Venio Abbey

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Venio Abbey

The Benedictine Abbey Venio of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a community of women in the Munich district of Nymphenburg who lead a monastic life according to the Benedictine Rule and at the same time work outside the monastery.

history

The Venio community began with a group of young women who began celebrating the monastic divine office together in Munich in the early 1920s . The initiator was mother Agnes Johannes (1900–1993), who is considered the founder of the community and in 1926 officially took over the leadership of the community. In the following year, the community received from the Archbishop of Munich Cardinal Faulhaber the permission to live together ( Vita communis ) and thus its first ecclesiastical recognition. Supported by the Benedictine monasteries of Beuron and Ettal , the women, who were bound to the monastery of Beuron by oblation, shaped their lives more and more according to the rule of St. Benedict and thus developed into a monastic community.

In 1952 the community moved into the house in Nymphenburg, where it still lives today. In 1973 mother Agape Gensbaur (1922–2015) replaced the founder in the management of the community. In 1992 the community received the canonical status of an institute under episcopal law and at the same time was admitted to the Benedictine Confederation . Her successor was Sr. Lucia Wagner (1993–2010). During this time, among other things, the task of establishing contacts for the worldwide association of Benedictine women , Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB) as a delegate for the German-speaking area, followed in 2007 the establishment of a branch in Prague. The monastery is located on the White Mountain on the outskirts of Prague . Since February 6, 2010, Sr. Carmen Tatschmurat has been the prioress of the community.

On July 11, 2013, the Venio community was raised to an abbey by the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Reinhard Cardinal Marx , and received the transfiguration of the Lord as patronage . The previous prioress of the community, Sr. Carmen Tatschmurat, was ordained the first abbess of the new abbey on the same day .

Way of life

Venio Abbey combines the traditional monastic way of life, as defined by the Rule of St. Benedict is given with the demands of daily life in a modern city. The everyday life of the sisters of the abbey is determined on the one hand by the liturgy celebrated together ( Liturgy of the Hours and Holy Mass ) and on the other hand by their work in the city. The sisters work in various professions, e.g. B. as a nurse, doctor, physiotherapist, teacher, lecturer, agricultural engineer or in pastoral service in Munich parishes.

The sisters offer interested people the opportunity to participate in their lives by inviting them to celebrate the liturgy with them or to take part in other spiritual and cultural events.

See also

literature

  • The statutes of the Venio OSB community , Munich 1993.
  • Carmen Tatschmurat, The Venio OSB community in Munich , in: Alt und Jung Metten, vol. 69, issue 1 (2002/03), pp. 30–47.
  • Agnes Johannes / Agape Gensbaur, voices of friends. A memorial for mother Agnes Johannes OSB, compiled by friends, supplemented by voices from the house , Munich 2000.
  • Agape Gensbaur, conversion to the world. The worldliness as a possible form of monastic searching , in: Erbe and order , vol. 69 (1993), pp. 62–67.
  • Agape Gensbaur, Insights or: How beautiful Benedictine life can be , Munich 2002.
  • Agape Gensbaur, A search for God from place to place. The Venio community was founded in Prague , in: Erbe und Einsatz, Vol. 84 (2008), pp. 82–84.
  • Stephan Haering, Living alone and together , in: Erbe und Einsatz, Vol. 79, Issue 2 (2003), pp. 107–112.
  • Stephan Haering, Canonical establishment of the Venio OSB community in Munich , in: Erbe und Einsatz, vol. 69 (1993), pp. 157–160.
  • Livia Leykauf, Venio. A possibility of Benedictine life today , Munich 1999.
  • Lucia Wagner (ed.): Love for Christ . Münsterschwarzach: Vier-Türme-Verlag 2004
  • Birgitta Louis, foundation of the Venio OSB community in Prague. One year after the inauguration of the new monastery , in: Alt und Jung Metten, vol. 75, issue 1 (2008/09).
  • Johanna Domek: M. Agnes Johannes. In: dies .: Benedictine women move the world. 24 images of life. Münsterschwarzach: Vier-Türme-Verlag 2009
  • Lucia Wagner, Anežka Najmanová: Komunitá Venio OSB, Praha. A Czech-German Benedictine monastery . In: DOK (Deutsche Ordenskorrespondenz) 52 (2011) H. 1, P. 49ff

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for M. Agape (Hella) Gensbaur OSB. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  2. ↑ http://www.kommunitaet-venio-osb.de/texte/CarmenPriorin.html New prioress introduced into office
  3. ↑ Cardinal Marx elevates the Venio community to an abbey ( memento of July 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

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