Never Wanting for Work
Wimmer Wednesday. In 1852, as well as today, the monks were never wanting for work. Boniface Wimmer wrote: We are never wanting for work. For one, we have to put up new buildings every year, for which we make the Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. In 1852, as well as today, the monks were never wanting for work. Boniface Wimmer wrote: We are never wanting for work. For one, we have to put up new buildings every year, for which we make the Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Boniface Wimmer gives some insights into manual labor: By laboring, the brothers are to prove that they do not enter the monastery to devote themselves to a life of comfortable leisure, but rather that they are endeavoring to Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. I cannot expect that they will all become priests. Some of them I have to take on from time to time to prepare them for holy confession and communion; but at least many will become priests, and, since Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. In the early 1850s, Boniface Wimmer describes the library and the school at Saint Vincent: We are also very delighted to have a not insignificant library, which contains almost all the Latin Classics, several Greek ones, and very Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. If this were a trivia game involving Saint Vincent, that would be a good question. Since it is Wimmer Wednesday, the answer might be something related to Boniface Wimmer or Saint Vincent. To be more specific, it is Read more…
“The way the situation is here, it is not possible to stand still and to limit oneself to a certain area or place or number: we go forward, we must take hold of every opportunity and expand, even if we Read more…
In 1859 the Abbot of St. Vincent undertook his second journey to Minnesota for visitation. He stopped at St. Cloud and from there went on to St. Joseph, where in those days there were only a few houses. The brothers Read more…
The Minnesotan Benedictines first called the place designated for the future monastery “St. Ludwig on the Lake.” However, since they had already received a title to the so-called “Rothkopf Addition” near the little town of St. Cloud on March 6, Read more…
Abbot Wimmer introduced hospitality in his monastery, according to the Rule of St. Benedict, and he took care of even the poorest travelers, the so-called tramps. The abbot of St. Vincent had made it his mission to establish a Benedictine Read more…
“It was exactly twelve years since I, with four students and fifteen farmers and tradesmen, destined to become lay brothers, left New York (having arrived there on September 16, 1846), and set out for the interior of Pennsylvania in order Read more…