Katharina Schridde
Katharina Klara Schridde (* 1964 in Berlin-Reinickendorf as Barbara Schridde ) is a Protestant Benedictine nun , pastor and author.
Life
After school and Abitur , Schridde began studying history in her hometown of Berlin in 1982. However, she broke off her studies and began training as a pediatric nurse at the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in 1989 . She experienced the work on the children's cancer ward particularly intensely.
At the German Evangelical Church Congress in the Ruhr area in 1991, she first came into contact with the Casteller Ring community , a religious order of women within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Schridde moved to Schwanberg in 1992 and began her membership in the religious community as usual with a novitiate , which she concluded with her profession in 1997 .
From 1995 she studied Protestant theology in Erlangen. She is an ordained pastor in the church province of Saxony . From 2008 until the dissolution in 2011, she was in charge of the community's ward in the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt and was a pastor at the Augustinian church there. She currently lives in Berlin again.
Furthermore, she works as an author. Purposeless being before God through the life of the founder of the community Christel Felizitas Schmid received the Argula von Grumbach Prize of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
Publications (selection)
- Evangelisches Frauenbrevier (2006, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, ISBN 978-3-579-06862-6 )
- Life in abundance. An exercise path through Lent (2007, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, ISBN 978-3-579-06863-3 )
- Seeking healing - finding peace: healing meditations (2007, Weltbild , ISBN 978-3-89897-812-5 )
- To seek the maternal God. A Guide to Spiritual Guidance (2008, Four Towers , ISBN 978-3-89680-381-8 )
- ... and suddenly a nun (2009, Verlag Herder , ISBN 978-3-451-30186-5 )
- Encounter with you. A book of exercises (2009, Pattloch , ISBN 978-3-629-02221-9 )
- With lust and love. The Elisabeth Breviary (2009, edited together with Katharina Talkner, Lutherisches Verlagshaus , ISBN 3-7859-0993-4 )
- You are blessed. God's promise for life (2010, Verlag Kreuz , ISBN 978-3-7831-3445-2 )
- Everyday life and festivities. From the tides of life (2010, Verlag Herder, ISBN 978-3-451-06096-0 )
- Maria - queen and fighter. A spiritual path of experience for today (2010, Verlag Kreuz, ISBN 978-3-7831-8008-4 )
- The elemental force of love. Encouragement to a fulfilled life (2011, Presence-Verlag , ISBN 978-3-87630-207-2 )
- As in heaven so on earth. The most beautiful prayers of Christianity (Ed., 2011, Verlag Herder, ISBN 978-3-451-06405-0 )
Web links
- Literature by and about Katharina Schridde in the catalog of the German National Library
- Healing story without index finger , May 20, 2009, Deutschlandradio
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait in Der Kirchentag - Das Magazin (Issue 03/2014)
- ↑ Carried by the Presence of God , November 28, 2009, Deutschlandradio
- ↑ Entry on the website of the Herder publishing house
- ↑ Publications of the Casteller Ring Community ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schridde, Katharina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schridde, Barbara; Schridde, Katharina Klara; Sister Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant Benedictine woman and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Reinickendorf |