Andreas Hönisch

Father Andreas Hönisch SJM (born 3 October 1930 in Habelschwerdt in Lower Silesia, † 25 January, 2008 Blindenmarkt in Lower Austria ) was a Catholic priest from the county of Glatz. He was co-founder of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Europe in Germany and Austria and founder of the Order of Servants of Jesus and Mary ( " Servi Jesus et Mariae ( SJM )").

Life

Hönisch was in Habelschwerdt in Silesia, now Poland Bystrzyca Kłodzka born. After the expulsion, he completed his schooling at the Jesuit Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg. In 1952, he joined the Congregation of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ) on the James near Bingen on the Rhine and moved in 1954 after Tisis in Feldkirch.

From late 1954 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. Between 1957 and 1960 he studied languages ​​in Manila, Philippines, and in Yokosuka, Japan. At the Jesuit Sophia University in Tokyo Kojimachi he was briefly a lecturer in English and German. From 1960 to 1964 he studied theology at the Philosophical- Theological College Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. In 1963 he was ordained priest by the bishop of Berlin, Archbishop Alfred Bengsch. After his Jesuit Tertiate 1964/1965 in Paray -le- Monial, he was youth minister and religion teacher in Berlin. From 1966 to 1977 he worked in pastoral care in Giessen, where he also oversaw groups of the German Scout Association of Saint George ( DPSG ).

In 1976, together with Günther Walter Hönisch the Catholic Scout Association of Europe ( KPE ), in which came together groups that did not agree with the programmatic innovations within the DPSG in the 1970s. Since the founding of the KPE, he was until his death their Bundeskurat.

Although the establishment of the KPE was made ​​with the permission of the Jesuits, forbade a later provincial Hönisch any work in KPE. This refused ( by its own account, after consultation with Cardinal Ratzinger ) to abandon the work in the KPE and then was expelled for disobedience of the Society of Jesus. Bishop Josef Stimpfle incardinated him as a secular priest in the diocese of Augsburg.

End of the 1980s were several members of the KPE, who wanted to be religious priest approached by the suggestion of establishing a new religious community to Hönisch. This they first tried to persuade them to join other orders and invited for this purpose even members of other religious communities to an idea. Since the future priests but not were not scared away from their purpose, a new religious community, the biritualistischen " Servi Jesus et Mariae ( SJM ) " founded in 1988 in Hausen must, as its Founder Andreas Hönisch is generally considered. The foundation was made with the consent of the bishop of Augsburg, Josef Stimpfle.

However, its successor Viktor Josef Dammertz announced the SJM the use of the monastery must Hausen. Thus, the seat of blind market in 1995 moved in the district of Melk. Unlike often claimed there was, however, neither for P. Hönisch nor for the SJM ever a pastoral ban in the diocese of Augsburg. Recognition as a congregation of pontifical right by the Ecclesia Dei Commission was done in 1994. The Order is now in Germany and Austria is active, also in Kazakhstan, Albania, Romania, Ukraine and France.

In 2001 Hönisch went to the alleged Marian apparitions to Medjugorje, which he had previously seen as credible, at a distance.

He was up to his death, the Superior General of the Congregation founded by him.

Writings

  • The boy from the other country. Cassianeum, Donauwörth 1956.
  • The Mystery of the Maple Avenue. Publisher Alsatia 1959, reprint: Lane Publishing, demand for construction in 1993, ISBN 3887780132
  • Traces to the target ( with Günther and Walter Edeltraut Wessler ). 1997, ISBN 3932426622
  • Dear Friends of Boy Scouts of Mary. SJM -Verlag, Meckenheim 2001, ISBN 3932426207
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