Societas Adunationis

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The Societas Adunationis ( lat . : Congregatio Fratrum Adunationis Tertii Regularis Ordinis S. Francisci , order abbreviation : SA, de .: Regulated Franziskaner-Terziarier von der Reunification Paul Francis Wattson , en . : Friars of the Atonement or Society of the Atonement , fr. : Frères de l'Atonement ) is an originally Episcopalian , later a Catholic religious order of the Third Order in the family of the Franciscan Order .

history

The Anglican religious order "Congregatio Fratrum Adunationis Tertii Regularis Ordinis S. Francisci" was founded in 1899 by Father Paul Francis Wattson in Graymoor , New York according to the rules of the order of the Franciscans and belonged to the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. They found their first home in the neighborhood of St. Philip's Church in the Highlands . In building the community, Wattson was accompanied by Sister Lurana White, who was also interested in a Franciscan religious community. The members of the Order of the resulting "Society of the Atonement" were known as the "Gray Friars Moor" (monks of Gray Moor), their joint work should atonement and reconciliation (s .: atonement) be. In the following period there were considerable differences of opinion between the community and the Episcopal Church, the majority of the members of the order acknowledged the rules of the Roman Catholic Franciscan order.

In 1907 the General Assembly of the Episcopal churches gave the sermon law also preachers of other denominations . This split the similarities between Wattson and the Episcopal Church, and the break followed. On October 30, 1909, Paul Francis Wattson joined the Roman Catholic Church along with other converts. The now Roman Catholic community grew more and more, and they took on their first missionary assignment in Texas and then in British Columbia . In 1949 they opened a mission in Japan and an office in Rome . The General House is also in Rome . In the late 1950s, the first religious went to Brazil , Jamaica and the West Indies . To date, they have expanded their missionary work to England , Canada, and the United States .

Order founder Paul Francis Wattson

Paul Francis Wattson was born in 1863 to a clergyman of the Episcopal Church. On October 30, 1909, he was accepted into the community of the Roman Catholic Church by the Roman Catholic priest Joseph Conroy (later Bishop of Ogdensburg ). Ordained a priest in Dunwoodie in 1910, he founded the Saint Christopher's Inn (an inn for the homeless), the Graymoor Press and, with Richard Doyle, the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Wattson initiated the world octave of prayer from which today's World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity arose. The World Week of Prayer is held annually between January 18 and 25 by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and was endorsed by Pope Pius X (1903–1914) in 1910 and Pope Benedict XV in 1916 . (1914–1922) spread to the Catholic Church. Wattson died in 1940.

Adunatio

In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians , the apostle writes about the service of “reconciliation”:

“So if someone is in Christ, then he is a new creation: the old has passed, the new has become. But all of this comes from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and charged us with the ministry of reconciliation. Yes, it was God who in Christ reconciled the world to himself by not counting people for their wrongdoings and by entrusting us with the word of reconciliation (for proclamation). "

- 2. Cor 5,17-19 EU

The naming of the religious order is derived from this Bible text and the word reconciliation is the focus here. Derived from English, it also means “reconcilitation”, i.e. reconciliation or the settlement of a dispute. While the English term "atonement" stands for penance or atonement. The Latin "adunatio" denotes the union.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library [1]
  2. ↑ Graymoor is near Garrison, about 85 km north of the mouth of the Hudson River in the Atlantic
  3. ↑ The portal to the Catholic spiritual world: Paul Francis Wattson [2]
  4. ↑ CNEWA - Early Years [3]
  5. ↑ On the definition of "atonement", John Cardinal Willebrands. THE PAUL WATTSON LECTURE Washington, November 19th, 1974. Archived copy ( Memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)