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South Africa - the land of religious joy

The contrast could not be sharper. The Catholic parish of St. Timothy, where we were last night visited is located in one of the many townships outside Cape Town. The Nazareth municipality, in the morning together the Sunday service was held, is one of the attractive district Vredehoek, only about ten minutes drive from Cape Town Center. St. Timothy serves about 3,000 predominantly black congregation, the Church of Nazareth is the center for about 1,000 German-speaking Catholics who live in the Cape region and work. The two parishes also have something in common: their faith and the world famous Table Mountain. Vredehoek is located at the foot of this vast sandstone massif, St. Timothy's Township granted, at least the distant view of the landmark of the city. "Tafelsig" the ghetto living is logical - the German "table view".

This is the German-speaking community Nazareth certainly no bastion of the rich and super rich. "From the doctors to have tile in all sorts of professions are represented," says Deacon Martin Reuter, who was from the diocese of Muenster for six months "on loan" as Pastoralreferent the Cape of Good Hope. Reuter also wanted to Cape Town, therefore, because the German parish priest Stefan Hippler with his AIDS-relief project HOPE has exercised a strong attraction to him. Hippler, who comes from the diocese of Trier, provides a year ago, the headlines when he and the journalist Bartholomew Grill the book "God, AIDS, Africa," published - a pamphlet which has been hotly debated because of their criticism of the church condom ban.

The service on Sunday morning was Stefan Hippler present - the pastor has just several weeks of leave. So it was in deacon Reuter, to thank for the cathedral choir for their "wonderful song": "I have seen bright eyes and mouths, who sang" And then ventilated the Pastoralreferent still a mystery: the faithful, whose northern Germany and Württemberg and Bavarian dialect betrayed their origin was located, Manfred Vorderwülbecke, long-time prominent sports journalist of the Bavarian television. Since his retirement, he spent five months in Cape Town every year, because his daughter lives. What no one knew that the now 68-year-old was from 1950 to 1954 a member of the Regensburg Cathedral Choir.

the service in the Nazareth Church celebrated Provost Dr. Wilhelm Gegenfurtner canon and Peter Hubbard. Wilhelm Gegenfurtner said in his homily once again the main motive of the South Africa trip: n the Regensburg missionaries Inne - to thank for their efforts - especially operating here Mallersdorf sisters. The encounters with the religious and priests have shown that "man is also not complete in ? His element when he loves it when he looks at others and asks is: How can I help "Such acts of charity in mind, would offer the opportunity to" rethink their lives and perhaps realign. World Church Officer Peter Hubbard ended the work of the German community in Cape Town's balance sheet with a "Here we have seen that one can experience as a German-speaking Catholic abroad pastoral care and religious security in the usual church structures. We at home can learn from these communities that connects faith and unites the people. "

How much faith lived all strangeness can forget We enjoyed the evening. At the service at St. Mary's Cathedral was followed by a concert that offered not only this time the cathedral choir. With it was the Simon Estes School Choir. Members come from the townships. You want to make a CD recording, but for no money. Thus, the visitors were invited to a benefit concert. During the official part, changed the songs from the two choirs. But then there was no stopping. The Simon Estes School Choir presented Assignment for the encores. The church choir was transformed into pure musical joy lived. There was dancing and always sung a new song. The cathedral choir stormed into the choir room lined up, on and were entertained by the rhythm of local young people enthusiastic. The spirit of encounter, this South Africa trip gave meaning and purpose, was just music. And after the cathedral choir, the all-connecting South Africa have so perfect song on it, it was smashed at the end so loud that it echoed from beyond the church walls to the streets of Cape Town.

went from the church's in the Paulaner Brauhaus. Here, in fact, the original beer is brewed in Munich. (Quote Vorderwülbecke: "We come twice in the five months ago here, it helps the mirage from draft wheat beer to market..") On the benches moved Bavarian beer and South African love of life closely together meat loaf and potato salad. The young people got along immediately - a toast to South Africa!

PS: In four hours we raised. The first group takes off on the land that gave us in the past two weeks, so many impressions, which has given us insights into the previously unimaginable poverty of many people and has views of magnificent landscapes. I thank you for accompanying us on this journey through the plains of South Africa and I am glad that you liked my lyrics - even if just before midnight after a full day the formulation was sometimes not as smooth. A huge thanks Mivo (Michael Vogl), who has chosen with an angel's patience with me in so many hours of the night and uploaded pictures. And of course the guide, the ever saw in search of Funksigalen with Wlan and vouchers are for the technically correct name. Also thank my colleagues Thomas Berg, who has now delivered the first part of the blog and I will therefore allow an extra hour's sleep. I look forward to seeing in Regensburg. Your Maria Baumann