mda. Paul M. Hannappel, Schoenstatt Institute of the Brothers of Mary, died on the night of April 12th, the day of Father Kentenich’s consecration to Mary, at the age of nine. Following in the footsteps of Joseph Engling in France, he helped guide entire generations of youths and not so young Schoenstatters from all over the entire world. Moreover, his books and compilations of texts have been a roadmap for many people for a more personal and deeper encounter with Joesph Engling and with the spirit of the founding generation.
Heartfelt thanks to Heinrich Brehm, from the press office of the Shoenstatt Movement in Germany, for the dissemination of Rainer M. Gotter’s writing on behalf of the Schoenstatt Institute of Brothers of Mary:
During four decades, Paul M. Hannappel, a member of the Schoenstatt community of Brothers of Mary, was Joseph Engling’s megaphone. No one who wanted to have an experience with Joseph Engling could ever overlook Paul M. Hannappel. The trips with him to Cambrai had a special stamp. As a presenter as well as a tour guide, Hannappel, in his way and manner, brought Joseph Engling alive and, also if possible, he gave him a voice. Many admired him when he cited the life from Engling’s diaries (also called “The Engling Bible”), accompanied by the bell and hammer, as if he had been present in the same place at the moment that Joseph Engling wrote it. For many, it was to interiorly absorb an encounter that reached the heart and transformed one’s own life.
In the Covenant of Love with the Most Holy Virgin, accompanying his comrade, Joseph Engling, he has arrived at the end of the road. He died on the night of Friday, April 12, 2013.
We allow him to speak with the last phrase of his book, “Prototype of Schoenstatt – Volume 1: “ Joseph Engling becomes a reality in the wake of the North star, the call that Pope John Paul II made, on the threshold of the millennium: do not be afraid to be saints of the third millennium.”
Condolences:
Schönstatt-Institut Marienbrüder
Höhrer Straße 80a
56179 Vallendar
GERMANY
Mail: institut-marienbrueder@schoenstatt.net
The funeral will be celebrated on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. in the Adoration Church, Mount Schoenstatt – Vallendar. After the Eucharistic celebration the burial will be at the Vallendar city cemetery.
English translation: Celina M. Garza, San Antonio, USA
