“I can’t tell you how happy it is to see you again,” said pastor Johann Haslinger, who now lives in the St. Klara home of the Franciscan nuns in Vöcklabruck, on Sunday, welcoming more than 80 altar boys and girls over the past 60 years . They had come to Kefermarkt from near and far on his initiative. He had baptized many, given them First Communion or greeted them in front of the altar.
Hannes Mitschan recalled many highlights of the altar boy years since 1962. Some of them probably knelt in thought, praying the “Confiteor Deo omnipotenti…” or the “Mea culpa…” (often rattling around almost incomprehensibly) on the altar steps. Haslinger’s wise view that “Rome is far away!” Thanks to.
Parish Council Chairwoman Sonja Steinmetz presented a “Bschoadbinkerl” with products from his former parish with the deeper thought of a decade-long hike together. After the mass, which ended with the seldom so heartily sung “Great God, we praise you”, there was an agape in the new parish center, where Pastor Haslinger thanked us for the warm welcome on this hot morning with free drinks.
Source: Nachrichten
