Maria Julitta Ritz

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Maria Julitta Ritz , CSR , (born September 24, 1882 in Uissigheim near Tauberbischofsheim , North Baden ; † November 13, 1966 in Würzburg ), real name Theresia Eleonore Ritz , was a Catholic nun in the congregation of the Redeemer Sisters , teacher and mystic . Your beatification process has started.

Life

Theresia Eleonore Ritz was born in 1882 as the daughter of Alois Ritz and Eva Maria Bär in a farming family with ten children. When she was thirteen, her parents moved to Veitshöchheim . On May 13, 1901, she entered the congregation of the Redeemer Sisters in Würzburg as a candidate. First she attended the internal school there, then from 1902 to 1905 the teachers' seminar in Aschaffenburg . After the state examination in 1905, she was dressed and accepted into the novitiate with the religious name Maria Julitta. She made her profession on October 6, 1906. First she worked at various elementary schools , from October 1910 at the school's own school in the motherhouse in Würzburg. This school had to close in 1940 under pressure from the National Socialists . Sr. Julitta was now working at the gate. On March 16, 1945, the monastery complex was completely destroyed in the bombing of Würzburg and the sisters moved to Heidenfeld . After the reconstruction of the mother house, Sr. Julita continued to work at the gate until her death. In the post-war period, she set up a charitable parcel service.

In her service she also proved herself to be a spiritual advisor, also by correspondence. She was in contact with several theology professors, for example with the religious psychologist Alois Mager OSB . As early as 1924, on the advice of her spiritual director Konrad Hock (1868–1935) , she began recording her spiritual development. She continued these notes in a kind of spiritual autobiography from 1935 until her death . Julitta's writings have survived (in some cases only copies) and are collected and published in the Julitta archive in Würzburg; nothing was printed during her lifetime that was not part of her intention.

Characteristics of their spirituality are a deep inwardness and a firm trust in God. Ironically, it was precisely her mystical prayer life that led to her not being allowed to work as a teacher or in higher religious offices. The then widely read book of the spiritual Hock The Exercise of the Visualization of God was suspected of false mysticism and the pastor and nurse pastor himself in Rome falsely denounced because of irregularities in dealing with women , which led to an apostolic visitation from 1928 to 1936 to the sisters. Although Hock was completely acquitted by the Holy Office , sisters who had had him confessor were no longer allowed to perform important functions.

Ritz died on November 13, 1966 and was buried in the main cemetery in Würzburg . On May 21, 1983 the bones were exhumed, examined for authenticity and then buried in the motherhouse church of the Redeemer Sisters in Würzburg.

The Würzburg bishop em. Paul-Werner Scheele spoke and wrote for the veneration of the religious sister and initiated the process of beatification in 1982. The postulator for the beatification process in Rome was Zygmunt Zimowski (until 2002), followed by Krysztof Nykiel. In Germany (in the successor of Ildefons Dietz), Heribert fell has been entrusted with the post of postulator since 1993 .

In December 2011 a decree of the Pope confirming the heroic degree of virtue of Maria Julitta was published; this is considered a stage on the way to beatification.

Works

literature

  • Erik Soder from Güldenstubbe :  Ritz, Julitta. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 417-420.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive  on 2008-12-05)
  • Konrad Hock: The exercise of making God present. A booklet for souls who strive for perfection. Rauch, Würzburg 1920 (9th edition)
  • Andreas M. Back: Sister Maria Julitta, her spiritual legacy. Hartdruck, Volkach 1970
  • Günter Beaugrand (ed.): The new saints: Great Christians on the way to holiness or beatification. Pattloch, Augsburg 1991 ISBN 3-629-00579-9
  • Barbara Schraut: A mystic of the 20th century? Trinity and Marian mysticism by Sister Maria Julitta Ritz. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 1992 (vol. 54) pp. 409-436.
  • Paul-Werner Scheele: The best relationships. Sister Maria Julitta's way and direction. Echter, Würzburg 1992. ISBN 3-429-01453-0
  • Paul-Werner Scheele: Knowledge of faith with the help of spiritual experience: the testimony of Sister Maria Julitta Ritz CSR. In: Armin Kreiner; Perry Schmidt-Leukel (ed.): Religious experience and theological reflection: Festschrift for Heinrich Döring . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1993. ISBN 3-87088-772-9
  • Paul-Werner Scheele: Our sister. Articles about the life and work of Sister Maria Julitta Ritz CSR. Echter, Würzburg 1995. ISBN 3-429-01690-8
  • Paul-Werner Scheele: Sister Maria Julitta Ritz. Maria and Martha at the same time. Echter, Würzburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-429-04430-5
  • Armin Strohmeyr: Witnesses of faith of the modern age: the saints and blessed of the 20th and 21st centuries. Patmos, Mannheim 2010. ISBN 978-3-491-72547-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Hock: Brief Instructions for Learning to Change in the Presence of God. Online version of a small print (Leutesdorf 1925) that outlines the main features of Hock's teaching.
  2. ↑ Note about the lecture by Erik Soder von Güldenstubbe: Konrad Hock, the first spiritual of the Redeemer Sisters in Würzburg - Notes on his life and his spiritual writings (PDF; 75 kB) at the working group Order History 19./20. Century , tenth scientific conference at the Institute for Theology and History of Religious Communities of the Philosophical-Theological College Vallendar, 5th to. February 7, 2010, p. 3.
  3. ^ Message from Vatican Radio on December 19, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ritz, Maria Julitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritz, Theresia Eleonore; Ritz, Theresia E .; Ritz, Maria J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic nun and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Uissigheim
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1966
Place of death Wurzburg