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+ R.I.P. - FR. JOSEPH TASCHNER, SVD (1921-2011)
Fr. Joseph Taschner was the firstborn of five children to a family of farmers in Austria. In 1932, he was accepted in the minor seminary of St. Rupert. He then entered the SVD Novitiate in Western Germany. By March 1941, about three hundred seminarians which included Taschner were called to military service and were sent to different fronts all over Europe. He was assigned to the front near Moscow where he nursed wounded soldiers and served as a Russian interpreter until January 1945. He got wounded and was brought to a hospital in Denmark where he remained as a prisoner of war to the English Armed Forces until the end of the war.
He was allowed to take his first religious vows on March 6, 1941, and to renew them every year before two of his fellow soldiers as witnesses. When the war ended, he went back to the seminary in St. Augustin to continue his novitiate and his second year of Philosophy. In June 1946, he finished his novitiate and has taken his final exams in Philosophy. He was then transferred to the big seminary of St. Gabriel in Austria for his study of Theology. On September 25, 1949, he was ordained priest by Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna.
Fr. Taschner asked to be sent to Japan for his first mission assignment but was sent to Rome to continue his studies and finish a doctorate in Theology. When he finished, Superior General Grosse-Kappenberg appointed him as his private secretary as well as archivist of the Curia Generalitia and assistant of the Master of Novices.
In 1961, he was sent to the Philippines. He taught Moral Theology and Patrology at the Christ the King Seminary in Quezon City. in 1964, the seminary was transferred to Tagaytay.
In 1970, he was sent to Vigan, Ilocos Sur. The SVD was then in charge of the seminary for secular priests of the Northern Dioceses, the Immaculate Conception School of Theology (ICST). While in Vigan, he helped build houses for the poor. In 1982, he began helping children of lepers as well. All these he did with help from his friends and benefactors abroad.
In 1988, he began serving as Chaplain of the Sisters of Mary Consolatrix of the Eucharist Monastery in Naguilian, La Union. The congregations’s special task is to pray for the Church Hierarchy, the Holy Father, Bishops, Priests and Religious. The founder, Mother Marie Alexis de Jesus Pacis recognized Fr. Taschner as the co-founder of their congregation.
He remained in the Monastery until October this year when he had to be brought to Manila for treatment. On March 6, 2011, he celebrated 70 years in vows and on November 11, 2011, together with eight other confreres, would have celebrated their common jubilees at the Provincialate House in La Union. He died due to liver complications on November 9, 2011 at the Villa Cristo Rey Retirement House in Quezon City. He will be interred at the private cemetery of the Mary Consolatrix of the Eucharist Monastery in Angin, Naguilian, La Union on November 17, 2011, an honor the Sisters bestow to the co-founder of their congregation.
*This article is based on a short autobiography Fr. Taschner wrote in 2006.
Fr. Taschner asked to be sent to Japan for his first mission assignment but was sent to Rome to continue his studies and finish a doctorate in Theology. When he finished, Superior General Grosse-Kappenberg appointed him as his private secretary as well as archivist of the Curia Generalitia and assistant of the Master of Novices.
In 1961, he was sent to the Philippines. He taught Moral Theology and Patrology at the Christ the King Seminary in Quezon City. in 1964, the seminary was transferred to Tagaytay.
In 1970, he was sent to Vigan, Ilocos Sur. The SVD was then in charge of the seminary for secular priests of the Northern Dioceses, the Immaculate Conception School of Theology (ICST). While in Vigan, he helped build houses for the poor. In 1982, he began helping children of lepers as well. All these he did with help from his friends and benefactors abroad.
In 1988, he began serving as Chaplain of the Sisters of Mary Consolatrix of the Eucharist Monastery in Naguilian, La Union. The congregations’s special task is to pray for the Church Hierarchy, the Holy Father, Bishops, Priests and Religious. The founder, Mother Marie Alexis de Jesus Pacis recognized Fr. Taschner as the co-founder of their congregation.
He remained in the Monastery until October this year when he had to be brought to Manila for treatment. On March 6, 2011, he celebrated 70 years in vows and on November 11, 2011, together with eight other confreres, would have celebrated their common jubilees at the Provincialate House in La Union. He died due to liver complications on November 9, 2011 at the Villa Cristo Rey Retirement House in Quezon City. He will be interred at the private cemetery of the Mary Consolatrix of the Eucharist Monastery in Angin, Naguilian, La Union on November 17, 2011, an honor the Sisters bestow to the co-founder of their congregation.
*This article is based on a short autobiography Fr. Taschner wrote in 2006.