Secular institute of St. Francis de Sales
The Secular Institute of St. Francis de Sales is also known as the Salesian World Institute or Sisters of Sale . The Austrian community after the church right one institute of consecrated life within the Roman Catholic Church and the secular institute recognized. It was founded in Vienna in 1939 by the Salesian religious priest Franz Reisinger OSFS (1889–1973).
history
The nucleus of the secular institute is a small discussion group of women, which was founded in 1939 by the Provincial of the Austrian-South German Order Province , the Salesian Franz Reisinger. Reisinger worked as a pastor in the Vienna parish of St. Anna. Within the group, the desire to found a binding community developed and so they created a set of rules together with Father Reisinger and gave themselves the provisional name “Sales Sisters” . In 1939, 2 women joined the new women's community, which grew to 20 members by 1944.
Archbishop Theodor Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna granted on April 19, 1947 permission to unite believers . This association was given the status of a secular institute of diocesan law by Cardinal Franz König in 1964 . Father Reisinger was the spiritual assistant until his death. Today the sales sisters work in Brazil , Germany , Ecuador , Namibia , Nigeria , Austria and the USA . Your generalate is based in Vienna.
In the middle of life
According to the evangelical counsels , the Salessisters commit themselves to live in poverty, to be celibate and to obey . In addition to the sisters who took the vow, there are also associated members (men and women without vows) in the secular institute. The spiritual core of the community lies in the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales and the rules of the order established for the Salesians .
The members do not live in any communities, they are “in the middle of life”, in their profession and in their selected areas of life. The women practice communal life at regular meetings, days of reflection , retreats and personal encounters. Unmarried or widowed women between the ages of 25 and 60 can apply for admission. The introductory period of two years ends with the performance of the vow .
See also
Web links
- Website Secular Institute of St. Francis de Sales
- Secular institute of St. Francis de Sales in the diocese of Aachen
- Working group of Austrian secular institutes
Individual evidence
- ^ Annakirche Vienna - Church of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales [1]
- ↑ Spiritual Assistant: P. Dr. Maximilian Hofinger OSFS, church rector erzdioezese-wien.at ( Memento from March 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )