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Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!

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JENS NOWOTNY: A Marian Devotee

The family that prays together stays together.
Fr. Patrick Peyton, Roman Catholic Family Rosary Crusade

September is a month of celebration of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of the Lord Jesus Christ. As a Mother of God, we should honor, adore and give praise because Jesus also honors her. She also help us to strengthen our faith by guiding us the path towards God with suffer and comfort. We should love and be thankful to her because she loves us as she loves his Son, Jesus Christ.

A Roman Catholic Jens Nowotny has a strong devotion to Mama Mary. His first-born child was named Mia, a Scandinavian, Dutch and German diminutive of Maria. Since he was a player of Bayer Leverkusen 04 and lived near Cologne, Cologne Cathedral is one of his churches where the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of its patrons.

Our Lady of Fatima

Jen's life is very prophetic especially in the field of football. His last appearance as a footballer in Dinamo Zagreb (blue is the color of its jersey and the color of the Virgin Mary) does not mean an end of his role in football. God has a greater plan for him by changing him another path. However, he will experience many trials including his life as a prerequisite of success of his job, service and mission in football but he has a strong integrity.

Most of the avid devotees of the Our Lady of Fatima die on the first Saturday of the month because it is a day of Our Lady aside from the 13th day of May and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

He played at the FIFA World Cup once in his whole life as a footballer with the competitor of his team: PORTUGAL

A Prayer to Mother for Jens Nowotny

Our Loving Mother,
In his enjoyable comfort and inevitable suffer,
In his glorious success and unexpected failure
in his field of football since the time of his childhood,
help him in guiding and lead him his way
to God through Jesus Christ.

Love and treat him as your child
as you love and treat your Son, Jesus;
Help him to open his humble heart
to get closer to God and have strong faith
by showing a sign that he feels he is loved and not neglected
and his fall and failures are overcome to continue his mission;

Love also his family
as you love your family with St. Joseph and Jesus;
Help them also to live with happy life
and have well-disciplined and educated children;
Enjoy listening their prayer that honors God and you
and send the graces to them as a reward from God.

Recommend him to be the instrument of God. Amen

Hail Mary, full of grace,
our Lord is with thee,
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now, and in
the hour of our death.
Amen.

Gegrüßet seist du, Maria, voll der Gnade,
der Herr ist mit dir.
Du bist gebenedeit unter den Frauen,
und gebenedeit ist die Frucht deines Leibes, Jesus.
Heilige Maria, Mutter Gottes,
bitte für uns Sünder jetzt und in der Stunde
unseres Todes.
Amen

Aba Ginoong Maria, napupuno ka ng grasiya,
Ang Panginoong Diyos ay sumasaiyo.
Bukod kang pinagpala sa babaeng lahat
At pinagpala rin naman ang anak mong si Hesus.
Santa Maria, Ina ng Diyos
Ipanalangin mo kaming makasalanan
Ngayon at kung kami'y mamamatay.
Amen

N O W O T N Y

Nowotny is the German spelling of the common Czech surname Novotny, also widespread in Austria and Germany. Novotny, however, is derived from Slavic novy which means "new"; originally a name for someone who was new to a village.

People with this surname:

Chris Nowotny - (1928 - 1989), a German photographer
Christa Maria Manley (née Nowotny) - mother of Princess Alexandra of Denmark
Eva Nowotny (1944- ) - Austrian professor and ambassador
Ewald Nowotny (1944- ) - Austrian economist and politician
Helga Nowotny - Austrian sociologist
Jens Nowotny (1974- ) - German football (soccer) player
Karl Anton Nowotny (1904–1978), Austrian ethnographer, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
Stanley "Stan Robert Nowotny - (?), an Australian football player
Walter Nowotny (1920-1944), German fighter pilot, Luftwaffe ace during World War II

One of Jen's symbols

Because of his tough authority, here's the image of one of his symbols:

The Meaning of His Name

His name Jens, a Scandinavian origin, is a Danish form of JOHN which is derived from Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "Yahweh is gracious".

This name owes its popularity to two New Testament characters, both highly revered saints. The first was John the Baptist, a Jewish ascetic who baptized at the Jordan Riverand was considered the forerunner of Jesus Christ. The second was the apostle John, who was long-lived apostle and loved by Christ. He also supposedly the author of the fourth Gospel and Revelation.

JENS NOWOTNY: A Devoted Lay Person of the Roman Catholic Church

"I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall never be hungry, and those who believes in me shall never be thirsty."

John 6:35

Jens Nowotny, a Roman Catholic, have been a lay person before his time of his career as a professional footballer. Although he was a captain of Bayer Leverkusen 04, he attends Holy Mass (perhaps at the Cologne Cathedral) together with his family and we know he is the busiest player because of his position on that German club. Indeed, his wife is a very religious person. He encourages his co-players to give time to God like praying, reading the Bible and attending the Holy Mass. Even at Zagreb, Croatia, he never neglects to attenc when he became a part of Dinamo Zagreb. Perhaps, he had seen the young people participating the Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth organized by Taizé Community last 2006 at that place. Most of the participants are from the youth. When it comes to interview, he also uses biblical passage as his reference for sharing a moral lessons.

Even he is retired from his career, he is still serving God. He is still an active lay person by means of sharing his knowledge on football to make the people happy especially from the youth and promote peace and order.

JENS NOWOTNY: God-Fearing Person

Jens had knee injuries many times when he was playing with Bayer Leverkusen 04 and even Dinamo Zagreb. For me, he is one of the luckiest persons in the whole world because God really loves and never leaves him as a child. Many footballers and other sportsmen who have no time and even forget to attend for worship according to their religion because of their spending most of their time with their career feel or notice themselves they haven't received any consequence from and no fear of God and what will happen to themselves if they neglect their duties and responsibilities with their faith especially those who commit the glory of their career and with their championships. Moreover, God gave that kind of consequence for his mistakes in his career as a professional footballer rather than the heaviest punishment or ultimatum be given to the person who doesn't encounter any consequences while they were living in this world.

God has a big plan for him more than from his previous career in the future in the field of the sports of football.

The Artworks of Jens Nowotny

For several years of searching of images of his, I had been thinking how can he have some artistic images. However, I should have a purpose of creating these artworks.

I made these images as a tribute for him as a football player.

My YouTube for Jens

I made this video for him as a dedication when the his farewell game was held last October 7, 2007. Unexpectedly, my video has the most number of viewers in all Nowotny's video in YouTube.



Because of that number of viewers and to add more videos about him as our support, I made another video of this.

How Do I Know Jens Nowotny?

FIFA World Cup 2006...it was held at Germany.

Since I watched the FIFA World Cup 2002 which was held in Japan (together with South Korea) because they reached the final game for championship with Brazil, Germany national football team have become my favorite team though Filipinos are apathetic with this kind of sports. Hence, at that year, I opened the official website of this grandiose event to see the team again and know its player; surmising the profiles and details of theirs. Until I see the image at the left that is something unusual, a strong impact of Nowotny's image strike to me because of his sacrosanct smile. I become curious with his image a its start because of these reasons: something with kingship, something priestly, something prophetic.

Kingship
He looks as a courageous, brave, tough person. I think that he has iron fist and his commandment is a law. He has a sense of strong authority for me. Don't make aggressive, subversive, drastic altercations on him because he has a gun.

Priestly
As a footballer, he uses football to promote peace, order, morality and values of the life of the person. He does something to make the people happy especially the kids by letting himself to play with football. He loves to share all his knowledge in football.

As my first time to see his image, he looks like very religious person. He looks like a priest, or monk or even a saint. He, a Roman Catholic, also looks for me an active lay person of the Church. Furthermore, his wife, Michaela, is a very religious person.

Prophetic
I don't think on him a clairvoyant. However, their is something related with his career. The end of his career is a beginning of his new role in football. Football never drops him and he is not really fed up with that kind of sports. But, for me, he will have a great role become one of the most repsected person in the field of football in the future.

Insomuch that he is very good speaker and very passionate with the kids and youth, he is also good teacher for me. Moreover, for me, he looks like a professor or faculty member of the reputable university.