Pascal Rywalski

Minister General Pascal Rywalski (1976)

Pascal Rywalski OFMCap (born October 2, 1911 in Chelin in the municipality of Lens ; † January 8, 2002 in Sion ) was a Swiss Capuchin .

Life

Pascal Rywalski (baptismal name Konrad) was the son of of Poland -born Johann Rywalski (born September 6, 1879 in Toruń , † January 7, 1947), born and his wife Agatha Emery (born May 23, 1882 in Lens , † September 16, 1959), born. He had nine siblings.

He attended high school in Saint-Maurice from 1924 and entered the Capuchin Order in Lucerne as a novice on September 13, 1930, and received his simple profession on September 15, 1931 . From 1931 to 1932 he was at the grammar school Kollegium St. Fidelis in Stans and then from 1933 to 1935 he took up his philosophical and theological religious studies in Sion, Freiburg and Solothurn .

On July 4, 1937 he was ordained a priest and from 1938 to 1945 he was a philosophy student at the University of Freiburg , during which time he received his lic. phil. During his studies in 1943 he began to teach at the St. Fidelis College in Stans and received his doctorate on July 25, 1945. before he became a preacher in Freiburg in 1951 . At the beginning of 1954 he was appointed superior in the newly founded hospice in Geneva , where he also worked as a house missionary until 1963 . From 1960 to 1966 he worked as a definitor .

From 1963 to 1966 he was Guardian , Prefect of Studies and Editor in Freiburg and from 1966 to 1970, as Provincial Minister for the Swiss Capuchin Province , he tried to find new ways in the changing pastoral care, for this purpose the chapter in the retreat house St. Francis in Delémont (from January 9th to 13th, 1967) for this task. Another innovation was the press conference on January 17, 1967 in the Wesemlink monastery in Lucerne, to which Catholic and non-Catholic press people were invited, who were given a largely rounded picture of the province's tasks and goals in short presentations.

From 1970 to 1982, as the 69th General Minister in Rome, he initiated the return of the Order to a fraternal life under the banner of the Franciscan ideal of poverty.

Fonts (selection)

• Paul Claudel et les missions . 1946.
• Le P. Pascal Rywalski, OFM Cap .; Paul Claudel : La Bible dans l'œuvre littéraire de Paul Claudel, précédé d'une Méditation sur le Psaume CXVIII, par Paul Claudel. Thèse présentée à la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Friborg, Suisse par Pascal Rywalski . Porrentruy: Editions des Portes de France; Friborg: Impr. St. Paul, 1948.
• Méditation sur le Psaume CXVIII by Paul Claudel . Porrentruy Éditions des Portes de France 1948.
• Pour aimer la messe . Fribour: Presentation de la Sainte Vierge, 1952.
• Petit catéchisme de la Messe . St-Maurice: Ed. de l'Œuvre St-Augustin, 1955.
• Salvator Maschek; Pascal Rywalski: Je ne me suis pas marié à l'église, que faire? Genève: Ed. de l'Echo illustré, ca.1962.
• Jean-Paul Hayoz OFMCap; Félix Tisserand , OFMCap; Pascal RywalskiOFMCap: Documents relatifs aux capucins de la province de Savoie en Valais, 1603-1766 . Martigny, Suisse: Impr. Pillet, 1967.
• Renewal in Fidelity: Continuation of the 1965 guidelines . Lucerne: Fidelisdr, 1968.
• Address by Father General Pascal Rywalski at the opening of the first meeting of the Order Council in Quito, October 4th, 1971 . 1971.
• Statutum pro assistentia spirituali: Tertii Ordinis Franciscani (TOF) . Romae: Curia Generale FF. MM. Cappuccini, 1972.
• Francesco Saverio Toppi ; Zacharie Balet; Pascal Rywalski: Flamme d'Orient: le vénérable frère Jérémie de Tzazo (Valachie, Roumanie) 1556-1625 . Lucerne: Fidelis print, 1983.

literature

• Pascal Rywalski in texts on the village history of Untervaz. List of the Provincials of the Swiss Capuchins 1581–2013 . Bern 1974. p. 46.

Web links

• Christian Schweizer: Rywalski, Pascal. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .