Bernardin Schellenberger

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Bernardin Schellenberger
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Bernd Schellenberger

(1944-02-13) 13 February 1944 (age 79)
Ellwangen, Germany
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Bernardin Schellenberger (born 11 February 1944) is a German Catholic theologian, priest and former Trappist. He has worked as a writer and translator, focused on spiritual topics and the monastic tradition.

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Life

Bernd Schellenberger [1] [2] was born in Ellwangen, [3] and grew up in Stuttgart. [1] He completed school in 1963 with the Abitur at the Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium  [ de ]. He then became a novice at the Franciscan Kloster Dietfurt  [ de ], taking the monastic name Bernardin. [2] He studied philosophy at the Hochschule der Bayerischen Franziskaner in Munich from 1964 to 1966, when he moved to Mariawald Abbey, a monastery of Trappists in Heimbach. [1] [2] Two years later, he studied monastic theology at the Abbaye du Mont-des-Cats  [ fr ]. He continued theology studies at the University of Salzburg in 1969/70 and at the University of Freiburg from 1969 to 1972, graduating with the Diplom. [1]

Schellenberger was consecrated as a priest in 1972. In 1975, he became prior of Mariawald. [1] He published books and translated from 1978, first translating Henri Nouwen's The Genesee Diary – Report from a Trappist Monastery. [3] He translated more works by Nouwen, Richard Rohr and many other American, French and Irish authors, with topics such as Zen meditation, Jewish mysticism, Church history, dealing with illness, improving health, family affairs, enneagram and social criticism. [3]

In 1981, Schellenberger and two other friars left Mariawald and tried a community in an empty parish house in Donzdorf, but failed. [1] He lived in the Abbey of the Genesee in Genesee County, New York from 1982, [3] returning to Donzdorf in 1983, where he lived as a freelance writer. Beginning in 1988, he has lived and worked at times in Togo, helping Africans. [1] [3] [4] In 1991, he married a woman with two children, for whom he cared. They separated in 1998. He has lived in Bad Tölz from 2006. [1]

Publications

Works by Schellenberger are held by the German National Library, including: [5]

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Hymn

Schellenberger wrote the text of the hymn "Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet" (Blessed who is met by Christ on the way), which was included in the 2013 German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob , coupled with a 17th-century melody from Paris. [6]

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References

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  5. "Bücher von Bernardin Schellenberger" (in German). German National Library. 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  6. Ehebruster, Florian (March 2018). "Lied des Monats März 2018 / Gl 275 Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet" (PDF). Diocese of St. Pölten (in German). Retrieved 2 May 2022.

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