ave chosen you from the world, therefore the world hates you
 
                                                            
 
 
So I greet you with deep love from this place in the name of all faithful  
Catholics of the town of Munster and the Bishopric of Munster, as those chosen  
st and hated by the world, as you go out into undeserved ban
 
                                                            
 
 
May God reward them for all the good they have done for us|  May God not  
punish us and our town for the unjust treatment and banishment which has been  
meeted out to his disciples.  May almighty God bring back our beloved brothers  
                        and sisters.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
My dear diocesans|  Because of the terrible visitations which have come   
upon us through enemy attacks, I meant to be silent in public over other recent   
measures taken by the Gestapo, which call for my public protest.  But if the  
Gestapo takes no consideration for the events which make hundreds of our fellow  
citizens homeless, if just at this time they continue to throw innocent citizens  
into the streets and drive them from the country, then I can no longer hesitate  
       to utter my just protest and earnest warning.        
 
                                                            
 
 
Often in recent times we have had the experience that Gestapo robbed innocent  
and highly respected Germans of their freedom without any sentence, drove them  
out of their homes and interned them somewhere.  Within the last few weeks  
two of my closest advisors, members of the Chapter of our Cathedral, were  
suddenly fetched from their homes, taken away from Munster and banished to   
far away places where they were told to stay permanently.  I have had no answer  
whatsoever to my protests to the Minister of State.  But this much could be  
                        established