Bernardin Schellenberger (born 11 February 1944) is a German Catholic theologian, priest and former Trappist. He has worked as a writer and translator, focused on spiritual topics and the monastic tradition.
Schellenberger was ordained as a priest in 1972. In 1975, he became prior of Mariawald.[1] He published books and translated from 1978, first translating Henri Nouwen's The Genesee Diary – Report from a Trappist Monastery.[3] He translated more works by Nouwen, Richard Rohr and many other American, French and Irish authors, with topics such as Zen meditation, Jewish mysticism, Church history, dealing with illness, improving health, family affairs, enneagram and social criticism.[3]
In 1981, Schellenberger and two other friars left Mariawald and tried a community in an empty parish house in Donzdorf, but failed.[1] He lived in the Abbey of the Genesee in Genesee County, New York from 1982,[3] returning to Donzdorf in 1983, where he lived as a freelance writer. Beginning in 1988, he has lived and worked at times in Togo, helping Africans.[1][3][4] In 1991, he married a woman with two children, for whom he cared. They separated in 1998. He has lived in Bad Tölz from 2006.[1]
Ich bin es, der mit dir redet. Die Botschaft des Johannesevangeliums (in German). Freiburg, Br: Herder. 2008. ISBN978-3-451-32138-2. OCLC315869013.
So lebten unsere Vorfahren. Die Geschichte von Winzingen und Umgebung (in German). Vol. II. Weissenhorn: Konrad. 2010. pp. 736–1900. ISBN978-3-87437-549-8. OCLC688609194.
Schellenberger, Bernardin (2014). Im Glanz des göttlichen Lichts. Orthodoxe Mystik: Geheimnis und Herausforderung (in German). München. ISBN978-3-532-62465-4. OCLC879874176.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Benedikt von Nursia : Der Werdegang eines spirituellen Meisters - Inspiration für heute (in German). Würzburg: Echter. 2015. ISBN978-3-429-03812-0. OCLC904546378.
with Max Taucher: Krypten, Ursprung der Hoffnung. Echter, Würzburg 1985
with Ines Baumgarth: Treppen, Stufen des Lebens. Echter, Würzburg 1989
with Michael Albus [de]: Glaubens A und O. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1995
with Albus: Der Zauber des Alltäglichen. Kreuz, Stuttgart 2001
with Albus: Worte aus der Wüste. Kreuz, Stuttgart 2003
with Jürgen Hoeren [de] (eds.): Feiertage einmal anders betrachtet. Gespräche mit Prof. K.-J. Kuschel über den Sinn von Weihnachten, Ostern und Pfingsten. Echter, Würzburg 2004
with Wolfgang Buchmüller [de]: Ein Lied, das froh im Herzen jubelt. Texte der spirituellen Erfahrung der frühen Zisterzienser. Be&Be, Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald 2010
Hymn
Schellenberger wrote the text of the hymn "Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet" (Blessed who is met by Christ on the way), which was included in the 2013 German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, coupled with a 17th-century melody from Paris.[6]