Drummer literally drums up money for Burundi In a 20-hour recording session in a recording studio near Munich, Bernhard Boll created the anchor for the project of his heart: A drum solo, with which he raises money – for a new clinic in the Mutumba mission station (Burundi/Africa). The YouTube video is six and a […]
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… and often a Sword in the Heart Every gift includes a task, a challenge and often a “sword” in the heart. We also perceive this reality in the life of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She was chosen to be Mother of God and Mother of the expected Messiah. What a gift of God’s […]
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Even before I formed you in the womb, I’ve chosen you, even before you came out of the womb, I have sanctified you:” (Jer 1.5) There is an old and beautiful custom of bringing children to the church to consecrate them to our Lord and the Blessed Mother. It is a custom that is unfortunately […]
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January 31, 2020 Thanks for the prayers and all support On behalf of the Schoenstatt Family in Australia, I would like to thank you all for your prayers and participation in this natural disaster which has been a cause for worry and sometimes frighteningly close to us for months now. recent photos: the grey behind […]
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Sister M. Lisette Seitzer was born on July 30, 1950 in Waldstetten / Diöz. Rottb.-Stuttgart. In May 1970 she entered the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in South Africa. After training as a teacher and working in this profession for two years, then studying psycho-pedagogy, anthropology and theology in French at a university […]
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“The key to Education is Love and Reverence J.K.” On Friday, 6th December, 2019, the “Villa Maria Educare” celebrated 50 years of its present existence! The Schoenstatt Sisters had been educating children in Cape Town many years before building the current Educare premises. “Doctors Rooms On Kloof “now occupy the space that had previously been […]
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At the “Shrine of Joy” in Herxheim they saw it appear. But the story began much earlier. Their very special place When the great wave of refugees came to Germany, the Blessed Mother led the first Iranians to us. Two of them wanted to become Catholic and were baptized in the parish church at the […]
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There are paths that are dark. We don’t know exactly where they lead. There are questions waiting to be answered. There are situations in which no one can advise me – it depends on me, on my trust in God, on my courage to take the step I have recognized as the right one. But […]
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“Survival Strategies” On October 12, 2019, I held my first theme tour on this subject at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site. I suggested this theme a year ago because I found it interesting and hoped to mention our founder, Father Joseph Kentenich. Again and again in the preparation, I discover impressive examples of prisoners. […]
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Weekend for girls (8 – 13 years) in Heiligenstadt – Little Paradise I am Sr. M. Jacky-Ann Burmeister from South Africa, and I would like to let you participate a little bit in a weekend which I have held together with four very awesome leaders ages 15 to17 in the “Little Paradise”. They had asked […]
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