highlights are on this journey every day redefined. We have already seen so much beautiful and special, and it was our day today full of new and moving impressions.
After a lunch buffet in the open air overlooking the Drakensberg Mountains, we went to Dundee. In the modest Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Rosary "received us Peter Cullen. He is diocesan administrator, an office he described with his characteristic humor: He does everything to make a bishop - but without the funny hat ". For him it was of course to cheer for his office to serenade the cathedral choir. The common prayer he asked God's blessing for our continued safe journey through South Africa. 
through a landscape that is actually even more grandiose and, it went to Maria Ratschitz, a piece of land like paradise, as described by Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller later in the sermon. Safe in one of the most beautiful places in South Africa make the Mallersdorf sisters, one of the toughest work. They have in the former mission station of the Trappists started exactly ten years to build a hospice, especially for AIDS patients. The Duduza care center includes especially the home based care and to medical care for patients at home. The sisters go to the home country to provide for the sick. This form of volunteers, the so-called volunteers. A focus d 
AIDS work, he is the youth program, the peer to peer AIDS education program. Young people who have dealt intensively with the AIDS problem, AIDS orphans are often put themselves, their peers the knowledge about the disease and try to strengthen the personality and the confidence of the individual. Sister M. Dr. Irmingard valley Meier, who leads this work as a doctor sees a very important task is to teach the girls self-esteem. The role of women was one of the most important starting points for dealing with AIDS in Africa.
Next Tuesday, 1 April anniversary, an event that belongs to the Sisters of the saddest experiences. By the carelessness of a patient burned the hospice. Three people were killed. Sister Mary Anne Thoele wanted to save the patients from the burning house and died himself in the flames. The memory of the woman who sacrificed himself for the next dedicated the cathedral choir in the concert two songs.
The hospice is under construction. At present, therefore, only one AIDS patient to be cared for. The 50-year-old woman was disowned by her family. She ran barefoot to the Easter road from Dundee to Maria Ratschitz. At five in the clock in the morning they went off, came one evening them to the sisters. With her in the house of the Nardini Sisters three men and a girl have found a home. The men were homeless, one of them did not even have a name.
Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller visited in the time of the concert, the cathedral choir in the Church of the patients in their rooms. The fate of every individual is incredible, and yet shaken the history of the 19-year special. The girl has been abused by their parents so badly that it is from the head down completely paralyzed. The bishop prayed the Our Father with her trying to give consolation to believe in a fate that voice-and helpless. Also
Sister Irmingard it goes like this. "It's so hard, every time when I am with her." The work they do every day for the people, for the sisters never become everyday life. Maria Ratschitz is a place of Christian love is lived. "We need to talk about it. In real problems, we talk to the priests. Very important also is the community. We have also among the sisters talk to each other and can laugh in order to deal with it, "says Sister Irmingard. "We simply 
are people who are simple people there and always trust in God." The makes it so special from the Mallersdorf sisters.
The fact that the tasks in Maria Ratschitz only with the inner strength and the irrepressible vitality of the Nardini Sisters to be addressed, we could do.
We experienced a warm hospitality and an evening in which a warm laugh and cry was deeply touched. "The diocese ese 
Say Thank You": The motto of the pastoral visit was already at the concert in the center and found again after dinner-sounding expression. The Nardini Sisters sat in the front row, as the cathedral choir awoke with folk songs, many memories. The sisters joined in the familiar ways and sang in a "must i for the shtetl also "happy with. "Today we are all at least 20, 30 years have become younger," said Sister Superior area Isentraud Rauscher, a native of Erin Wiesenfeld, laughing at you to Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner and his boys. But not only smiling faces rewarded the cathedral choir.
"We have today a public holiday," said the sisters had in the afternoon the rest on the vast site. The workers would get to celebrate the day, the visit to Regensburg guests, free. But they all were there when the cathedral choir sang. And danced with joyous Zululiedern in the hall. Your answer to the concert was almost a " 
African Schuhplattln. The cathedral choir were delighted. The local Nardi's west brought their friends to their Zuluheimat blades. Instantly all were in the hall enjoyed work - and Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller and 
Superior Dr. Wilhelm Gegenfurtner middle. In the great circle African and German Sangesfreude replied the other, any unfamiliarity in common was clapping and singing. And as the cathedral choir sang her first trained South African song, sang the African hosts with not only full of enthusiasm. The boys touched it so much that young women not only furtively wiped away her tears. Regilind Eichenseher sister, born 73 years ago in Oberpfraundorf that had served us a great buffet, danced with so happy that everyone who watched her realized quickly that she has long African rhythm in the blood.
The departure of Mary Ratschitz, this very special place, fell hard for us. Cathedral Choir and the Nardini Sisters met at length in the arms. Everyone went with the feeling to bring something unforgettable. We came to say thanks, and were richly rewarded.
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