JANSSEN

SPIRITUALITY

Looking back to how the mission started

Don Stepherson V. Calda, Ph.D.

Divine Word College of Calapan

CHAMPION OF EVANGELIZATION
Proclaiming the Good News

is the first and main

expression of love for ones
neighbor. A. Janssen
Societas Verbi Divini (SVD)
He was an ardent animator

of the churchs mission in

Central Europe. He gave
proof of his courage while
opening a mission house in
Steyl when the Church went
through difficult time due to
the so-called Kulturkampf.
Pope John Paul II

BORN IN GOCH 05 November

1837

Parental house in Goch

HIS FATHER GERHARD JANSSEN

Arnolds father, Gerhard Janssen, was a small business

man. He transported and sold goods from Goch across
the border to the Dutch city of Nijmegen. Additionally, he
had small parcels of land and rented to some farmers.

ANNA KATHARINA JANSSEN

His Mother was Anna

Katharina Wellesen,
born in Heust-Weeze.
She gave birth to 11
children. Arnold
Janssen was the
second eldest.
She was a praying

mother in the fullest

sense of the word.
Arnold

DECISIVE ROLE
Bishop Raimondi: No Mission

Bishop Raimondi, Apostolic Vicar

of Hongkong

Seminary in Germany? Found

one yourself?
Arnold felt he was not the right
person to start for lack of
experience and no vocation for
it. He can only help the project.
Others had doubts due to his
obstinacy and being
impractical.
Bishop Raimondi saw in Arnold
that he can do it because of his
faith, he is a man of prayer and
has passion for the mission.
To Arnold in his last visit in
Kempen: You trust in God
more than in yourself.

TROUBLED WATERS IN GERMANY

The politics of Otto Von Bismarck,

the Kulturkampf a political

persecution of the Catholic
church.
Expulsion of religious, closing of
churches, schools, imprisonment
of Clergy, Religious and Bishops
Prohibition of opening any
religious institutions.
Nobody and nothing is in his favor
to start a mission house.
We live in times when all is
crumbling down and threatening
to collapse Bishop Paul
Melchers of Cologne, 1874.

CROSSING THE BORDER - STEYL

Arnold Janssen: We

are living when much

is being destroyed, but
that is all the more
reason to build
something new.
Bishop of Roermond

Joseph Paredis: Imagine,

he wants to build a
mission house and has
nothing. He is either a
fool or a saint. Dec 1874.

OLD BARN ALONG THE MAAS RIVER

June 16, 1875 - the purchase of the

house from Mr. Nicholas Ronck.

It was decided to make this

day the FOUNDATION DAY.

We resolved that each one of
us would consecrate himself
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the objectives of the
mission house.
The purpose of the house will be

to prepare and send forth

missionaries to mission countries,
for the spread of Gods Kingdom on
earth
It should also serve the Catholics
of Austria and the Netherlands
without excluding members of
other nations.

The signing of the purchase

SEPT. 8, 1875 - INAUGURATION DAY

The simplicity of this

beginning should not

discourage us. We know
that our present resources
we cannot accomplish our
task, but we hope that the
dear God will provide
everything we need. And he
may do with us what he
wills.
If the seminary succeeds,
we will thank the grace of
God. If nothing comes of it,
we will humbly strike our
breast and confess that we
were not worthy of the
grace
Arnold Janssen

In the Steyl Village Chapel

FIRST BUILDING IN 1876-77

The new building had rooms for the growing community. There was a
chapel which can accommodate 120 persons. On the main altar was the
statue to the Sacred Heart. This chapel was used till 1883.

MISSION SCHOOL IN STEYL

Preparing missionaries

in the spirit of
generosity, devotion and
readiness for sacrifice.
In 1879 60 students. In
1881 over 100 students.
In 1886 200 students.
.

FIRST TWO MISSIONARIES TO CHINA

March 2, 1879

JOHANN BAPTIST ANZER

JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ

FOUNDATIONS IN EUROPE

1889 - St. Gabriel - Austria

1892 Holy Cross - Germany

1898 Sankt Wendel - Germany

1904 St. Rupert - Austria

WOMEN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD

The Sisters were trained

for different apostolates

like as teachers, midwives,
nurses
Mission sending sermon:
They dedicate their lives
to the service on the
missions, to take up an
apostolate among
womento take up the
care and education of
children and to be good
mothers to themto
support the work of the
missionaries.
Arnold Janssen, 1895

LIFE OF PRAYER FOR THE MISSION

Notre Dame Convent -1896-1904

Sacred Heart Convent 1904-1914

Holy Spirit Convent from 1914

FROM STEYL TO THE WORLD

SVD

SSPS

1879 Hongkong, 1882 - China

1895 Argentina

1888 - Rome, Italy

1897 Togo (1989)

1889 Argentina

1899 Papua New Guinea

1889 Austria
1892 Germany, Togo-[1917, 1974]

1901 USA

1893 Ecuador [1899,1962]

1902 Brasil

1895 Brazil

1905 China

1895 USA

1908 - Japan

1896 Papua New Guinea

1900 Chile
1907 Japan
1908 - Philippines

SVD AND SSPS MISSION IN THE

TIME OF ARNOLD JANSSEN

CHARISM ALIVE- ARNOLDUS FAMILY

AMERICAS

ASIA

Total 1,532

Total 7,602

AFRICA

OCEANIA

SVD 4080
SSPS 1344
SSPSAP-178

SVD - 739
SSPS - 692
SSPSAP 107

SVD - 1236
SSPS - 31
SSPSAP 8

Total - 1275

EUROPE

SVD - 1923
SSPS 1372
SSPSAP-114

Total 3,409

SVD - 51
SSPS 38
SSPSAP-0

Total - 89

CALLED
TO SHARE
IN THE
MISSION
OF THE
TRIUNE
GOD

The Mission
response of
St. Arnold
to the Realities
of His Time

SVD Religious Vows:

1.Poverty
2.Obedience
3.Chastity

CANONIZED IN 05 OCT 2003

Missionaries are
ambassadors of
divine love. They
are to reveal the
great deeds of God
and establish the
kingdom of divine
love.
St.Arnold Janssen

His motto sums

it up:

May the Holy Triune God Live

in Our Hearts and in the

Next Meeting:
SVD Mission and Challenges
today
October 24, 2015