Farewell to the Seehof: nuns and priests leave the retirement home in Kochel
Created: 09/27/2022, 1:00 p.m
As a gesture of gratitude, Pastor Father Heiner Heim and the Chair of the Parish Council, Sandra Heigl, presented small gift baskets to Sisters Josefa (superintendent), Clementine and Monika (from left).
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There is a cut these days for the Seehof retirement home in Kochel am See.
The three popular nuns and Father Hieronymus go to Munich for reasons of age.
A farewell service was then celebrated.
Kochel am See – The three remaining sisters of the Order of the Holy Family leave their long-term residence and move to the Kreszentia Home in Munich, which belongs to their order.
At the same time as the sisters, the Seehof's clergyman, Jesuit Father Hieronymus, ended his service in Kochel.
The future center of his life will be with his confreres on Blumenstrasse in Munich.
"veterans" of the retirement home
On Sunday, the parish of Kochel said goodbye to the four "veterans" of the retirement home as part of their patronal service in St. Michael's Church and at the subsequent parish festival.
Pastor Father Heiner Heim thanked the three sisters and Father Hieronymus, who celebrated the Mass, for their decades of commitment to the welfare of the elderly and people in need of care in the senior citizens' facility.
Due to their age, it is time for the four to retire to their respective religious communities.
Pastor: "It doesn't have to be angels with wings"
The work of the sisters also brought Heim in connection with the Kochl church patron St. Michael, the archangel, who, according to a vision in the New Testament, overthrew the devil, who appeared in the form of a dragon, from heaven to earth and was considered the weigher of souls.
"Angels are what they say and what they do," is Heim's definition, which he emphasized in reference to a line in a poem: "They don't have to be angels with wings." residents and were there day and night to help them.
Father Hieronymus ends his service as house chaplain.
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Appreciation from the bishop
Bishop Bertram Meier also acknowledged these services in a letter that Heim read aloud.
There are many fruits of the work of the nuns of the Holy Family here in Kochel and elsewhere, it said.
For Kochel, the withdrawal of the last remaining sisters was a turning point.
As a gesture of gratitude and solidarity, Pastor Heim and the Chair of the Parish Council, Sandra Heigl, presented the sisters with small gift baskets.
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Father Hieronymus, who comes from Kazakhstan and has been in Germany since 1995, was also part of the Seehof community, Heim explained.
As a house chaplain, the Father has been providing pastoral care to residents and sisters since 2006, visiting the sick, performing blessings and sometimes holding church services in the parish church.
Celebration after the service in the parish hall
After the church celebration, musically arranged by the Kochler Singkreis, at which four new acolytes were introduced, everyone met in the rectory for a social get-together.
In the past, Sister Monika said in conversation, the sisters of the Holy Family would have managed all the operational processes in the Seehof independently: "Caring, cooking, washing, cleaning, accounting, everything was done by the sisters." But with the lack of This was then no longer possible for the followers.
In 2003, the Caritas Association Augsburg took over the house, meanwhile it is under the wing of the Munich Diakonie and bears the name "Protestant Care Center Rupert Mayer".
For Superior Sister Josefa (88),
Sister Clementine (92) and Sister Monika (62) received some help to support the current team.
"Our farewell from here is also difficult for the residents," said Sister Monika.
"We hope that the Seehof will continue in a Christian spirit and in a family community."
(Rosie Bauer)
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