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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… 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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“To be even more one heart and one soul…”, this wish of Father Kentenich stands above the celebration of the renewal of the coronation, at which around 100 members of the secular institutes of the Ladies of Schoenstatt and the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary as well as the Schoenstatt Women’s Federation took part on August […]
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A report by Amalia Tornini, Member of the Board of Directors “Casa de María”, El Peñon, Chile Those who thought that this terrible pandemic was about to peak and that the contagion was decreasing were wrong. There are still strict traveling restrictions for most of the metropolitan areas in our city of Santiago and other […]
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Who does what??? “Who will set up bed linen?” – “I will pack games.” – “Should I ask the kitchen to prepare food for us?” We four sisters were occupied with such questions for a few days. They increased the anticipation of our vacation together. We are allowed to spend it in a small house […]
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“… we won’t let that be taken from us!” Corona is making a heavy line through the calendar At the beginning of the year, my schedule for 2020 looked promising: group meetings, women’s congresses, jubilee days, schooling days, vacation weeks – all the events to which I was supposed to accompany various sisters in order […]
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Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary during the Corona Pandemic We are now in the third part of our documentary about the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in times of the Corona Pandemic. Today we would like to show you how we have tried to help people in need. In a very concrete way, this was done in […]
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In the Anniversary Year of the Women’s Movement The work in the pilgrim center in Schoenstatt is always marked by surprises. The visit of the Gerlach family and their relatives in recent weeks was a special experience. This family is related to Marie Christmann, the late sister M. Magdalena, and her cousin Gertraud von Bullion. […]
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“I must embed my littleness into the greatness of God. My littleness, my powerlessness will be taken up by the all-powerful God. My weaknesses will be taken up, supplemented by the greatness and the power of the almighty, the eternal God.” Fr. Joseph Kentenich October Week 1967 IMPULSE “Littleness, powerlessness, weakness” – not exactly our […]
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A human heart beats for us in heaven! What kind of heart is that? It is the heart of the Blessed Mother, who ascended to heaven with body and soul. It is a genuinely human heart that, from heaven, is motherly for the people who still make pilgrimages on this earth. The feast of the […]
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