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Cardinal Reinhard Marx and long-time companions of his work as a pastor gave the final escort to the emeritus auxiliary bishop Franz Dietl at the requiem in St. Mary's Cathedral.
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Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
Franz Dietl was buried in the cloister cemetery of the cathedral.
Reinhard Cardinal Marx celebrated the requiem for the Moosburg native.
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– According to Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, being a pilgrim was strongly embedded in Auxiliary Bishop Franz Dietl, who retired in 2010.
He had a strong longing for a “home” and the urge to always start something new in order to follow his calling.
“Now Franz Dietl’s pilgrimage is over,” said Marx, who celebrated the requiem in St. Mary’s Cathedral on Tuesday for the long-time episcopal vicar of the archdiocese’s southern pastoral care region.
“Always with all your heart, that was his motto,” Marx remembered, and also that Dietl was opinionated and edgy, but always turned towards people.
“Yes, as he got older his sermons became long, but that’s just how it is when your heart is so full.
He just wanted to share it," said Marx, who concluded Dietl's farewell with this: "Dear Franz, Christ is waiting for you now, you were hoping for him, now he is standing at the door.
The earthly tent is torn down and a home is now being opened somewhere else.
At the moment of encounter with God, our failures, our limitations, the imperfections are made perfect so that they finally find a place, at home with him.”
Ludwig Schick, Archbishop Emeritus of Bamberg, concelebrated the requiem.
Dietl was buried in the Kreuzgarten on the Domberg.