St. Augustine

What is new at Klosterneuburg:

• After a summer break, we are back! 
  
  August is a big month for us at Stift Klosterneuburg.  Below you will see all the feast days of the Order, which includes our celebration of the Feast of St. Augustine.  At that time we will be clothing five novices, three novices will become juniors by taking simple vows and one junior will become a Canon by taking solemn vows.
  
  In the meantime, all the candidates will be settling into their new home.  For three of them, this means coming from other countries, Norway and the United States of America.  Then prior to the Feast of St. Augustine, the current novices and the candidates for the novitiate will go on their canonical retreats at Stift Vorau, one of the six houses belonging to the Austrian Congregation of Canons Regular, in preparation for their new positions in the community.

• Feast Days for the Canons in August

   

  • St. Eusebius of Vercelli -- August 2nd
     

  • St. Juliana of Liege -- August 7th
     

  • St. Altmann of Passau -- August 7th (transferred from August 9th)
     

  • Bl. Maurice Tournay -- August 12th
     

  • St. Meinard -- August 13th
     

  • St. Alypius and St. Possidius -- 17th
     

  • St. Monica -- August 27th
     

  • St. Augustine of Hippo -- August 28th
    
     

• Solemnity of St. Augustine of Hippo
  Bishop, Doctor of the Church and Father of the Order
   

  • Wednesday August 27, 2003

     

    • 3:00 p.m.    PONTIFICAL VESPERS
                         with the Reception and Clothing of the Novices
       

    • 5:15 p.m.     SOLEMN OFFICE OF READINGS
                          ("Lateranesermette")
       

    • 6:00 p.m.    EVENING MASS
      
       

  • Thursday, August 28, 2003   
     

    • 7:45 a.m.    MORNING PRAYER (Lauds)   
       

    • 8:00 a.m.     MORNING MASS
       

    • 10:00 a.m    PONTIFICAL MASS
                          Mass C-Dur, D 452 by Franz Schubert
                          Te Deum C-Dur, Hob. XXIIIc:2 by Joseph Haydn
      
                          Principal Celebrant:
                              Abbot General and Propst Bernhard Backovsky
      
                          Homilist:
                              Dom Reinhard Schandl
      
                          Profession of Simple Vows:   
                              Dom Clemens Galban
                              Dom Elias Carr   
                              Dom Josef Norys   
      
                          Profession of Solemn Vows:   
                              Dom Pius Feiler
       

    • 3:00 p.m.    SECOND PONTIFICAL VESPERS
       

    • 6:00 p.m.    EVENING MASS   
      
       

• Coming Next Week!
   

  • A Report about our new parish in Bergen, Norway.
    
    Starting this November Stift Klosterneuburg will assume the pastoral care of a parish in Bergen, one of the largest in Norway.  In so doing, the Canons Regular will return to Norway for the first time since the Protestant Reformation. 
     

  • A Novena for the Feast of St. Augustine