Mourning for popular pastor: Pastor Johann Hagl († 83) died
Created: 07/01/2022 08:13
By: Andreas Sachsen
Pastor Johann Hagl also supported Brigitte Scholle's “Luzia Sonnenkinder” association.
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Pastor Johann Hagl had his heart in the right place.
He was socially committed and known as a pastor beyond Oberschleißheim.
Now he is dead.
Oberschleißheim
– He worked for refugees, supported an orphanage in South America and collected money for a seriously ill boy with the “Luzia Sonnenkinder” association.
Pastor Johann Hagl is known far beyond Oberschleißheim as a dedicated pastor.
After a short, serious illness, he passed away at the age of 83.
Everyone who knew him will remember Hagl as a true philanthropist.
Whether old or young;
to help a troubled soul, the path was never too long for Pastor Hagl.
His care was especially for the weak, the oppressed.
Socially disadvantaged among his followers were no less valuable to him than good churchgoers.
Shutting out people who had gone astray from the community wasn't his thing.
"In emergency situations he showed a big heart," remembers Pastor Ulrich Kampe.
Hagl earned respect through his involvement in the Catholic Men's Welfare Association, with his work for homeless and alcoholic men who often lived alone.
"They were all family to me"
At the celebration of Hagl's 50th anniversary as a priest six years ago, Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Bischof described him as one who does not peddle the faith.
Hagl was someone who tackled things, who, as Pastor Kampe knows, had his heart in the right place.
Friends, acquaintances, but also his critics will remember Hagl as a retired pastor.
Since his ordination in June 1966 he led five congregations in and around Munich and in Markt Schwaben.
"They were all family to me," he once said.
As an advocate of ecumenism, he not only made friends.
When the auxiliary bishop once offered him a change of pastorate, he declined: "Now that I have loved all my critics, should I go?"
Officially retired in 2005, he returned to Schleissheim, where he read his first mass in Maria Patrona Bavariae.
Pastor Kampe valued him as a pastor who did not close his heart to anyone.
What is remarkable is what Pastor Hagl has handed down to posterity as the quintessence of his work: “It is not easy to be a pastor as a person.
It is difficult to remain human as a pastor.”
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