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Difficult Beginnings
Wimmer Wednesday. Every beginning is difficult, but through hard work, patience, and perseverance, we overcame many difficulties and managed to increase and prosper. TO CASSINESE CONGREGATION St. Vincent, March 16, 1858
Wimmer Wednesday. Every beginning is difficult, but through hard work, patience, and perseverance, we overcame many difficulties and managed to increase and prosper. TO CASSINESE CONGREGATION St. Vincent, March 16, 1858
Wimmer Wednesday. There is danger that our missionary fathers, while they are preaching to others, may themselves neglect the Rule. To avoid this, I always send them in pairs to their mission stations, and in another year, I hope to send a third priest to each station. One must always Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. The devil tries all kinds of ways to harm us. Yet the material loss in such cases is always replaced by spiritual gain, in that the proven ones reveal themselves and the chaff is separated from the wheat. TO RUDOLPH VON OBERKAMP St. Vincent, September 18, 1857
Wimmer Wednesday. I am fully aware as you warned me in your last letter of the hazards of too-hurried expansion, and I am not overlooking the dangers that exist for the young priests. My zeal is so impatient, however, that I do not want to delay. We live in youthful, Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. July 30, at 2:00 pm. St. Vincent is an abbey! Father Boniface is abbot. We will educate the bishop’s students charging only board, which will cover our costs. The bishop can visit and supervise his own students as apostolic delegate, but not ours. All according to the statutes Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. On a recent Sunday I visited the seven churches, which is a 20-mile trip. I perspired much and swallowed a lot of dust but suffered no harm otherwise. I was on foot from 1:30 pm until 8:00 pm. TO DEMETRIUS DI MAROGNA Rome, July 29, 1855
Wimmer Wednesday. … he gave me a sign to take a place opposite him, which I did, though I continued standing. The pope called me “abbate” and asked me what language I preferred to speak, Italian or Latin. I chose Latin because I am more acquainted with it, but he Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. Concerning me personally, Count Hohenlohe thinks that I will definitely not become abbot because Cardinal Barnabo told him that I had written too harshly and should expect to receive a penance for it. It is true. I speak plainly, even in Latin, but I used expressions which any Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. I left Munich on March 27 after congratulating Abbot Rupert of Scheyern and receiving 200 florins from him for my travel expenses. The confreres there were very kind. At 4:00 pm, I was in Lindau, at 6:00 pm across Lake Constance in Rohrschach, and at 8:00 pm in Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “We rise at 6:00 am and meditate from 6:30 to 7:00 am. Then we have Prime and Masses. Breakfast (a little coffee or chocolate) follows and then work. At 11:00 am, a high Mass is sung by the choir. Tierce takes place before this, Sext and None afterwards. Read more…