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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Solius


Magno cum gaudio, notum vobis facimus, frater noster Carolus Sànchez Garcia, per primam professionem se Deo obtulit in nostro Monasterio B.M.V. de Solius (Catalaunia), in Solemnitate Sanctorum Omnium anni 2009.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Call for Papers an alle Cistercienserforscher

Abt Karl Braunstorfer: sein Lebenswerk aus der Sicht der Ordensgeschichte und Liturgiewissenschaft

Tagungstermin: 19. März 2010, Stift Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald.
Einsendeschluss: 1. Dezember 2009

Karl Braunstorfer (1895-1978) war von 1945 bis 1969 Abt von Heiligenkreuz und Abtpräses der Österreichischen
Cistercienserkongregation. Als Abtpräses war er Konzilsvater am Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil.
Das von ihm herausgegebene Breviarium Sancrucense (Liturgia Horarum Ordinis Cisterciensis, 1978/2006)
war das Ergebnis der cisterciensischen Brevierreform nach dem II. Vatikanum; es ist eines der wenigen
lateinischen Stundenbücher nach dem Konzil, das erfolgreich rezipiert wurde.

Abt Karl gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Cistercienser des 20. Jahrhunderts; am 15. Nov. 2008 eröffnete
Christoph Kardinal Schönborn die Sessio prima seines Seligsprechungsverfahrens. Abt Karls Ordensleben
umspannte eine außergewöhnlich vielschichtige Ära von Monarchie über Ständestaat, Zweiten Weltkrieg, Nachkriegszeit bis hin zum Aufbruch nach dem Zweiten Vatikanum. Seine Zusammenarbeit mit einflussreichen Bischöfen und Äbten, seine Bemühung um liturgische und monastische Reform im Stift Heiligenkreuz und sein persönlicher Ruf der Heiligkeit lassen uns viele Fragen stellen und thematische Verknüpfungen herstellen.

Referate werden zu folgenden Themen gesucht: Pietas Austriaca, klösterliche Pfarrseelsorge, Tagzeitenliturgie
im 20. Jh., Cistercienser im kommunistischen Osteuropa, Usus Cistercienses, Visitation im 20. Jh., cisterciensische
Architektur und Liturgie im 20. Jh.

Arbeitstitel und 1.000 Zeichen Vortragsskizze
sind bitte bis 1. Dez. 2009 an den Institutsvorstand des EUCist
(http://www.hochschule-heiligenkreuz.at/EUCist-Forschungsinstitut.eucist.0.html) zu senden:

Monday, November 02, 2009

Poblet, Novitius


1 novembris 2009

Die solemnitatis Omnium Sanctorum, in monasterio Populeti (Catalaunia), David Renart Montón accepit habitum novitii, quod datum est ei ab abbate Josep Alegre, in capitulo, post officium Laudum Matutinorum, stante omne conventu necnon paucis familiaribus novitii simul cum hospitibus monasterii. Laus Deo Virginique Matri.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Oberschönenfeld: Buchpräsentation


Am Freitag, 30 Oktober um 16 Uhr wird in der Zisterzienserinnenabtei Oberschönenfeld ein Buch von P. Gabriel Hammer OCist (Abtei Marienstatt) präsentiert:

HAMMER, Gabriel: Bernhard von Clairvaux in der Buchmalerei. Darstellungen des Zisterzienserabtes in Handschriften von 1135-1630. Schnell&Steiner2009. ISBN 978-3-7954-2083-3

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

St. Marienstern - Novizin

In der Abtei St. Marienstern wurde am 15. Oktober 2009

Sr. Cora Küfner

ins Noviziat aufgenommen.

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, LAST OF THE CHURCH FATHERS

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, LAST OF THE CHURCH FATHERS

VATICAN CITY, 21 OCT 2009 (VIS) - In the catechesis he delivered during his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father turned his attention to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), known as the last of the Church Fathers "because in the twelfth century he renewed and updated the great theology of the Fathers".

Born in Fontaines, France, Bernard entered the monastery of Citeaux at the age of twenty. In 1115 he was sent by St. Stephen Harding, third abbot of Citeaux, to found a new monastery at Clairvaux where Bernard himself became abbot. At Clairvaux the saint "insisted on the importance of a sober and restrained lifestyle, in food, in clothing and in the structures of the monastery, at the same time encouraging support and assistance for the poor", the Holy Father explained.

From Clairvaux, where the community grew steadily, Bernard corresponded regularly and often with people of all kinds, and wrote a large number of sermons and treatises. As of 1130 he also concerned himself with serious questions affecting the Holy See and the Church. With his writings he combated the heresy of the Cathars who, by spurning matter and the human body, also spurned the Creator. Likewise, he "defended the Jews, condemning the ever more widespread outbreaks of anti-Semitism".

The two central aspects of the saint's doctrine concern Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. He "did not introduce novelties to the academic discipline of theology but, with great decisiveness, likened the theologian to the contemplative and the mystic", in the belief that "true knowledge of God consists in a personal and profound experience of Jesus Christ and His love.

"This", the Pope added, "applies to all Christians. Faith is first and foremost an individual and intimate encounter with Jesus, it means experiencing His closeness, His friendship, His love". Thus Bernard was in no doubt that "through Mary we are led to Jesus", and he clearly demonstrated "the privileged place of the Virgin in the economy of salvation, thanks to her entirely unique participation in the sacrifice of her Son".

Even today St. Bernard's ideas "stimulate not only theologians but all believers. At times we think we can resolve the fundamental questions about God, mankind and the world using only the power of reason. St. Bernard however, solidly rooted in the Bible and the Fathers of the Church, reminds us that without a profound faith in God, nourished by prayer and contemplation, ... our reflections upon the divine mysteries risk becoming a vain intellectual exercise and lose their credibility".

Benedict XVI concluded: "Theology defers to the 'science of the saints' - to their intuition concerning the mysteries of the living God, to their wisdom (a gift of the Holy Spirit) - who become a point of reference for theological thought. ... In the end, the most authentic figure of theologian and of evangeliser remains that of St. John, who placed his head against the Master's heart".

Monday, October 19, 2009

Heiligenkreuz - Hochschule

Symposion
KRAFT DES LOGOS


Freitag, 20. bis Samstag, 21. November 2009

Anmeldung bis 14. November bei
logos@hochschule-heiligenkreuz.at

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Marienthal


St. Marienthal


Am Samstag 17. Oktober 2009 legte Sr. Anna Rademacher die Feierliche Profess ab.