Emmanuel Jungclaussen

Emmanuel Jungclaussen OSB (civil: Walter Jungclaussen; born May 15, 1927 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † December 8, 2018 in Niederalteich ) was a German Benedictine priest , abbot of Niederaltaich monastery and spiritual writer .

Life

Emmanuel Jungclaussen grew up in a Protestant family and was given the first name Walter. His father Franz Jungclaussen († 1947) was a co-owner of the H. Jungclaussen tree nursery . The war ended up moving Walter to Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . Jungclaussen converted to the Catholic faith and began studying philosophy and theology for the Diocese of Osnabrück in 1949 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main . In 1953 he was ordained a priest and took up his first position as chaplain in Fürstenau .

In 1955 Walter Jungclaussen entered the Benedictine monastery in Niederaltaich , a monastery in which ecumenism with the Eastern Christians and the Byzantine liturgy were particularly cultivated. As a Benedictine, Jungclaussen received the religious name Emmanuel. One of his areas of responsibility as a monk was teaching at the St. Gotthard Gymnasium in Niederaltaich Abbey (1956 to 1993). After Abbot Placidus Stieß retired, Jungclaussen was elected Abbot of Niederaltaich. He held this office from 1989 to 2001. His motto was "Truly seeking God". Jungclaussen sought the spiritual deepening of monastic life and both the Benedictine spirituality of the Western Church and the contemplative of the Eastern Church in Niederaltaich and to make this accessible to his monks and interested laypeople.

During his time as Abbot of Niederaltaich, Emmanuel Jungclaussen campaigned for a free flowing Danube between Straubing and Vilshofen. For this he received the Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize in 2008 from the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern .

Act

Jungclaussen devoted himself to contemplative spirituality, contemplation and meditation , and wrote several books, including standard works on the Jesus prayer .

In 1996, his lecture at the 46th Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks made this method of prayer known to a broader specialist public as a supportive measure in psychotherapy and gave the impetus to further develop the Jesus prayer as a therapeutic measure.

Jungclaussens contribution to the ecumenism of the Catholic Church with the Eastern Churches lies in the creation of a mutual understanding for the other spirituality. The Benedictine, who is at home in both forms of spirituality, was able to convince both sides. In the Eastern Churches - according to Hilarion Alfejew - " dogmatics and mysticism ", that is, faith and spirituality, are "inseparably linked", so that ecumenism grows less through theological discourse than more through spiritual encounter.

As early as 1967 Jungclaussen expressed the opinion that the apparition of Mary in Fátima represented a problem for many Catholics, although he was critical of the cult of Mary there itself.

honors and awards

• 1996 “Citizen Oscar” of the Passauer Neue Presse for his moral courage
• 2001: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2002: Honorary citizen of Niederalteich
• 2008: Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize , awarded by the Federation of Nature Conservation in Bavaria
• 2014: Bavarian State Medal for special services to the environment

Fonts (selection)

• Experience the abundance. Days of silence with Francis of Assisi . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-451-18267-X
• Words of instruction. The Rule of St. Benedict as an introduction to the spiritual life. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1980, ISBN 3-451-18971-2
• Seek god in you. The path of inner silence according to a forgotten master, Jeanne-Marie Guyon . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-451-20799-0
• Steps into the inner world. Spiritual exercises. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-451-22417-8
• In the footsteps of the masters. Francis of Assisi , Johannes Tauler , Benedict of Nursia , Heinrich Seuse . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-451-22807-6
• Life in mystery. Hundreds of spiritual sermons for Sundays and feast days a year. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-451-26257-6
• Instruction in prayer of the heart . Eos, St. Ottilien 1999, ISBN 3-88096-454-8
• The ease of finding God. Madame Guyon's Inner Prayer . Neufeld , Schwarzenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-937896-84-7 .
• with Leo Linder : The stream of life: On the happiness of finding yourself. Ludwig, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-28015-1 ( autobiography ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Emmanuel Jungclaussen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Emmanuel Jungclaussen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Entry to Emmanuel Jungclaussen on medals online
• Emmanuel Jungclaussen in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)
• Guiding principles for practicing the Jesus prayer by Former Abbot Emmanuel Jungclaussen OSB

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emmanuel Jungclaussen: Instruction in the Heart's Prayer , EOS-Verlag, 2nd edition, St. Otilien 2003, ISBN 3-88096-454-8 , p. 9 (foreword)
2. ↑ Former Abbot Emmanuel Jungclaussen has died. In: pnp.de . December 9, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Former Abbot Emmanuel Jungclaussen on the Niederaltaich Abbey website, accessed on January 3, 2019.
4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Paulus: Emmanuel Jungclaussen: The old man and the current. In: bund-naturschutz.de. Retrieved December 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Hubert Weiger: Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize 2008. Laudation from BN chairman Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger to Abbot Emmanuel Jungclaussen. (PDF; 13.3 kB) In: bund-naturschutz.de. November 10, 2008, accessed December 9, 2018 . Gabriele Ingenthron: Niederaltaicher old abbot Jungclaussen celebrates 90th birthday. In: Sunday paper . May 14, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2018 . 
    
6. ^ Church / Marian veneration: creeping turning away. In: Der Spiegel 21/1967. May 15, 1967, pp. 65-66 , accessed December 9, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Honorary Citizen. Niederalteich municipality, accessed on December 9, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Placidus II. Bumped	Abbot of Niederaltaich 1989-2001	Marianus Bieber