”You have made me a better person.” A blessing of the parish priest after Holy Mass on the third Sunday of Lent for our two sisters, Sr. M. Inez Strnad and Sr. M. Rebecca Sampang. They are about to leave West Australia to begin their news task in the East of the country, in our […]
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MATER PERFECTAM HABEBIT CURAM When the first group of Schoenstatt Sisters left Germany for South Africa in 1933, Father Kentenich encouraged them to place their trust in the Mother of God. As a visible reminder they had the letters M.H.C written on their travelling trunks. These letters are the abbreviation for the Latin phrase MATER […]
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Opening of the Jubilee Year of the Pilgrim MTA Apostolate in Fulda, Germany The jubilee team of the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA project opened the jubilee year on March 25, 2022 in Fulda at the tomb of St. Boniface during a service with Bishop Dr. Michael Gerber, Fulda. Already at the beginning of the […]
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Easter announces to us also this year: Christ is risen – He is truly risen! The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary wish you a happy and blessed Easter!
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of Sister M. Christhild “Finally the great day has arrived! Sister M. Christhild Feiereis is celebrating her hundreth birthday! Healthwise she is frail, but it is amazing what all she still can do for herself, above all, with her Rollator. She still maintains some valuable independence with it! When a person knows that at […]
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… There is Joy Among Them Today, April 11, 2022 is the fourty-seventh day since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. We are horrified by what we hear and see in the media and by what we are told by those directly affected by the war. Some of their experiences which we can […]
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A Memorial To our Deceased Sisters of Mary “You will be a glorious crown in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the right hand of your God.” (Is 62:3) Since the beginning of my life as a sister, the shining eyes of my elderly co-sisters and the exciting stories of their […]
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On Saturday 26th February 2022, Holy Mass for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged members of our Schoenstatt Apostolate was celebrated by Father Peter John Pearson in the House Chapel of the Sisters in Constantia, Cape Town. We were privileged to also have a Franciscan priest at the altar and members of the third order of […]
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For 91 New Children‘s-Trees! Everyone who has ever visited Schoenstatt-Au in Borken, Germany knows of the venerable avenue of beautiful birch trees that for fifty years lined the street to the province house of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and which brought the guests of the Schoenstatt Center into the special atmosphere of this […]
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The National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary Since its foundation, our institute and other Schoenstatt Secular Institutes have been members and collaborators of the National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil. Sister Maria Dorotéia Beggiato is seen on this historic photo. Over the course of the years, members of […]
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