Icebergs Monastery

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Orthodox Benedictine Abbey of the Assumption of Mary
Eisbergen Monastery (front view)
Eisbergen Monastery (front view)
location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Lies in the diocese exempt / stauropegial
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '56.1 "  N , 9 ° 0' 57.3"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '56.1 "  N , 9 ° 0' 57.3"  E
Patronage Assumption Day
founding year 1980

The Benedictine Abbey Mariae Himmelfahrt zu Eisbergen or Kloster Eisbergen is an Orthodox community in Eisbergen , a district of the East Westphalian city ​​of Porta Westfalica . It is not part of the Benedictine Confederation of the Roman Catholic Church , but rather is part of the Western Rite Foundation ( Engl. Western Rite Community ) of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad . There it is led under the name of the Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption of Mary (English Assumption of Mary Orthodox Monastery ).

history

Forecourt

The monastery was founded on December 8, 1980 in Cologne by Bishop Germain von St. Denis (real name: Gilles Bertrand-Hardy), who at the time was bishop for the parishes of the Western Rite in Central Europe and was under the omophorion of the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church , Canonically built as the Benedictine Abbey of the Assumption of Mary in Cologne .

After the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate restricted the jurisdiction of Bishop Germain to France in 1984 , the convention fell out of the canonical nature of the Orthodox Church . Efforts on the part of the Convention to regulate the canonical status and to find a new jurisdiction within Orthodoxy did not lead to success. 2005, presented monks at the invitation of the then Subpriors the Primatialabtei Sant'Anselmo in Rome, John Paul P. Abrahamowicz OSB , a request for inclusion in the Benedictine Confederation . The negotiations with both the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Archdiocese of Paderborn were unsuccessful.

In February 2013, at the time of three was Conventual existing monastery in the Westritus- Vicariate (Engl. Western Rite Vicariate ) added the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Since then, the monastery has been under the supervision of the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) .

management

The monastery is run by Abbot Thomas ( baptized name : Wolfgang) Komossa (* 1951). After studying theology (1970–1976), he was ordained a deacon and priest in 1980 by Bishop Germain according to the Byzantine rite . On the occasion of his admission to the Russian Orthodox Church , he was given the ecclesiastical title of Archimandrite . Prior is Father M. Philipp (baptized name: Horst) Langer (* 1963).

liturgy

Main altar of the monastery church

The liturgical reforms of the Roman Catholic Church of the last two centuries are rejected as "liturgical breaks and modernist new creations of Rome". According to their own statements, “St. Mass - in the continuity of all Christian centuries - in the form that Pope Pius V published and ordered for all time on the basis of the time-honored tradition of the Roman Church ”.

The English versions of the measurement order , which in the Western rite communities of the Antiochene Orthodox Church in the United States are and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in use, but have rubrizielle and textual variants for Ordo Missae Pope Pius V on. In the Latin - Church Slavonic text of the Ordo Missae, however, there are only two variants of the Messordo of the Missale Romanum Pius' V:

  • The filioque is missing in the Credo .
  • In the canon is una cum Papa nostro famulo tuo N. ( dt. "Our Pope N., in communion with your servant") the word Papa by Patriarcha (dt "Patriarch".) Has been replaced.

It is not known which books or which Editio typica of missals and choir books form the basis of the liturgy in the Eisbergen monastery.

Wafers

Some lay people belong to the monastery as oblates . They have made the promise to live according to the spirit of the Rule of Benedict without having to give up their worldly profession and class.

building

View of the Weserstrasse

From 1980 to 2009 the convent was based in Cologne. With the acquisition of the former Hahne uniform factory in Porta Westfalica-Eisbergen, the convention was able to move into a complex with around 640 m² of indoor space in September 2009. The monastery church was consecrated on September 2, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Benedictine Monastery Mariae Himmelfahrt Eisbergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. www.rocor-wr.org Parishes and jordanville.org Directory ROCOR 2016 page 9, accessed on January 22, 2020
  2. Mindener Tageblatt, May 6, 2013
  3. The smallest monastery in Germany ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. Weserkurier of October 24, 2014
  5. benediktinerkloster-eisbergen.com: Church, monastery, foundation, teaching and life queried on January 20, 2020.
  6. docs.wixstatic.com Order of the Divine Liturgy commonly called the Mass (ROCOR-WRV) and ww1.antiochian.org The Ordinary and Canon of the Mass (WRVG-AOCA), requested on January 22, 2020
  7. www.ad-patres.narod.ru Ordo Missae - Чи1нъ Ми1ссы (Latin-Church Slavonic text of Pope Pius V's adaptation of Ordo Missae for use in the Russian Orthodox Church) queried on January 22, 2020
  8. ^ Deister and Weser newspaper from February 26, 2010
  9. After the consecration, the former Eisbergen uniform factory is now a real monastery ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 12, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eisbergen.de