Assumpta Schenkl

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Assumpta Schenkl OCist (born August 11, 1924 as Gertrud Schenkl in Waldkirchen , † April 24, 2009 in Eisleben ) was a German Cistercian. She was a high school teacher , 1987-1999 abbess of the Cistercian monastery Seligenthal in Landshut and then founder prioress of the monastery Helfta in Eisleben. She also wrote scriptures on the spiritual life.

Life

Gertrud Schenkl was born in Waldkirchen in 1924. After graduating from high school in Passau , completing the Reich Labor Service and training as a primary school teacher with the English Misses in Passau- Freudenhain , she worked as a primary school teacher in the Bavarian Forest from 1948 to 1954. In 1954 she entered the novitiate of Seligenthal Abbey in Landshut and received the religious name Maria Assumpta. There she qualified for the higher teaching post and was then from 1962 to 1992 a teacher of German and Latin at the high school of the Cistercians of Seligenthal .

On June 7, 1987, the Seligenthal convent elected her 42nd abbess of the monastery. The benediction took place on June 28, 1987. Their motto was: Pax et unitas in amore Dei ( Peace and unity in the love of God ). Abbess Assumpta was particularly committed during her tenure to the equality of abbesses with the abbots of the Cistercian order and was president of the Commissio pro Monialibus from 1988 to 2000 . In 2000 she achieved one of her goals when the abbesses of the order were allowed to participate in the General Chapter in Rome on an equal basis for the first time .

After her resignation as Abbess of Seligenthal, Schenkl had been the founding priority of the revitalized Helfta monastery in Eisleben since 1999. Together with a small group of fellow sisters, she managed in just a few years to turn the dilapidated monastery buildings into an education and retreat house and a place for contemporary and lively monastery life.

Awards

  • Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Landshut
  • Bavarian Order of Merit
  • Gold medal of the Romanesque Prize of the State Tourism Association of Saxony-Anhalt for her commitment to the St. Marien monastery in Helfta, 2007.

Works

(A complete catalog of works can be found in M. Christian Hansen's obituary, see "Literature")

  • With all of my heart. Benno, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7462-1782-2 , 128 pages.
  • Get up my girlfriend and come !: Spiritual texts based on the Song of Songs. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1994, ISBN 3-88096-920-5 , 90 pages.
  • Textos espirituales del diálogo de amor entre dios y el alma, Spiritual texts on the loving dialogue between God and man. Fundación Fernando Rielo, Sección Editorial, ISBN 84-86942-26-8 , 175 pages.
  • On God's longing for man and man's longing for God: prayers and poems by a Cistercian woman. Cistercian Abbey, Eschenbach 1990, 64 pages.
  • I love love: prayers and poems by a Cistercian woman. Cistercian Abbey, Eschenbach 1986, 61 pages.
  • O my golden god: spiritual texts. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-184-0 , 55 pages.

literature

  • M. Christiane Hansen: Abbess M. Assumpta Schenkl O.Cist. (1924-2009). In: Analecta Cisterciensia 60 (2010), pp. 387-392.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awarding of the 2007 Romance Prize in Havelberg. (No longer available online.) Anhaltweb.de, May 11, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved May 2, 2009 .
predecessor Office Successor
Columba Baumgartner Abbess of the Cistercian Abbey of Seligenthal
1987–1999 		Petra Articus
personal data
SURNAME Schenkl, Assumpta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenkl, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian, abbess of the Seligenthal monastery in Landshut, founding priority of the Helfta monastery in Eisleben
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirchen
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2009
Place of death Eisleben