Rawaseneng Monastery

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Pertapaan Rawaseneng
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Entrance to Rawaseneng Monastery
Monastery information
Full namePertapaan Santa Maria Rawaseneng
Order Trappist (OCSO)
Established1 April 1953
Mother house Koningshoeven Abbey, Tilburg, Netherlands
Dedicated to Saint Mary
Diocese Archdiocese of Semarang
People
Founder(s) Dom Bavo van der Ham, OCSO
AbbotDom Aloysius Gonzaga Rudiyat, OCSO
Important associated figuresDom Frans Harjawiyata, OCSO
Site
LocationNgemplak Village,
Kandangan, Temanggung, Central Java
CountryFlag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
Coordinates 7°13′1″S110°12′36″E / 7.21694°S 110.21000°E / -7.21694; 110.21000 Coordinates: 7°13′1″S110°12′36″E / 7.21694°S 110.21000°E / -7.21694; 110.21000 [1]
Public accessYes, outside cloistered area

Rawaseneng Monastery (Indonesian : Pertapaan Rawaseneng, Pertapaan Santa Maria Rawaseneng) is a monastery complex of the Catholic Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.), popularly known as the Trappists, located in Temanggung Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The monastery was officially established on 1 April 1953 as a daughter house of Koningshoeven Abbey in Tilburg, Netherlands. Apart from being a residence for the monks, there are also a church, prayer garden, retreat houses, coffee plantations, dairy farms along with the processing industries within the monastery complex. Ronald Bell, a pilgrim from the United States, shares his impression about this place, "You will get all the stages, praying, meditating, contemplating sacred readings, and working. All of those constitute an inseparable part of the experience." [2] Not far from the monastery complex, it lies the Church of Santa Maria dan Yoseph as the center of the Rawaseneng Parish, [3] just ahead of the Kindergarten and Elementary School of Fatima Rawaseneng which are managed by the Dominican nuns. [4]

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Like the monks in other Trappist monasteries, the monks of Rawaseneng Monastery lives on prayer and works of their hands. The results of their works on coffee plantations, dairy farms, and bakery/cake industries become the main source of livelihood of the monks in the monastery, [5] thus they do not live by relying on contribution from the congregation. [2] In his address during the 60th anniversary celebration of the Rawaseneng Monastery on 25 August 2013, Archbishop Johannes Pujasumarta said, "Together with the nuns of the Trappist Gedono, they present a Church that prays and works in the Archdiocese of Semarang." [6]

Superiors

Superiors of the community since the official establishment in 1953: [5]

Daughter houses

Rawaseneng Monastery has founded following daughter houses: [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Pertapaan St Maria Rawaseneng, wikimapia, retrieved May 9, 2016
  2. 1 2 VIDEO: Biara Rawaseneng, Oase bagi Jiwa yang Letih (in Indonesian), liputan6.com, December 26, 2012, Anda akan mendapatkan keseluruhan tahapannya, berdoa, meditasi, merenungkan bacaan suci, dan bekerja. Semua itu merupakan bagian tidak terpisahkan dari pengalaman ini.
  3. ↑ Jadwal Misa Keuskupan Agung Semarang (in Indonesian), www.imankatolik.or.id, retrieved May 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Aisyah 2004 , p. 22-23
  5. 1 2 3 Rawaseneng, Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, retrieved April 29, 2016
  6. ↑ Mgr. Johannes Pujasumarta, Syukur atas 60 Tahun Pertapaan Rawaseneng (in Indonesian), www.pujasumarta.web.id, archived from the original on June 2, 2016, retrieved May 14, 2016, Bersama dengan para rubiah Trappist Gedono, mereka menghadirkan Gereja yang berdoa dan bekerja di Keuskupan Agung Semarang.
  7. ↑ Simon Nany, Lamanabi, Pesona Alam dan Biara Trappist di Ujung Timur Pulau Flores (in Indonesian), Direktori Pariwisata Nusa Tenggara Timur, retrieved May 1, 2016
  8. ↑ Macau, Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, retrieved April 30, 2016
  9. ↑ Community Our Lady Star of Hope, www.trappistine-community-our-lady-star-of-hope.org, retrieved April 30, 2016

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