A Catholic worship on Wednesday, 26. December 2018 from the Seminary Church in Hildesheim live in the DLF from 10.05 PM

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Celebrant and preacher Bishop Heiner Wilmer SCJ.

The 57jährige is only in the last few months, the Bishop of Hildesheim. He belongs to the order of the sacred heart of Jesus-priests.

The solemn service will be music from Cornelia Schott, with the harp a special accent. The organ plays Matthias Klimanek. The ecclesiastical management of the radio officer Andreas Braun.

The Second day of Christmas is also the feast day of Saint Stephen, the first Martyr of the Church. Quite deliberately, the Church looks in the midst of the Christmas joy on the death of the he was advanced. The wood of the manger points to the wood of the cross, these believers Belief is a part of Christmas.

Hildesheim is a city in lower Saxony, about 30 km to the Southeast of the state capital Hannover. Hildesheim has around 100,000 inhabitants.

The two churches, the Cathedral of St. Mary of the assumption and St. Michaelis are among the most important buildings in the pre-Romanic period and is a UNESCO world heritage site.

The former Seminary in Hildesheim, Germany, is today a meeting house, which is located in a historic monastery grounds in the southern town of Hildesheim. From the early 15th century. Century to the early 19th century. Century, there were monastic life. In 1834, the Seminary was founded for the offspring of the newly established diocese of Hildesheim.

From the outside, the building shows up today, forms of the high Baroque. In three semi-circular niches with a Statue of Mary above the Portal as the Immaculata, to the pages of the Holy Franz of Assisi and Anthony of Padua.

The worship room is a hall Church with retracted rectangular choir. In the 2000s, a restoration was required, it was decided to design the room for the celebration, with groups and to make liturgical emphases of the Second Vatican Council experienced.

The Seminary Church is now a path-space along an axis, and on the Holy water font, Ambo and Altar on the same level as the stations of an event. Instead of fixed benches, there are a limited number of moving seats. The dark floor is a stark contrast to the white wall. Except for the cross, the Easter candlestick, and an old Pietà, and a gate-like design of the East wall of the room contains no pictures, and symbols. Only the stained-glass window set in the case of incidence of the light color accents.

Because the space is so designed in a restrained, almost austere, the signs and Gestures of the Liturgy, and the presence of the assembled people, a particularly strong experience.