Wimmer Wednesday. Everywhere there is a need for priests, both in the East and especially in the Far West. Often I must turn down an opportune offer for the simple reason that I do not have the people or do not want to divide the work of my priests. Churches Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. It is hardly necessary to report that before the election I told all present that they were under no obligation to choose me, but rather that they were bound by oath to elect the person whom they considered most worthy, because not only the future of the monastery Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. Pray therefore for us that among so many labors and dangers we may not lose the spirit of our Order, the spirit of prayer, of meditation, of internal recollection, of mortification, of humility, and of obedience. Pray that where erudition is lacking, experience, vigilance, and knowledge of the Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. These then are a few of the things that we have accomplished. There are many more things, of course, that we must do. An abbey has been created with a congregation and with the privilege of exemption. We have grown in the spirit and in our own self-assurance. Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. You now see, Most Reverend Confreres, that as far as possible we are working hard to be, or certainly to become, true Benedictines. In our monastery, in the missions, in the care of souls, in literary studies, in promoting the liberal arts, in the splendor of the public Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. Of course, 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 Read more
Wimmer Wednesday. You now see, Most Reverend Confreres, that as far as possible we are working hard to be, or certainly to become, true Benedictines. In our monastery, in the missions, in the care of souls, in literary studies, in promoting the liberal arts, in the splendor of the public Read more
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