“Your birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaims joy to the whole world!” (Liturgy of the day) How much we long for a better world in which joy prevails rather than the doom and gloom we are experiencing in so many ways. Pope St Paul VI proclaimed “the day of her birth is truly a […]
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Renewal of the Covenant of Love Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was not possible to solemnly renew the covenant of love for two years at the Schoenstatt Shrine in Gikungu, Burundi. Thus, all the greater was the joy on June 18, 2022, when, finally, many people gathered at the Schoenstatt Marian Shrine on […]
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A Pilgrimage to Cambrai and Lisieux, France Finally! Planned long ago—but the feasibility was always questioned due to the coronavirus. Finally it happened in the summer of 2022: a pilgrimage from Oberkirch, Germany (Diocese of Freiburg) to Cambrai and Lisieux, France. Women–single and mothers–of the Schoenstatt Movement were accompanied by our diocesan leader of this […]
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Meeting of altar servers For many years the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary have been involved in vocation ministry (SAV) in the Diocese of Bragança Paulista/SP, to which the city of Atibaia belongs—the city where the headquarters of the second province of Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Brazil is located. Currently, the SAV team is sponsoring […]
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“She will take care in a perfect way, and ultimately we will be able to say: She was victorious!” Fr. Joseph Kentenich, 20.10.1951 The Feast of the Queenship of Mary brings peace and joy to our hearts. We have a Mother in heaven who is queen and intercedes for us with the Holy Triune […]
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THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY INTO HEAVEN 15 August 2022 Through Mary’s Assumption into heaven, solemnly proclaimed as a dogma by Pope Pius XII in 1950, God has given us the greatest SIGN OF HOPE humanity could ever imagine. In Mary we see what it means to be genuinely human; totally at home in God, at home […]
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On Ways Led by God Pedaling hard Again this year our Marienland Conference Center put out an invitation to a bicycle pilgrimage. Twenty-one cyclers pedaled hard from June 29-July 3. Despite a dubious weather forecast in the beginning, heaven showed its best side and gave us ideal weather for bicycling. “I am very much […]
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In June, the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Gikungu, a district of Bujumbura, Burundi, had the joy of welcoming into their home two new candidates. The candidates were accompanied by their parents and entrusted to the Mother Thrice Admirable in the Schoenstatt Shrine Mount Schoenstatt. Yvette Ndayisabais the is oldest child in […]
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A Schoenstatt Sister of Mary Receives the Promotion Award of the German Terminology Day At the next symposium of the German Terminology Day (DTD) in March 2023, Sister Carola Maria Tremmel will be awarded the DTD Promotion Award 2021 for her research in the field of the science of terminology. How it came about […]
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A special mission in an atheistic environment I am Sister M. Konstanze. I live in Wittenberg, Germany, and work there in House Francis. This house belongs to the Augustinus-Werk, a large organization with many facilities for persons with multiple disabilities—including cognitive disabilities. After the fall of communism, the two major Churches in the city […]
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