Canisiuswerk
The Canisiuswerk is an Austrian ecclesiastical institution for the spiritual advancement and material support of spiritual professions .
history
On January 31, 1918 , the school director Josef Moser († November 13, 1931 ) founded the Canisiuswerk association in Vienna for the training of Catholic priests with the aim of providing information about the priestly profession and providing material support to needy priest students. The name of the work should be reminiscent of Petrus Canisius (1521–1597).
From 1922 the association published the magazine Quatemberstimmen . In 1926 branch associations were founded in Innsbruck , Salzburg and Klagenfurt , and in 1927 also in Budapest , Ljubljana , Munich , Prague , Warsaw and Zurich . In 1927 the club magazine was renamed Volksseele and in 1967 it was renamed together .
In 1939 the Canisiuswerk was elevated to the status of an episcopal work in all Austrian dioceses , the Volksseele magazine had to be discontinued and could not appear again until 1946. In 1945 it was incorporated into the Pontifical Work for Spiritual Professions .
On June 4, 1970 it was dissolved as an association and rebuilt as a church institute . This makes it a legal personality for the church and for the state.
In 1998 the Canisiuswerk had around 45,000 sponsors and supported 19 seminars. Of the supported students, 2,531 have been ordained priests by this year.
Goals and activity
The Canisiuswerk's field of activity is vocational pastoral care . The spiritual advancement happens u. a. by publishing the regular magazine together and by supporting retreats and retreats . The Canisiuswerk prepares the annual world day of prayer for spiritual professions .
Material are seminarians and religious novices supported. The Canisiuswerk built the interdiocesan seminar for late professions ( Canisiusheim in Horn , Lower Austria ), inaugurated in 1959 , and also maintains it.
In addition, initiatives that awaken and accompany vocations are funded (project funding).
management
Section bishop is Wilhelm Krautwaschl . He is the chairman of the board of trustees , which decides on annual planning, budget and payment of grants. Elisabeth Grabner has been the office manager since 2016.
literature
- Gabriele Schmidt: 70 years Canisiuswerk (1918–1988). A piece of Austrian church history . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1988.
- Franz Walper: priest - co-worker of Christ. A documentation of the church institute Canisiuswerk . Church Institute Canisiuswerk, Vienna 1982.