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Nightfever is an initiative of young Catholics for the new evangelization , which arose as a continuation of the Vigil of the World Youth Day 2005 . The street mission , which is a core element, sets Nightfever apart from other worship evenings.

Concept and process

Nightfever in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Fulda

For Nightfever, a central Catholic church is being designed in an area that is lively in the evening with lights and colored cloths.

Passers-by are invited by volunteers in the street to come into the church for a few minutes to light a candle. Eucharistic adoration takes place in the church , songs and instrumental music create a special atmosphere. In the side area of ​​the church there are priests who offer a pastoral conversation or the sacrament of reconciliation . It is possible to receive the blessing from a priest . Every Nightfever evening begins with a holy mass and ends - often after midnight - with the Eucharistic blessing . Every visitor can come and go when they want.

Emergence

According to his own account, it was two theology students from Bonn, Katharina Fassler-Maloney (member of the Emmanuel Community ) and Andreas Süß (candidate for the priesthood of the Archdiocese of Cologne), who brought Nightfever into being because the XX. World Youth Day should “go on” with the positive experience of churches full of young people praying and singing. Especially the vigil on the Marienfeld on August 20, 2005, at which a Eucharistic adoration took place for the first time during a World Youth Day, formed a point of reference for Nightfever.

The first Nightfever evening took place at the beginning of the winter semester on October 29, 2005 in Bonn. According to Suss, the first step was “ to revitalize the spiritual center of the Italians - St. Remigius in downtown Bonn - with students from various faculties and spiritual communities. The congregation took part from the start and supported the young missionaries with prayer and cake donations. ”It was planned as a one-off event; the concept was based on the “Mercy Evening” of the Emmanuel Community , which is part of the Charismatic Movement in the Catholic Church. This consists of a designed worship and street mission. There was such an evening of mercy on World Youth Day in Rome. At the World Youth Days in Cologne and Sydney, Emmanuel offered Nightfever evenings and thus provided the name for the Nightfever initiative. However, the Nightfever offer of the Emmanuel Community on these two World Youth Days differed in design and content from the Community's Mercy Evening, thus also from the Nightfever evenings suggested by Fassler-Maloney and Süß.

Nightfever in the Basilica of Marienstatt

Due to the great response, the prayer evening in Bonn continued to be held monthly and from there it has now spread to more than 45 German cities and 21 countries worldwide (as of 2014). In Bonn up to 1000 visitors take part in the event. Due to the special location of Cologne Cathedral, up to 3000 visitors come to a Nightfever evening there.

Church voices

In 2006, Cardinal Joachim Meisner from Cologne, the organizer of the World Youth Day, was the first local bishop to emphasize the importance of the Nightfever concept for youth pastoral care. He saw it as a spiritual fruit of World Youth Day. On December 16, 2006, Cardinal Meisner took part in a Nightfever campaign in Cologne Cathedral for the first time, after having celebrated Holy Mass at the Nightfever in St. Remigius in Bonn at the beginning of November . The writing I pray near you. Handout with impulses for Eucharistic Adoration (Cologne 2010) sought to make the concept useful for parish pastoral work. Cardinal Meisner promoted Nightfever several times.

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch mentioned Nightfever in his speech at the opening of the 16th International Renovabis Congress on August 30, 2012 on the subject of “Discovering Faith Today - New Ways of Evangelization in Europe” alongside faith courses , Bible parts , low-threshold offers from City Pastoral and holiday pastoral care as an example of missionary presence in Germany.

Also the bishops Ludwig Schick (Bamberg), Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (Speyer), Ulrich Neymayr (Erfurt), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (Limburg), Matthias König (Paderborn), Stephan Ackermann (Trier), Rainer Maria Woelki ( Cologne), Konrad Zdarsa (Augsburg) and Felix Genn (Münster) said they were positive about Nightfever.

Liturgical evaluation

Matthias Sellmann sees Nightfever as “a child of the iconic turn ”; The organizers used the possibilities of modern event culture in a professional manner, for example room enchantment in the sense of liturgical “ cocoonings ”, simulative user guidance , stimulation of cultural consumption, suggestion of common content focus, reduction of discursive in favor of spherical self- assurance . It is astonishing that the “easily recognizable focus on the Church, the Eucharist and the clergy” does not detract from the success of Nightfever.

Alexander Zerfaß interprets Nightfever as an attempt “to reinterpret a traditional prayer practice in a contemporary way with Eucharistic adoration and to stage it.” The organizers are practicing Catholics, that is, the core community; However, it addresses passers-by on the street, many of whom are non-practicing Catholics or do not even belong to the Catholic Church. Although every Nightfever event begins with a mass, the majority of the participants are not present at this service and do not receive the Eucharist very often. Perhaps the monstrance appears to them as a “more or less interchangeable accessory for the atmospheric interior design of the church.” While the Eucharistic celebration and Eucharistic adoration are closely related, this connection is relaxed in the concept of Nightfever. The host as a meta-symbol, in which Christ is venerated as physically real present, has broken away from the meal, in which , according to the biblical words of institution , Christ is present in the bread shared by the disciples. Similar to Winfried Haunerland : the organizers made a strong distinction between Mass, in which only church members take part, and Eucharistic adoration, in which everyone is allowed to participate in their own individual way. "While the conditions for admission to sacramental communion are adhered to, the organizers obviously have no difficulty in staging Eucharistic adoration as an almost limitlessly open worship service."

Kim de Wildt describes Nightfever as "one of the few popular and growing new liturgical forms." She wonders whether Nightfever is the right answer to decreasing attendance at church services. With regard to the theological evaluation, she refers to Sellmann's analysis. It is inevitable that Nightfever, with its certain aesthetics and noncommittment, creates something that most liturgies cannot: “It brings young people into the church and it looks as if one hopes for a spiritual experience from this church visit. "

Organizational form

The local offer of a Nightfever evening is part of the international Nightfever initiative, which sees itself as a “prayer movement by young Christians in the Catholic Church”. Two volunteers between the ages of 18 and 35, who are “firmly in the faith”, serve as local contacts for the initiative. Together with other young people who are “passionate about making God's love and mercy tangible”, they go through a six-month preparatory path and receive training; after that they get permission to offer Nightfever in their place. Fassler-Maloney and Suss published a Nightfever guide.

In addition to the evening of prayer, Nightfever has been offering further in-depth faith offers since 2011:

In the first few years Nightfever used the logo of the XX. World Youth Day in Cologne. The logo was mostly used in a plain white. From 2009, the lettering “XX. World Youth Day Cologne 2005 ”has been omitted under the logo. As Nightfever became more and more established, its own logo was developed in 2010. The Nightfever lettering stands above a stylized red flame, which, based on the Emmaus story ( Lk 24 : 13–35  EU ), symbolizes the heart that has burned for faith.

Venues

Nightfever usually takes place in centrally located Catholic inner-city churches.

Since 2010 Nightfever has been spreading outside of the German-speaking area, in the Netherlands , Denmark , the United Kingdom , Ireland , Canada , Spain and India . In 2017, according to Nightfever e. V. ( Monheim am Rhein ) took place 554 Nightfever evenings in 209 cities worldwide.

The basilica of Marienstatt

Nightfever takes place regularly in the following churches, mostly on a monthly or bi-monthly basis:

place church Beginning country
Aachen St. Foillan 2009 Germany
augsburg Dom 2008
Bamberg Imperial Cathedral 2012
Bayreuth Castle Church 2013
Berlin St. Boniface 2007
Bochum St. Peter and Paul 2013
Bonn St. Remigius 2005
Dusseldorf St. Lambertus 2008
Erfurt St. Lorenz 2006
eat Essen Minster 2012
Frankfurt am Main Kaiserdom or Liebfrauenkirche 2012
Freiburg in Breisgau St. Martin 2006
Fulda Holy Spirit Church 2011
Goettingen St. Michael 2012
Gummersbach St. Francis 2007
Heidelberg St. Anna 2011
Höhr-Grenzhausen St. Peter and Paul 2007
Jena St. John Baptist 2009
kassel St. Elisabeth 2013
Cologne Dom 2006
Limburg on the Lahn City Church 2012
Mainz Augustinian Church 2006
Mannheim St. Sebastian 2013
Munich St. Peter 2010
Muenster St. Lamberti 2010
Neustadt an der Aisch St. John 2013
Nuremberg St. Elisabeth 2008
Osnabrück St. Johann 2012
Paderborn Market Church 2008
regensburg Collegiate Church of St. Johann 2011
Rheinbach St. Martin 2011
Saarbrücken St. John's Basilica 2008
Streithausen (Westerwald) Marienstatt Abbey 2008
Stuttgart St. Eberhard Cathedral 2013
trier St. Gangolf 2007
Wurzburg Carmelite Monastery 2009
Wuppertal St. Laurence 2007
Bangalore St. Anthony's Friary 2015 India
Graz Franciscan Church 2010 Austria
Vienna Minorite Church 2008
Basel St. Clara 2009 Switzerland
Copenhagen St. Ansgars 2011 Denmark
Oldenzaal St. Plechelmus Basilica 2010 Netherlands
Birmingham Our Lady and All Saints 2012 United Kingdom
Glasgow St. Aloysius 2012
London St. Patricks Catholic Church 2012
Halifax St. Mary's Basilica 2012 Canada
Dublin St. Theresa's Church 2013 Ireland
Valencia San Nicolás 2013 Spain
Goiânia Sao Pio X 2013 Brazil
San Miguel Catedral de San Miguel 2015 Argentina

On various occasions, such as the Catholic Day , the Ecumenical Church Day or on church nights, there are Nightfever in other cities as a “Nightfever special”. During the 2012 Summer Olympics , Nightfever was held on six evenings at St. Patricks Catholic Church and St. Catherine Catholic Church . Often the specials also take place in advance of a permanent settlement of Nightfever. There were Nightfever Specials for example in 2012 and a. in Bamberg ( Cathedral and Martinskirche ), Kempten (Allgäu) in St. Lorenz Basilica , Mannheim, Sydney, Split, Rome ( Santa Maria dell'Anima ) and Roermond, 2013 a. a. in Potsdam ( Peter and Paul Church ).

In small towns or villages, Nightfever also takes place under the name of the Evening of Light . The stay & pray events in Munich and Münster follow a similar concept.

literature

Matthias Sellmann : God is young! Church too ?: Trends and projects in youth pastoral theory and practice. In: Voices of the Time 2010, Issue 7, pp. 435–448.

Alexander Zerfaß : The " Tantum ergo " of the 3rd millennium ?: Nightfever in the mirror of communion piety and Eucharist theology. In: Voices of the Time 2015, Issue 9, pp. 623–632 [1] .

Albert Gerhards / Kim de Wildt: Between a modern event and traditional Catholicism. Liturgical inquiries to Nightfever . In: Liturgisches Jahrbuch 65/2 (2015), pp. 91-104.

Hanns-Gregor Nissing, Andreas Süß (Ed.): Nightfever. Theological foundations. Pneuma Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-942013-19-2 (180 pages).

Web links

Commons : Nightfever  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  7. ^ A b Hanns-Gregor Nissing, Andreas Suess: Nightfever: theological foundations . Munich 2013, p. 20
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  11. ↑ Address by the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Dr. Robert Zollitsch, on the opening of the 16th International Renovabis Congress "Discovering Faith Today - New Ways of Evangelization in Europe" in Freising on August 30, 2012. In: Press releases from the German Bishops' Conference. August 30, 2012, accessed April 4, 2019 .
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  13. ↑ Matthias Sellmann: God is young! Church too? , P. 442.
  14. ↑ Alexander Zerfaß: The Tantum ergo of the third millennium? , P. 629.
  15. ↑ a b Alexander Zerfaß: The Tantum ergo of the third millennium? , P. 630.
  16. ↑ Winfried Haunerland: Space between Church and World? Liturgical considerations on participation in Christian worship . In: Kim de Wildt, Benedikt Kranemann, Andreas Odenthal (eds.): Between space worship: Contributions to a multi-perspective liturgical science . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 78–91, here p. 81.
  17. ↑ Kim de Wildt: Please do not speak to the driver while driving! Religious ritual in postmodern times. In: Martin Stuflesser, Tobias Weyler (eds.), Liturgical norms: Justifications, inquiries, perspectives , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2018, pp. 245–252, here p. 251.
  18. ↑ I'm interested in Nightfever. In: Nightfever. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Excerpts can be viewed online in the impulse booklet for the Heilig-Rock-Pilgrimage 2012. Pilgrimage Office of the Heilig-Rock-Pilgrimage (ed.): Come, we adore him! , therein: Learn from Nightfever (pp. 16–19).
  20. ↑ Hanns-Gregor Nissing, Andreas Sweet: Night Fever: Theological Foundations . Munich 2013, p. 177.
  21. ↑ Nightfever Explore
  22. ↑ WYD logo on Nightfever flyer from Nightfever Bonn 2008. Accessed on January 14, 2016 .
  23. ↑ That was the Nightfever year 2015 - 554 Nightfever evenings in 209 cities worldwide. Website nightfever.org. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  24. ↑ Andreas Süß (ed.): Nightfever annual magazine 2012 . lorenzspringer medien, Munich 2012.
  25. ↑ An offer with a deeper meaning - Nightfever at the Olympic Games. In: domradio.de. September 4, 2012, accessed December 19, 2012 .