On the Feast of St. Benedict, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, Br. Cuthbert Donehue made his junior profession at a special 11:00 am Eucharist. According to custom, at the offertory Br. Cuthbert read his handwritten vows aloud and then signed them on the altar. Abbot Andrew accepted them and added his own signature. Br. Cuthbert was then divested of his novice habit and clothed in the habit of a junior monk. These junior (or temporary) vows of obedience, stability, and conversion to monastic life as lived at St. Gregory's Abbey are for a term of three years, and come after an initial postulancy of six months and a novitiate of two years. After the Eucharist, the community and forty guests celebrated the profession with a special lunch in the monastic refectory. Br. Cuthbert's mother and several friends were amongst the guests gathered for the profession. Br. Cuthbert, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of South Carolina and a master's degree in theological research from the University of Durham in England. He worked as an assistant director for Camp Gravatt in the Diocese of South Carolina in 2002 and 2003, and lived in Hull, England during part of 2003 where he did volunteer work for the church in Sutton and Wawne.