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Requests for Solemn and Simple Vows Granted...

 

 


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DANIEL STEPHEN NASH

AND

ALIPIUS CLAUS MÜLLER

 

ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

 

THEIR ADMISSION TO SOLEMN VOWS

 

BY CONSENT OF THE CHAPTER

OF STIFT KLOSTERNEUBURG

 

THE SOLEMN PROFESSION WILL TAKE PLACE

ON THE SOLEMNITY OF SAINT AUGUSTINE;

THURSDAY, THE 28th of august, 2008

at ten o'clock in the morning

in the basilica of stift klostereuburg

 

  

DANIEL STEPHEN NASH

und

ALIPIUS CLAUS MÜLLER

 

freuen sich,

 

IHRE ZULASSUNG ZUR EWIGEN PROFESS

 

durch das kapitel des stiftes klosterneuburg

bekanntgeben zu dürfen.

 

die ablegung der gelübde findet

am donnerstag, dem 28. august 2008, um 10 uhr

am hochfest des heiligen augustinus

in der stiftsbasilika klosterneuburg statt.

 

 



 

 

On May 9th, the Chapter of Stift Klosterneuburg voted to admit Dom Daniel and Dom Alipius to its ranks through the profession of solemn vows on the solemnity of St. Augustine on August 28th.  With joyful anticipation we await this happy occasion and look forward to Dom Daniel's continued service as the pastor of the parish of St. Leopold in Donaufeld and to the eventual priestly ordination of Dom Alipius, who in the meantime is studying theology at the Angelicum in Rome.




 



 

 

 

Additionally, the Chapter voted to permit Dom Ĉgidius, Dom Anselm and Dom Florian to proceed on their path to the priesthood as Canons Regular of St. Augustine through the profession for three years of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.  Dom Florian and Dom Ĉgidius expect to begin studies at the pontifical seminary of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz.  Dom Anselm will continue with his studies at the University of Vienna, where he had studied prior to his entering the novitiate.

 

 

 

New Altar and Sanctuary Accoutrements

 

 

On April 25, 2008 Abbot General Bernard Backovsky consecrated a new marble Volksaltar or "people's altar" for the Stift's basilica.  It was decided at the beginning of the multi-year renovation of the church that improvements would also be made to the sanctuary. 

A committee of the Chapter supervised this project and sought concepts, eventually choosing an artist who realized his vision of a new altar and other sanctuary furniture through his imaginative interaction with the iconography of the abbey. 

 

 

2008 marks the 900th anniversary of the first historically verifiable mention of an altar on the site of the abbey.

 

 

 

The liturgical ensemble consists of an altar,

an ambo, a candelabra, and a processional cross.

 

 

 

 

The altar, built symbolically out of 12 stones for the Apostles with a red capstone representing Christ, is concave on the people's side -- an invitation to the Faithful to take part in the Eucharistic Sacrifice.  The word "Amen" is visible in the stones' interstices.

 

Decorating the otherwise sleek pulpit, made of the same brilliant Transfiguration white stone as the altar, are the Greek letters Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

 

 

 

 

The processional cross fits into an oddly-shaped holder, the blade of a shovel protruding out of bronzed dirt, which reminds us of the reverse side of the casing made for the Verdun Altar in the 1330's on which the "Noli me tangere" is depicted, the scene in which Mary Magdalen mistakes the Risen Christ for the gardener.

 

 

 

The candelabra brings us back to the foundation of the Stift by embodying the Legend of Agnes' Veil, the veil which Leopold found miraculously preserved in an Elderberry Tree on the site of which the present-day Basilica stands. Emblazoned on the billowing veil-candelabra is half of the Stift's coat-of-arms.

 

 

 

 

 

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