A group of 15 young people from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and the United States are participating in the Schoenstatt Leadership School in Germany. They visited our Motherhouse on Mount Schoenstatt on July 12th, accompanied by Father José Luis Zabala, the leader of this time of training. Prayer together in the Motherhouse […]
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„Totally” „I now place myself entirely at your disposal with all that I am and have: my knowledge and ignorance, my ability and inability, but above all, my heart.”
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The joy of being a Sister of Mary A fire burns in the heart of every person who is called to leave everything out of love for Christ and for service to or in the Church. This burning enthusiasm gives the strength to overcome all difficulties with confidence and to give one’s life entirely to […]
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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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“SUN” “Sun-people, Sun-children, that is: Christians who constantly circle around the sun of Divine Love.” We want to be people “who themselves become little suns, … from whom a constant, uniquely joyful and bright atmosphere emanates, and in whose wake people feel at ease.”
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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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