Alois Stenzel

Alois Stenzel SJ (born January 1, 1917 in Reichenstein , Province of Silesia , † October 11, 2013 in Cologne ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

In 1936 he entered the novitiate of the East German Province of the Jesuit Order in Mittelsteine , Glatz district . The usual training took him through the chaos of the war to Pullach , where he was ordained a priest in 1947, Büren (Westphalia) , where the theological faculty of the order had found its exile, and to Wépion in Belgium . From 1952 to 1954 he completed postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , where he did a thesis on Cultus publicus. A contribution to the concept and ecclesiological place of liturgy for doctor of theology doctorate was. In 1952 he moved to the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck to continue his studies with the liturgical historian Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ. From 1953 he taught at the theological faculty of the Jesuit Order in Frankfurt am Main, which later became part of the PTH Sankt Georgen . Like other Sankt Georgen professors of his generation, he was present at the Second Vatican Council as a member of the council (consilium) for the implementation of the liturgical constitution and the coetus (assembly) for the sacraments. When he retired in 1985, his teaching activities in Sankt Georgen ended. For the next 15 years he worked as a chaplain in the senior citizens' home of the poor sisters of St. Francis in Langen Strasse in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2000 he was himself a senior in one of the senior citizens' homes of his order, initially in Münster , and from 2002 on in the senior community Friedrich Spee in the Caritas retirement center St. Josef-Elisabeth in Cologne-Mülheim , where he was born on the night of the 11th Died October 2013.

Web links

• PTH Sankt Georgen
• con-spiration.de