Today, Sunday 29 August 2021, our Fr Rupert joined our Benedictine community in Admont forever!
Solemn profession of Fr Rupert Schwarz OSB
Sunday, 29 August 2021
Today, Sunday 29 August 2021, our Fr Rupert has joined our Benedictine community in Admont for good! We are very happy about this step and wish him God's rich blessing for his work as an Admont Benedictine!
From the abbot's sermon:
"Prayer is the seriousness of faith. For us Christians it says: Oro ergo sum - I pray therefore I am, that defines a homo christanus - a Christian. A Christian cannot be defined at all without prayer - how much more so for a monk."
Press release on the celebration:
"God will fulfil": frater Rupert Schwarz celebrates his perpetual profession
In the company of his confreres, religious women and men from 15 different communities, his family and many friends, frater Rupert (Martin) Schwarz made his solemn profession into the hands of Abbot Gerhard Hafner OSB on the afternoon of 29 August in Admont Abbey Church. - Like the three parts of a psalm, the many people in attendance were able to experience the speeches: Prior Maximilian Schiefermüller quoted the motto of the founder of Admont, Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg: You will begin, God will finish. He thus set the theme. - Abbot Gerhard Hafner's sermon explained the content, comparable to the sentences of a psalm: frater Rupert has many abilities: his radiant, cordial nature, his musicality as an organist and singer, his love for disabled people and his practical approach as a graduate of the wood technology centre in Kuchl and a trained confectioner. Abbot Gerhard explained the content of the vow: "I pray, therefore I am." Choral prayer is the oxygen that moulds us into a monastery. Faithfulness to choral prayer is living proof of love for God. - In his words of thanks, Frater Rupert added his "Amen". He particularly emphasised the importance of his "mum" Franziska: "You are the most patient person I know; I am the proof of that! - May God complete the good work he has begun in Frater Rupert!
Photos: © Thomas Sattler
