Dean Bayer: Use the time after the pandemic for a new beginning
Created: 01/14/2023, 11:00 am
By: Daniela Oldach
Full house after a two-year break: parish council chairman Max Wittmann (front, left) and dean Michael Bayer (front, right) invited to the New Year's reception in the Oberneuching parish hall.
© Daniela Oldach
Use the time after the pandemic for a new beginning - that's what Dean Michael Bayer advocates.
Oberneuching
- After a two-year Corona break, the focus was on the cozy get-together at the New Year's reception of the Neuching parish.
Dean Michael Bayer and parish council chairman Max Wittmann welcomed the volunteers in the parish hall who work all year round for the benefit of the parish.
"Corona is over, but unfortunately the war in Ukraine is not yet," said Wittmann.
"Ordinary people have to pay for it," he added.
He hopes that despite the suffering, the population will mature in faith.
It is important to keep a positive attitude.
“Fate treats us as it treats plants.
It makes us more mature through short frosts," Wittmann quoted the German writer Jean Paul as saying.
“The Corona frost period really hit us.
It's Easter.
The biggest festival after Christmas.
It has never happened since the resurrection,” Bayer said.
In the opinion of the parish association leader and dean, the time after the pandemic should also be used for a new beginning and changes should also be viewed positively.
"It's a new beginning.
Go to the service without a mask, without a distance.
That's a nice thing," he adds.
In the parish association of St. Anna im Moosrain, a lot has happened in terms of personnel with the new parish vicar Father Dariusz Parzych and the new church musician Angelika Tasler.
Tasler even got a full-time job.
"After the frost, a lot of things thaw," as Bayer put it.
Everyone is now invited and welcome to work in the parish association and to shape it.
Axel Hottinger had to deal with the design of a completely different kind, namely with the financial situation.
He reported from the church administration.
Above all, the enormously increased energy costs occupied him.
The previous gas supplier canceled the contract with the parish association at the end of the year and alternatively offered an eightfold price increase.
"Then we would have paid 24,000 euros instead of 3,000 euros in the future," says Hottinger, who has now switched suppliers.
After Father Darisusz said grace, the guests enjoyed white sausages and Viennese sausages and used the time to chat extensively again.
