Overview

• Benedikt Seemann, 24, professed perpetual vows and took the religious name Pater Christoph during a solemn Mass.
• He knelt before the abbot, replied "Die Barmherzigkeit Gottes und des Ordens" to "Was begehrst du?", then vowed obedience and signed the profession document.
• The profession binds him until death to the Cistercian community at Neuzelle and to the monastic way of life in that place.
• His path included a temporary stay at 19, admission as a candidate in 2021, and several years under a temporal profession.
• Monastic life at Neuzelle ended with the abbey’s dissolution in 1817 after a last profession in December 1816, then resumed with a reestablished priory in 2018.