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Gripped by the Mystery Franziska Carolina Rehbein SSpS Gripped by the Mystery Arnold Janssen – Man of Prayer Contents “Steyl Streams” – 2 Introduction ........................................................................................... 7 1 Religious Background ..................................................................... 12 1.1 Wellsprings of Rhineland Mysticism ................................... 12 1.2 The Parental Home ............................................................... 16 1.2.1 The Father’s Legacy ............................................................. 16 1.2.2 A Prayerful Mother............................................................... 19 2 Childhood and Youth ...................................................................... 23 2.1 The Seed begins to Grow ..................................................... 23 2.2 Composing his first Prayers.................................................. 26 Published by the 2.3 Academic Studies: Mathematics and Science ...................... 29 Arnold Janssen Spirituality Center (AJSC) 3 Before Ordination ........................................................................... 32 3.1 The Inner Sanctum of his Soul ............................................. 32 Original title: 3.2 Awaiting the Great Day ........................................................ 33 Ergriffen vom Geheimnis - Der Beter Arnold Janssen 4 The Young Priest ............................................................................. 37 Translated by Jacqueline Mulberge SSpS 4.1 Faith and Science .................................................................. 37 4.2 Mystery of Grace .................................................................. 39 4.3 The Major Lines of Arnold's Prayer Life ............................. 41 Published by permission of the SSpS Congregational Leadership 5 The Intentions of the Sacred Heart ................................................. 47 5.1 Apostleship of Prayer ........................................................... 47 5.2 May the Heart of Jesus live in the Hearts of all People....... 50 6 Zeal for Your House Consumes Me................................................ 53 © Steyler Verlag 2004 6.1 Christian Unity...................................................................... 53 6.2 The Universal Mission ......................................................... 55 7 Serving the Word............................................................................. 58 7.1 Steyl: Foundation of the Society of the Divine Word .......... 58 7.2 Sharing in the Humanity of the Word .................................. 59 7.3 Surrender – Tested in the Crucible of Suffering .................. 64 Illustration and Layout: Clemens Jansen SVD 8 Gripped by the Mystery .................................................................. 72 Photo p. 5: Heinz Helf SVD 8.1 The Humanity of the Divine Word ....................................... 72 All other photos: Photo archives Steyl 3 8.2 The Miracle of “God’s Childhood” ...................................... 75 8.3 Church and Eucharist............................................................ 80 9 Blessed Trinity ................................................................................ 85 9.1 Heart of Jesus – Tabernacle of the Trinity ........................... 85 9.2 Trinitarian Life dwelling in Us ............................................. 88 9.3 Living from the Life of the Trinity ....................................... 93 10 Heart of the Trinity – The Holy Spirit ............................................ 97 10.1 Sacred Heart and Holy Spirit................................................ 97 10.2 The Holy Spirit ................................................................... 102 10.3 Surrendered to the Spirit..................................................... 105 10.4 Two Communities of Women – Consecrated to the Spirit. 109 11 In God’s Presence.......................................................................... 115 Conclusion / Looking Ahead ............................................................. 119 Appendix: ........................................................................................... 122 A - Prayers .......................................................................................... 122 B - Poems ........................................................................................... 129 Bibliography ....................................................................................... 138 Arnold Janssen at Prayer Bas-relief by Franz Gutmann in the chapel at Gaesdonk where Arnold Janssen attended High School 4 Introduction On October 5, 2003, Arnold Janssen, founder of the Mission Con- gregations of Steyl, and two other men were canonized and their exem- plary Christian life proclaimed to the world: namely Joseph Freinademetz from South Tyrol, one of his first two missionaries to China and co-founder of the mission in Shantung, and the Italian Daniel Comboni, Vicar Apostolic of Sudan and founder of the “Missionaries of Africa”. What is it about Arnold Janssen, priest-teacher from Germany’s Rhineland, that merits to be held up as an example of successful Chris- tian life for the universal Church? There is nothing extraordinary that would strike one immediately, nothing special that set him apart from the companions of his youth except that he had a great love of prayer and a preference for mathematics and natural sciences. He was just a simple, “ordinary” man. He was born in Goch, in the Frauenstrasse, to unpretentious, good Christian parents. He had his strengths and weak- nesses, natural talents and gifts, but also character traits that were not always easy to deal with. Perhaps we might say he was like us, just the way most of us are. What is the secret that enabled this man to become the founder of a worldwide mission work that today, less than 100 years after his death, numbers more than 10,000 members throughout the world, on all conti- nents and in around seventy countries? What caused him so to transcend himself, his natural limitations, and human talents and weaknesses that Church mission history can no longer overlook him and his work? Wherein lies the secret source of inner strength that gave rise to and nourished his many undertakings? The purpose of this study is not to describe the beginnings and de- velopment of the three Congregations founded by Arnold Janssen. Much has already been written and published on that score. Nor will it treat the significant tasks he undertook almost alongside his life’s work, as it 7 were, and which by themselves would be sufficient to assure him a place he moved as easily and naturally as we move about the created world. in history, e.g. as director of the Apostleship of Prayer for the diocese of Arnold, totally at home in the world of faith, was equally firmly rooted Muenster, zealous promoter of mission awareness in the German church, in reality, in the historical situation of his times and environment. His founder of the Steyl Mission Press, “refounder” and promoter of the keen sense made him aware that, deep in their hearts, many people were modern retreat movement, especially for the laity, founder of the Asso- living far from the mystery of God’s love and goodness. Here we begin ciation of Mission Congregations, and promoter of the study of sciences to discern Arnold’s hidden source: he wished to share with others what especially in the preparation of missionaries. The question is, what he experienced in such an overwhelming manner and what he saw as the moved Arnold Janssen to create all these milestones in the Church, al- meaning and purpose of his life, so that they, too, would be led to expe- most as “extras”, urged on from within, so that the external realization rience the mystery and share in that life. seemed to be a necessary consequence of an inner dynamic? That is the reason why Arnold’s prayers, formulated at different times A first glance at the Steyl founder’s writings, especially the many during his life, all have a basic apostolic-missionary orientation. He prayers he composed, could give the impression that his prayer life was wanted to help people transcend their own horizons and their own per- mainly on the level of oral prayer.1 Does this first impression correspond sonal intentions and resonate with the heart of God, revealed in Jesus of to the facts? What is the spirit, the dynamic, that these prayers reveal? Nazareth. His prayers are the expression of his own experience of the Where do we find Arnold’s secret, the hidden source, from which this divine mystery which revealed itself progressively more through the richness ceaselessly flowed? various stages of his life. Rooted in the circle of his family and the reli- gious movements of his age, he was already formed in early childhood This study endeavours to trace this source and to penetrate the secret in deep faith and great reverence for the mystery of the Trinity. The pro- of St. Arnold Janssen, and in so doing to get in touch with our own inner found impression made on him by the miracle of the incarnation and the mystery and the source of strength that flows within ourselves. If we loving, dynamic action of the Holy Spirit in human life was a heritage manage to overcome the hurdle of the theological formulations and ex- of his father’s deep faith and his mother’s love of prayer. pressions of his times and penetrate to the spirit that speaks through these prayers, we will encounter a man gripped by the ineffable
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