“You are a mission!” With this word, Pope Francis calls us, in the month of world mission, to reawaken our enthusiasm for the good news of Christianity and to spread it courageously in today’s world. Father Kentenich, the founder of the international Schoenstatt Movement, expressed it this way: “Mission is the idealism of Christianity! As […]
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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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∼ October 18 ∼ “I have come to cast fire upon the earth. How happy I would be if it were already burning”.[1] These words of Jesus illuminate the event of October 18, 1914 in the small chapel in Schoenstatt. The Holy Spirit lit the fire of a charism in the heart of Father Joseph Kentenich from […]
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„FIRE” „Your hearts have caught fire.” „You have made my plan your own. With confidence I place it and its fulfillment into your hands …”
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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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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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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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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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„Climb higher”!“ “I want to climb higher with you, up to the stars, up into heaven! The Blessed Mother has given the family to me anew … so that I can form and shape it and then pass on into eternity, from where I will continue to take care of my life’s work in a […]
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September 15, 1968: Father Kentenich goes into eternal life! What happened on September 15, 1968, at seven o’clock in the morning in the Adoration Church on Mount Schoenstatt? The answer is as complex as the attachment to Father Joseph Kentenich and the understanding of his charism. We Sisters of Mary like to say: On this […]
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