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. … 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…
Wimmer Wednesday “Thus far, we have had a very enjoyable voyage, except that on February 3, a very heavy storm rose from the southwest and lasted for 12 hours. Our old Canada endured, though with pants and groans. It was in the region where the Arctic went down. I felt Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “If the saying is true, ‘where your treasure is there is your heart,’ who could be surprised that we love what we accomplished with so much labor?” BONIFACE WIMMER TO KARL VON REISACH St. Vincent, August 7, 1854 Letters of An American Abbot
Wimmer Wednesday “It becomes increasingly clear that the prejudice commonly held against Americans–that they do not want to become priests–is unfounded. I am sure that in a short time I will have 100 boys, or as many as I can accommodate, who want to become priests, and only a few Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “Like Noah’s ark, all sorts of creatures from everywhere gather under our roof. Often, too, useless creatures, who disappear after a while or get thrown out, come. To him who knocks, the door is opened. Some leave soon, others only after months. Some even return and are admitted Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday “Learning and pastoral care are attended to with all zeal and energy wherever Benedictines enter the field. To erect a German seminary was my aim. It has been fulfilled to a great extent.” BONIFACE WIMMER TO GREGORY SCHERR Latrobe, Pa., February 28, 1854 Letters of An American Abbot