A different country but the same family!

Sister M. Rita Baysari from Australia: My name is Sr. M. Rita and I come from Australia. It is there I got to know Schoenstatt and discovered my vocation. In 2014 I moved to Germany to join our community in Schoenstatt in September 2015. After two years of novitiate, a time of introduction to the […]

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50 Years Coronation in the shrine in Mutumba / Burundi

On September 21, 2019, all Schoenstatters in Burundi celebrated the golden anniversary of the coronation of the MTA in the Shrine of Mutumba as Queen of Trust. The October Week, which began on September 19th on Mount Sion in Bujumbura, ended in Mutumba with the great celebration of the coronation of the Queen of Trust.  […]

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“The Schoenstatt House – a House of Mary, a Luminous Point!”

This is how Bishop József-Csaba Pál describes the new small Schoenstatt Center in Timisoara. Since April 2019, the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary have had their first filiation here in Romania. “A beautiful house, I like it”, said one of the participants at the celebration – and: “You can feel the optimistic spirit, it is good!” […]

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„La Nazarena” – 2019

Development Center of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, that helps you get free from your own self, to live for the others and help them.” Joy, compromise, trust, effort, solidarity. These are the values that “La Nazarena” focuses on and lives by. It is a Development Center built by the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in […]

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Harvest Thanksgiving – Traditional and Highly Up-to-date!

Sunday morning. It’s Harvest Thanksgiving Day! I’m going to the Adoration Church. Like my fellow sisters and many pilgrims, I am excited about the harvest altar, which our garden sisters and their team always prepare with much creativity and love. Already as I enter the church, I see from afar the harvest crown of ears […]

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“I come to do your will.” (Heb 10:9)

Reception for five Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa  Sunday, September 2, 2019, was a great feast day in Mutumba, Burundi. Five novices received the dress of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary: Sister M. Clarisse, Sister M. Claudine, Sister M. Vestine, Sister M. Destine and Sister M. Charlène. Already on Saturday their parents […]

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Crowning is like exhaling and inhaling

25 years of crowning the Regina Cor Ecclesiae Covenant Mass of the Roman Schoenstatt Movement at the Cor Ecclesiae Shrine in Rome on September 18, 2019 “Festa bagnata – festa fortunata” “When a festival ends with rain, it brings luck!” In 53 cars, the visitors of the Covenant Mass arrived at the archway of the […]

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EFFECTIVE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

A permanent goal of our Catholic Marian School in Santiago / Chile is to awaken solidarity with the poor. The month of August is the month of solidarity in Chile, following the example of Saint Alberto Hurtado, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to the poorest. This is why groups of our schoolgirls went […]

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A Schoolyard Where the Blessed Mother looks at all the Children

May I introduce myself? I am Sister M. Edith Franzke and have been in the teaching profession since 1999. I have been allowed to work at the St. Walburg primary school in Eichstätt for some time now. Sometimes I think: This is probably the only schoolyard where the Blessed Mother looks directly at all the […]

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Invitation to Silence at the Tabor Shrine

For the third time we have offered a retreat for a wide audience in our Movement House near the Tabor Shrine. When the participants registered, they were integrated into a WhatsApp group and received suggestions and thoughts for the spiritual preparation of this day. The theme was “Prayer and Mission” The retreat took place on […]

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