Prayer Request - Father Robert Zylla, O.S.C.

Update: August 1st, 11:00 AM (EDT) Obituary notice and funeral plans

Update: July 30th, 9:00 PM (EDT) Here is a later entry that was posted today. It was posted by Mount Saint Mary's.

I just received word that Fr. Robert Zylla of Mount Saint Mary's Seminary has passed away. It was apparently announced by the Knights of Columbus of Maryland. I'm sure the Seminary will have further details in due course. The Archdiocese will also prepare a statement, I would presume.

Here is the information that was contained in the Alumni article online from February, 2007 that I had cited yesterday:

Seminary Honors the Rev. Robert Zylla, O.S.C.

Seminarians, faculty and staff recently honored the Rev. Robert V. Zylla, associate professor of moral theology, on his 80th birthday. A Mass, with Father Zylla serving as the principal celebrant, was held on Sunday morning, January 28, in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. A dinner followed later in the evening.

Father Zylla, a Crosier father, has been a member of the seminary faculty since 1971. During his tenure, he has taught more than 80 percent of all seminary alumni. Monsignor Steven P. Rohlfs, STD, S'76, rector, called his former professor "a model of prayer and devotion for priests and our seminary's bicentennial treasure."

V.: Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.
R.: Et lux perpetua luceat ei.
V.: Requiescat in pace.
R.: Amen.
V.: Anima ejus, et animae omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace.
R.: Amen.