GERMANY, fma. In the first minutes of 20 December, Fr Tilmann Beller was called to his eternal home in Munich. In the middle of November a serious and rapidly progressing illness was diagnosed. Since then people all round the world have been united in praying for him. Since this morning a candle has been burning for him in the Original Shrine, as well as at the Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Fr Beller has left his mark on Schoenstatt in Hungary, Austria and Germany. In countless publications, training courses and working models he passed on Fr Kentenich’s teaching and practice of working with spiritual currents, respecting life processes as the basis for living out of 18 October 1914, which is in itself a life process, the pedagogy of spiritual currents, the importance of a person’s own sensitivity for values, on the one hand, and Fr Kentenich’s pedagogy and principles of communication, on the other. His funeral will take place at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday in the Adoration Church on Mount Schoenstatt. His funeral will be broadcast live on schoenstatt-tv.de.
Someone who visited Fr Beller in hospital in November reports, “During my visit he talked a great deal about the divine light in which he was privileged to live. He also said something that could console us all – now, to cope with his death, but also as hope for our own lives and deaths.
“It is interesting.
Although there is the experience of guilt and weakness,
it isn’t important.
What is important
is an incredible experience of being accepted.”
In the summer this year Fr Tilmann Beller celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his priestly ordination. Surrounded by his co-workers, relatives and friends the celebration also became a “thanksgiving” for this great man who was so close to Fr Kentenich and had such an influence, one that will last.
This is the link to the report:
Fifty Years of Priesthood in the Service of Fr Kentenich: Fr Tilmann Beller
The team of schoenstatt.org owes a special debt of gratitude to Fr Beller, because he had the courage and foresight to create the beginnings of what is today schoenstatt.org already at the end of the 1990s.
Our continued endeavours are our thanks to him.
Translation: Mary Cole, Manchester, England
