In conversation with Sr. M. Emmanuela Ghioldi, Mutumba (Burundi) Sr. M. Emmanuela Ghioldi from Switzerland has been living in Burundi, Central Africa, for almost 25 years. On the way to a conversation with her we meet three women. They are interested to hear from the sister from Africa. Sister Emmanuela is a nurse and director […]
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Every year we Sisters in Schoenstatt await the Feast of Corpus Christi with excitement and anticipation. Months before the feast, we reflect on the theme and prepare many things in the background. When the Feast of Corpus Christi is over on Thursday with the processions in many parishes, we will go to work full of […]
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About 200 horses, big and small, just as many riders, young and older, fathers and mothers accompanying their riding children – a colorful picture that will be presented to us again this year at the Gymnicher Ritt. The local priest Joseph Pikos rides on a white horse. His wide cope covers his horse. In one […]
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The Sunday of the Good Shepherd on White Sunday is celebrated in the Church as the World Day of Prayer for Religious Vocations. This year, for the 56th time during these days, from May 12 to 18, 2019, we held a week of prayer for vocations to the priesthood and to the consecrated life. In […]
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Fire of mission – testimony of hope! Holy Week is the most important week for us Catholics in Mexico. Since the year 2000, the Schoenstatt Youth in Mexico has spent this week in the remote areas of our country to bring the Gospel to the parishes. In everyday life, we want to see the face […]
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Some Vietnamese living in Germany had met “Linh thao”, a kind of silent day, in Belgium in 1991. Soon after, the first course took place. Through our contacts with Vietnam, I was able to invite them to the Schoenstatt Center Marienpfalz for the first time in 2011. At first it was only a course with […]
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Jubilee celebration of the Schoenstatt Shrine: Tabor of Freedom. The Blessed Mother gathered 8,000 children in her house. The Schoenstatt Shrine, Tabor of Freedom, in the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, in the State of Minas Gerais, celebrated its 16th anniversary on May 19th and it was a great celebration! Early in the morning, before 8:00 […]
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Shrine festival in Nittenau on 28 April 2019 – a family experience – “Perhaps it will spark!” This was the motto of this year’s shrine festival at the Schoenstatt Center Nittenau. Despite the “April weather,” the Schoenstatt Family of the Diocese of Regensburg arrived at the center late in the morning of April 28th to […]
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Solemn May Opening in Schoenstatt-Au Borken We Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary had invited people to join us in opening the month of May in the Schoenstatt-Au Borken. We were presented with a joyful and profound experience. “It was a joyful evening! The spontaneous impression of a pilgrim can only be confirmed by an equally moved […]
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A child of Mary never perishes! “Under his skilful hands a wooden light frame was formed, which he placed around the image of the Mother Thrice Admirable in the shrine.” … (Chronicle) In 1919, i.e. 100 years ago, Fritz Esser, with great joy in every free minute, made the first light frame around the picture […]
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