Center for funeral pastoral care of the Limburg diocese

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Church of St. Michael from the southwest
Logo of the Diocese of Limburg

The diocese of Limburg's center for mourning pastoral care is a so-called profile church of the diocese of Limburg . The central goal of the work of the center is a reconciled approach to farewell, dying and death on the basis of Christian hope for resurrection . In addition, the church also regular of the Center services celebrated. The center is located in Frankfurt - Nordend in a residential area .

history

Place of baptism in the entrance area
Place of remembrance of the dead in the chancel

In 2004, the then bishop of the Limburg diocese, Franz Kamphaus, carried out a visitation trip through the parishes in Frankfurt am Main. With a view to the city of Frankfurt, one result was how a metropolis deals with dying and death and how Christians can set special signals. On January 15, 2007, Bishop Franz Kamphaus signed the deed for the establishment of a center for mourning pastoral care in the former parish church of St. Michael in the Nordend district of Frankfurt. This document came into effect on July 1, 2007. Like the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Frankfurt-Bornheim , in which the center for Christian meditation and spirituality of the Limburg diocese is located, the Church of St. Michael is now a branch church of the parish of St.-Josef Frankfurt am Main , based in Frankfurt -Bornheim.

The center is a pastoral institution of the diocese and reports to the department head for pastoral services of the episcopal ordinariate (status 12/2017: Dr. Hildegard Wustmans). Until 2019, a pastor of the priestly community Oratory of Saint Philipp Neri and a religious sister of the Congregatio Jesu were responsible for the offer, and since January 1, 2020, pastoral advisor Verena Maria Kitz. She accompanies the planning for the first urn burial church in the diocese of Limburg and works in cooperation with the city church on the reformatting of the concept of the Center for Funeral Pastoral. It was the first facility of its kind in Germany .

program

The offer of the house is Christian , but is aimed at people of all denominations , world views and cultures . The team publishes a program every six months. The center offers pastoral care and assistance in dying and death ; Terminal care ; Accompaniment for survivors in individual or group discussions; Information events about farewell, transience , dying and death and the qualification of voluntary workers. It is a place of remembrance of the dead in personal prayer or intercession in community in worship. Internal and external lectures and seminars on topics such as the burial culture , living will or Lamentations offered. There are tours of cemeteries in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. As a specialist department of the Pastoral Services Department in the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Limburg, church interests and positions in the area of pastoral care for mourning are formulated. The center has a small chapel as a farewell room, in which laying out is also possible. A hall is available for funeral events. A specialist library covers the subject areas of funeral pastoral care with a focus on bereavement support and funeral culture. The church is open for devotion by the hour in the afternoons .

remodeling

The transformation of the parish church into the church of the Center for Mourning Pastoral Care led to two liturgical accents inside: a place of baptism and a place of remembrance of the dead were established. The place of the baptismal commemoration includes a baptismal font that was set up at the intersection of the axes of the two entrances. This is complemented by a stone stele that serves as a candlestick for the Easter candle and was set up in the place of the old baptismal font. Ludwig Becker's floor mosaic was transferred from the church to the entrance area of ​​the center. The location of the dead remembrance is prior to the chancel between the first bank rows and consists of an in with slate inserted occupied floor and four chandeliers encircled plate of sandstone . On this is the book of the dead with the names of the deceased from the parish of St. Michael (until 2007) or St. Josef. The coffin or flowers and candles can be placed here for requies or farewell parties . A glass window created by Georg Meistermann for the St. Raphael Church in Berlin - Gatow , which was demolished in 2005, was installed in the chapel of the Center for Mourning Pastoral Care next to the church in 2012.

Church and parish

The center is located in the parish of St. Josef Frankfurt am Main , which has been a new type of parish since January 1, 2015, in whose parish there are four churches as so-called church locations and two churches as so-called profile churches . One of these profile churches is the St. Michael church belonging to the center, which is used for the center's events and services. The buildings are administered by the Stadtkirche Frankfurt am Main. The church is also a branch church of the parish of St. Josef with which there is lively cooperation. The parish library is located in the St. Michael premises.

Transport links

The Church of St. Michael is of the stops Nibelungenplatz / FH and coins Straße the line 18 in the Friedberger Landstrasse and from the bus stop "Nibelungenplatz / FH" the Omnibus - lines to reach 30 and 32 in a few minutes.

Web links

Commons : Center for Funeral Pastoral Care of the Diocese of Limburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Michael - Center for Bereavement Counseling. Diocese of Limburg , 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sonja Thelen: Grief hits everyone. Frankfurter Rundschau , November 25, 2011, archived from the original on August 27, 2014 ; accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Diocese of Limburg : Decree of Bishop Franz Kamphaus of January 15, 2007. Published in the Official Gazette of the Diocese of Limburg 2007 No. 2 from 02/01/2007 No. 448: Document on the establishment of the profile church "St. Michael - Center for Mourning Pastoral", Frankfurt am Main. In: Website of the parish of St. Josef Frankfurt . February 1, 2007, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Diocese of Limburg : Pastoral Services Department. In: Website of the Diocese of Limburg. 2018, archived from the original on February 18, 2018 ; accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  5. ^ Diocese of Limburg : New director in the center for mourning pastoral. Profile Church of St. Michael. In: website of the mourning center. December 5, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '52.2 "  N , 8 ° 41' 48.7"  E