100 Years of Women’s Movement in Schoenstatt – Insights 05

How a locked door showed the right way Thanks to “Mother Myrow” In the anniversary year of the Schoenstatt Women’s Movement, I was able to talk to some of my fellow sisters about this topic and publish it here on our website. This exchange of ideas enriched me and made me grateful that I too […]

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A Birthday greeting

When it is someone’s birthday, we like to congratulate them and tell the birthday child what we appreciate in him or her. On October 1, our community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary celebrates its birthday. We will tell you what we appreciate about it!

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Serve our Children

The Nutritional Center „Niño Jesús” celebrates its anniversary. For 30 years it has been taking in all children who, for various reasons, were malnourished in their first few years. The Nutritional Center is a non-profit organization founded on September 8, 1990. It is supported by the national and international staff of the Community of the […]

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Help for the Homeless in Kaliningrad

We have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Kaliningrad for a long time. Since March 2020 we have had a different order in our parish and Caritas center for the support and care for our visitors. For security reasons we unfortunately had to close our ambulance. Only the soup kitchen initially remained in operation. Help […]

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Sister M. Petra Schnürer

Sister M. Petra Schnürer – A Life for Schoenstatt Many people from all parts of the world knew Sister M. Petra Schnürer. She spent her life for the mission of Schoenstatt. Having known our father and founder personally, she brought his life, work, and teaching closer to many people. On September 18, God called our […]

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“Look at Sister M. Emanuele!” (Fr. Joseph Kentenich)

In this year, when we celebrate 100 years of the first women in Schoenstatt, we are invited by our founder to look at the person of Sr. M. Emanuele Seyfried “an excellent case of womanly wisdom“, “exceptionally noble, extraordinary elegant, extraordinary”. This is how Fr. Joseph Kentenich identified her when she was elected General Superior […]

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Schoenstatt’s Contribution to Music in Brazil

We know that music has a calming influence on our lives. It helps us to think and pray and to be interiorly uplifted. What not everyone knows, however, is that Schoenstatt made a significant contribution to music in Brazil. Among the 12 German missionary sisters who were sent to Brazil by the founder, Father Joseph […]

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Dachau concentration camp memorial

Mission at the religious memorial sites in Dachau during the 2020 pandemic I have been a consultant at the concentration camp memorial for several years. I mostly lead school classes. Sometimes I can walk through the memorial with Schoenstatt groups in the footsteps of Father Kentenich. Because of the pandemic, the memorial was completely closed […]

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Once in a lifetime …

International seminar in Schoenstatt To be in Schoenstatt once in a lifetime – that is where every Schoenstatter’s longing goes. Participating once in a lifetime in an international seminar in Schoenstatt and thus spending five months at the place of foundation and grace – this year sixteen Sisters of Mary of the younger generation from […]

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“A nun like out of a picture book”

… This is how the journalist Christoph Hägele describes one of our Sisters of Mary in the newspaper “Fränkischer Tag”. How did he get there? The summer series 2020 of the newspaper wants to let people from different villages and cities in the country have their say and show how they live, what moves them, […]

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