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KNA REPORT: The Belgian
religious and Author Phil Bosmans has died. By Christoph Arens
(KNA)
Brussels
(kath.net/KNA) his books are vitamins for your heart: light, goodness, love -
this simple basic melody runs through the lyrics of the Flemish religious man
and Author Phil Bosmans, who died on Tuesday in a Belgian hospital at the
age of 89.
About ten million
times, his books - without large marketing strategy - have been sold worldwide
in the 1980s. The classic scored countless editions and about one million
copies sold only in Germany entitled «Do not forget the joy».
The religious born
1922 in Gruitrode in the Belgian province of Limburg, has made courage to life
not only Christians. He turned to people who «have a heart under her jacket» with
titles such as «Love does daily wonders» or «Flowers of happiness you yourself
have to plant» Ruling
have transported messages «in tangible portions», a lecturer once described a
further success of the author. Bosmans was ethnic missionary. A graduate of a school in 1941, he
entered the order of when Grignion de Montfort, and was ordained a priest in
1948. He went to the
workers of Northern France, to people who do anything did with the traditional
language of the Church and with citizenship. From 1950 he participated in the Mission in
Belgium, moved with a mobile chapel on land, gave sermons and meetings, found
time for home visits. 1954 then
the great exhaustion: Bosmans suffered a breakdown, kept the bed for two years.
The doctors wrote him
off. But in 1957 he
was sufficiently recovered that he could go to a task, which would become his
life's work: after a model in the Netherlands, while the took in Antwerp built
the «Federal Government without a name"up - a political movement, which wants to
revive the love for God and neighbour in everyday life through Word and deed.
The took became the master of spell cards,
brought aphorisms and texts, the trademark for a counseling from the spirit of
the Gospel. It began
with radio speeches and «Lever cards» - printed aphorisms that give a boost to
life as a mental lever. The
religious achieved particular notoriety but by the «"Vitamins for your heart":
after ruling over a decade had operated a kind phone mission, a selection of
texts in book form was published.» It was a bestseller. But ruling was not only a master of the word: he founded the
first social stop in Belgium for ex-offenders and the unemployed without
support, then a House for homeless women. In Germany, a German-language «bunch
without a name"came out in 1988 the organisation «Friends create friends».
1994 then a stroke of fate: due to a
stroke, ruling was since then on the right side paralyzed and confined to a
wheelchair. «God has
crossed out my schedule», he commented on his disability that him but not
bitter. He lived in the following years in
a small room at the Montfortaner monastery in the Belgian Kontich. It was full of
clown representations that Bosmans loved so much. The Author had continued writing almost
entirely in the past few years. However, further unpublished texts were
published by him. His works have been translated into 26 languages, he was
awarded numerous prizes and awards. Last week the 89-Jährige was recorded with
a severe bronchitis and fever in the Saint Joseph Hospital in the Belgian
Mortsel. Soon, it became clear that his condition was irreversible.
In the
Tuesday editions of Belgian newspapers, it was reading that would be expected at
any time to leave. «My last word: gratitude» means the movement, with the ruling
itself by the public adopted. All in the spirit of his decades-long
career. SOURCE: http://kath.net/detail.php?id=34804
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