Tabat Scholarship Recipients

2010

Claire M. Anderson, Pastoral Associate at St. Robert Parish in Shorewood, Wisconsin is enrolled in the Ecumenical Doctor of Ministry Program; Catholic Theological Union; Chicago, Illinois (anticipated graduation, 2012) 

2009

Solveiga Palionis is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry, with a concentration in Liturgical Studies, at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.  

2008

Kristopher W. Seaman, Associate Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of Gary, is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry, with a concentration in Liturgical Studies, at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.

2007

Sr. Anita Louise Lowe, O.S.B., a Benedictine of Immaculate conception Monastery in Ferdinand, IN, is pursuing an M.A. in Theology, with a concentration in Liturgical Studies, at the University of Notre Dame.

2005

Carrie Marcotte is the Director of Liturgy at Saint Scholastica Parish in Woodridge, Illinois. She is working on completing her Masters of Arts in Music with a concentration in Church Music and Liturgy at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.

2004

Rev. R. Gabriel Pavarnik, O.P. of the Domincan Province of St. Joseph. Father Gabriel is an STD candidate in Sacramental Theology/Liturgical Studies at The Catholic University of America. His doctoral research topic, “Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Liturgical Participation in the Writings of Cipriano Vagaggini and Edward Kilmartin,” investigates two of significant contemporary authors in the field of liturgical theology. Not only a scholar, Father Gabriel is known in the dioceses of Providence and Arlington as dedicated to the liturgical life of the Church as a musician, pastoral minister, preacher and presider.

2003

Diana Macalintal, worship director for the diocese of San Jose, is the 2003 recipient of the Tabat scholarship award. Diana holds a BA in Music and is currently pursuing a masters of arts in theology, specializing in liturgy, through the School of Theology Seminary summer program at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Diana has also served as a parish music and liturgy director and campus minister.

2002

The first recipient of the scholarship of award set up in memory of Sr. Joan Tabat is Karin Barrett from St. Paul, Minnesota. Director of Music and Liturgy at Church of St. Pascal Baylon in St. Paul, Ms. Barrett holds a Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Minnesota and is currently writing her M.A. thesis for a Masters' degree in Divinity from St. John's University in Collegeville. 

Ms. Barrett was seen by the FDLC Board of Directors as the appropriate recipient of the Tabat Scholarship, since Sister Joan, herself a pastoral musician and composer, also obtained Masters degrees in both theology and music.