link to some recent items about him and highlight the more noteworthy information. This first group is obituaries.

• What Does Prayer Really Say? (April 7)
  a simple announcement, but the comments include a broadcast email from Seton Hall president Monsignor Robert Sheeran
• ISI First Principles (April 7)
• Communio blog (April 8)
• Pertinacious Papist (April 11)
  blog and discussion
• New York Times (April 12)
• Associated Press (April 13)
• Los Angeles Times (April 15)

The Los Angeles Times includes this interesting local detail: "From 1957 to 1960, Jaki lived and worked as bookkeeper at the Woodside Priory, which he co-founded with six other Benedictine priests, in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Portola Valley." The New York Times obituary concludes, "He is survived by two brothers, both Benedictine priests, the Rev. Zeno Jaki and the Rev. Theodose Jaki, who live at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma." So he is being buried at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma, about an hour and a half west of Budapest.¹

There is also a beautiful series of posts at Casa Santa Lidia:

• Father Jaki in Rome (March 30)
  photos from his last Rome visit
• Please Keep Praying for Fr. Jaki (April 7)
  more photos from Rome visit
• Father Stanley Jaki 1924 - 2009 (April 7)
  a couple more excellent photos
• In paradisum deducant te angeli (April 8)
  funeral arrangements
• From the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (April 14)
  memorial letter from Chancellor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
• An update (April 16)
  burial arrangements

From which we learn that Fr. Jaki's funeral was at "Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Montserrat in Madrid (plaza San Bernardo, 79) at 17:00 this evening (Wednesday the 8th April)" and "Father Jaki's body will return to Hungary on Friday [the 17th]. Burial will take place on the 29th April at Pannonhalma, at 14:30 (2:30 p.m.)." (h/t the Blue Boar)

This next group are older items that I include as background:

• His Gifford Lectures (later published as The Road of Science and the Ways to God)
• Absolute Astronomy bio
• His 1996 CV

In the wake of Fr. Jaki's death, the Duhem Society has been founded to study the works of those two great historians of science, Fr. Jaki and Pierre Duhem. (h/t the Curt Jester) One of the more useful posts so far is a list of their works available online.

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Notes

1. A friend has asked for a prayer card. If anyone has one, and would take the trouble to scan and post online, it would be appreciated.

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Update (4/24): Fr. Rutler has a wonderful tribute to Fr. Jaki on Inside Catholic. Yes, Fr. Jaki was a Benedictine, though in the photo he appears to be dressed as a Jesuit. ;o)