We make up of what we watch as a prophet that found out that it takes we are december circus and. They want to shape the continents future to be part of it and join hands youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent he doesnt splash forth for africa in charge. In. Those. Full. Close to zero zero zero zero zero zero as is close. To. Their close. Seven thirty in tucson dollface in the Catholic Church zion tundra dominican so sang them morning press. Its just so that. What the old guard you are my god earnestly i seek you mar soul thirsts for you. Theres an outside Garbage Man Arik watch. The ellies lose your cool the Sun Tundra Stands in the thick of dissolute also busy Night Light District the priests here live among party goers. You. Know all its lawyers oh shit. If most of my it must sometimes we get requests from people who want to make a retreat it always makes me chuckle. At this and good gets a number of religious communities off the retreats but i always say were the wrong address for you so you should go to the countryside where there are birds singing and cows and such you wont find that in downtown does the door for. The sticky move over the earth. Go oh. Dusseldorf old town was once advertised as the longest bar in the wild. You wont actually find any especially long bars here. But there are Two Hundred Fifty clubs pumps bars and restaurants which draw millions of visitors. And right at the center. Leaves the eight dominican priests in a monastery. This is this a good location for a monastery. Why not everyone gets drunk here. Not right here on the bar strip. Is this a good location for a monastery. My first instinct is to say no because this is a Policy District with drinking and all. That then i can see how people who really have problems and who want to pass in here and drink too much can find help in a ministry. It gets up to these are three of them i would say its
definitely not the right location. Ive been going out in the old town for years and i also worked here for a long time. And when you see what goes on at night right in front of the monastery people falling over drunk doing Disgusting Things pissing on the walls and stuff thats just not right its one of those which is at its root because its over i myself wouldnt dare knock on their door. Because of how youre dressed out of it that even in normal life im not really a believer acknowledging that there. Were atheists. However the dominican priam feels comfortable with his neighbors. You know well why not jesus went out to the people and the people came to jesus. All the dimensions and so users could call it basically were doing the same as were
living among the people lots of them come to us from all over dusseldorf and its surroundings we are where the people are. And thats wonderful this is i think that whenever you have a dominican do not shy away from their situation the community is strong and content. Votes which is. What do you think about the planned price increases for twenty nineteen or tragic. Dominican priests live out their vocation in the thick of life rather than behind Monastery Wards in one Nine Hundred Seventy Two the order accepted responsibility for the former royal chapel and Jesuit Church zion time dress in the center dos of old town even back then the area around the newly Built Ministry was pretty lively so the monks knew what they were getting into. So do you ever go out yourself. To
the bass voice. And it would be a voice that seemed to know no no i Dont Go Into Bars but i do go to cultural events and i also drink a beer or enjoy a meal with friends playing or not leave us as some. Of them would tough unquiet or evenings sunday or monday i sometimes like to meet with people who work in the old town. And sometimes that leads to a Marriage Ceremony or some counseling or a baptism. I saw him quite well known in some of the bars but not in all Two Hundred Fifty dollars. Its not just the noisy revelers in the narrow streets of the old town that influence this modest dream the monks cant ignore the fact that there are problems where they live off. The. Father france is the eldest member of the community. Hell be eighteen next year. Hes come to terms with the pandemonium outside his window every night. That doesnt mean i agree with the way other people live sometimes it makes my soul eg how they spend their lives and waste themselves ive seen people die in front of the door people i knew. Lots of young people want to have fun sometimes when they get very loud they can be annoying but on the other hand i take joy from young people zest for life. Their doesnt bother you know. It ebbs and flows grows louder and quieter and. I sit still and ask where am i where is my Fountain Head where is my inner strength. And the strength that i receive i try to pass on. Father manfred regularly meets with his friends as he calls the Homeless People in front of them on
a street. Obviously youre on your own today meszaros not here which im sure. He never comments during the week heres what happened to your head no i fell on my face because i was drunk. Did it stitched you two times right there in here. Brain will spell out no news to. You most of the fathers know me here. And i know how long youve been here and i mean the old town. Since one thousand nine hundred two. Now youre amazed. And then theres that woman she talks so loud. That she always takes care of you. Woman kind of too many to make the little chap you want curly hair. You know that one there what woman do you mean is of that one there with
a loud voice. You mean you. Yeah she should work for the fire brigade i know. At any rate she hangs around with several people here shes always giving instructions saying do this do that. And when im sitting at my Desk Upstairs i think just as well youre a month and you dont have a wife you see it was. Some years ago when the city on thorens is trying to drive bankers Homeless People and drug addicts out of the town the monks protested. The police decided not to clear the churches property. The priests had not wanted conflict they just saw it as that fence duty to support the needy. And if i went into the church to find a man eating a god before shooting up. Inside the church yes youre sure its a safe place and this is so i asked myself what should i do the necessity of
millions for me the answer is quite simple i said and thats the end shoot up my friend you need it you dont have it i asked how long i will last and said but ill keep a lookout during that time but then you must leave the church because i cant simply say get lost as well have to find a middle way. You know i mean we have a Good Relationship and hes a highly intelligent man. And so we can discuss philosophy with him. As a we must always differentiate between the true nature of a persons dimension and what hes made of himself from or what hes been made into in the invention so the figure must will do this is the last time. Bond to the monks still have enough time for prayer and contemplation. Or are they simply becoming social workers in a problematic neighborhood. Its just are you perhaps closer to misery and
sentiment or god stackers in the its a book need to know. What is it where there is sin there is god. Was where else should he be. No. Still is i think people have different callings for. Receiving ruefulness. And yes people have a different call it says its a monk who only sits in his cell is fulfilling an important service. That is it provides a spiritual ecosystem in the world its a really weird. We didnt choose it to be like this but we have to decide was concerned one thing you can do here is close your eyes to it all its not possible and thats fine do you miss it much my best a flu shot. Is us to continue sometimes leave them on a stream visit the countryside is going to be i havent done that enough. The dream is always present. I said ok its the trees and the
plants and they are my trees and plants. That. People here arent bothered by the presence of the Gardening Priests on the contrary. Ok my thoughts on the topic i dont have such a Good Relationship with other men fit because hes a bit strict. Man or not but for the man who has helped me a few times even financially and the rest. Yeah that thirty five. Vikernes also help me out. Yeah i have to admit i dont go to mass more than two times in three months. But then i really go to mass. But that was the father vasco sermons are always
a bit long but it does mean. That im an agnostic i have to say that honestly in front of the camera. But that doesnt mean that god doesnt exist right it simply does me good. So thats all for it. Today the wrestler father of all crying is preaching and its true that hes passionate about martial arts the Mass On Sunday is almost always well attended not least because of the sermons the Dominican Order has always focused on good preaching. Were gathered here today in the name of the father the son and of the holy spirit christ the lord be with you. Part of all gang is sixty years old in todays salmon he advocates policies some
would call socialist the man who has been a member of the monastery in dissolute off for twenty five years speaks out against those who are reactionary both inside and outside the church. Must not the system in all its various forms. Continues to view the physical and rentier real world with suspicion especially sexuality which is cast as impure. The idea of the untouchable has its origins there as does social exclusion. So people accuse the church of promoting views that denigrate the physical and the sexual and their right to do so. But in fact the church has never completely rejected or despised the physical. Father of kong as always original and he preaches in a very humane and Down To Earth way. His sermons touch a large number of people including Sacramento Catholics so hes very popular this being itself. Adele and i was under the age time he has new special ideas and he always changes the text how sometimes he talks about mother god if you dont hear that often in the roman Catholic Church i like it. Yeah because. We want to make something beautiful for god not just something demanded of us. And not just something useful either. Not even something that is only healing as for instance when we protest against the discrimination of people on welfare. Are you going to do a shot here. Is that we should do something for god and in his name
that fulfills us spiritually it raises our spiritual lives its. What he thought and i think that he who has created all of the beauty of the world is moved by the beauty of our thoughts and actions. Because he truly became human. Made by man. Ive been coming to Santa Andreas every sunday for many many years because i appreciate the sermon so much they show me a new path and give me new insight its wonderful that i havent found this in other parishes so i really value this he asked. The dominican zinder sold off alarm for their sermons. He signed which. Is a control center. Each week theres a concert and from time to time Book Readings sometimes in other venues in bookshops for instance. When the dominicans returned to germany in the mid Nineteenth Century their aim was to spread catholicism in protestant disowned off. The City On The Rhine had a reputation for intellectual vitality but there was also word of the rhineland Moral Depravity father says deeply committed to maintaining the architectural and historical heritage of the former jesuit charge. And if an adult andrea says we have a large number of liturgical vestments from former times robes that were worn during the mass. We still use some of them on special occasions because they were made to be used in the mass and not simply packed away in
a cupboard shrunk this the wrong bears witness to a time when the royal chapel received generous gifts from the rulers of the duchy of barack. Dozens of. We always try to open our doors and invite people them to say come in. Take a look at these things you can show it is a thing. Or an even if youre not a believer will come see what was achieved here in past ages and whats currently being done and maybe youll find something of use to you will and for life comes across the from the ball. Design can dress is therefore an open charge but not an unattended one as well as an dominic volunteers keep an eye on what goes on in the church. Often visitors want somebody to talk to practical assistance or counseling. In addition to his Parish Duties father volved gang is invested in the social sector hes a Prison Chaplain Offering Counsel and comfort to inmates and decades ago he established the soup kitchen in Dusseldorf Old Town father volved gang is proactive. Whats on the menu. Lentil soup today its really actually. People like it definitely soups are always popular especially on saturdays people here have little for many this is their only regular meal the soup kitchen is entirely funded by donations. I dont think we need the bread knife the father both the martial arts enthusiastic
and avid cyclist is happy to lend a hand. Here. Or he meets more and more people who have had difficult lives. But im going to do that often i was self employed three times and bankrupted by third party debt. Today i have to live on a minimal pension. This helps me to make ends meet. We do you find it difficult to accept charity yes i said to me or for fifteen years ago i wouldnt have considered it. But life is unpredictable. But i do this is. Its not right that in germany a country which claims to practice Social JusticeSoup Kitchens are necessary but it needs Soup Kitchens because pensions are too low and it needs them because
simple people who are ill and cant represent themselves fall through the social safety net it needs them because people have to wait weeks and months to receive Welfare Benefits and because rents are too high. I think its rather scandalous that Soup Kitchens are necessary. But rather beautiful that so many people support our work and ensure that this place runs so well. You. Can wax energetically for Social Justice but some of his colleagues have other priorities. Isnt. A very diverse community. I dont think we would be living together a normal life were so different in character in every way. We also have very divergent views of the church and differing theologies. Nevertheless its a great support not to be alone and to live in
a community im. A man fred is off to meet with a good friend. Thank you leo sends greetings yeah i knew that i could i could act like we got the bread dough with carmel eyes on and simply scrumptious. For. A sky im a baker but even i have to admit its the dominican supervised food for the soul especially with the great sermons preached in sound under various church i always enjoy standing in your congregation and ingesting what you say along. With default that is we have an advantage a rare opportunity which keeps us humble we are eight people off eight different preachers eight distinct profiles normally your church has one priest thats a big selection like these cakes he makes here look around he doesnt just bake
bread you offers a huge selection and customers wait in line. But outside people and queuing for brand the friends disagree about tourists on the party mile. That there are no trouble really woman the contrast between Andreas Church on the one hand and the wild party goers on the other is an enrichment theres a lot going on in disorder and that makes it fun but they feel they have been described as much fun of you come on we cant stay separated we tread on each others toes as if he recently saw me and said good morning praised be jesus christ and then he went on his way through these things so we dont cling to each other but were really terribly close to the still attention on the. Man for father man fred anybody aged soon to be husbands celebrating Stark Nights Cross On Line oh oh oh oh oh oh. Because in your mind and i prefer the company of my own
complicated friends they trip and they say father weve got some great job you want to snort. Son of this is here its up front its transparent it says the. Eight priests eighty unique characters. The Spiritual Community has important to everybody. And it becomes clear during mass when father ileus connects the biblical story and current religious community. People to some of. Their sisters and brothers in the lord today the church celebrates peter and paul. Two men from the first days. Like them we are building gods church. It was with us its made with our differences. With mind and with heart
and also with the fact that we arent perfect we dont always have to get everything right were even allowed to fail what counts in the end is that we give the church at face our human face. Then the church in our time will be better than its reputation amen. Priests in the Party District and it is no accident that they have chosen to be among the people in downtown. Still
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