The Easter Trail:
An Easter Experience!

A Project with Potential for the Future Easter—that’s what we Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary experienced in a special way last year.  And with us, many others: Young and old, those for whom Easter means a lot, others who rediscovered the meaning of this feast day. Many also came across our Easter trail by chance. Preparations […]

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Pentecost during Lent

Retreat in Everyday Life for Young Women in Budapest, Hungary   For one week, from February 18-24, 2024 we four sisters from Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary, and two sponsors organized a week of retreat in everyday life for young women aged 16 and over. “What was very good is that I experienced an unusually caring […]

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A Motherly Heart for the House,
A “Mother for the World”

“The most important thing is to always be where God wants us to be.” G. Bernanos On Saturday, January 27, 2024, the Triune God took our dear Sister Marie-Gudrun Glückert into His eternal home. On January 13, 2024, Sister Marie-Gudrun felt so ill that she had to be brought to the hospital in Timisoara, Romania. It was […]

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RAISED

MARCH The Easter person is a person of inner joy. It is joy that God loves us. J.K.   raised A young father said the following about his daughter: “I love her so dearly. Of course I know that it would not be good, but I would love to protect her from all the dangers […]

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Meeting of the Schoenstatt Secular Institutes

From March 23-25, 2024, twenty-eight members of the six Secular Institutes of Schoenstatt met for a conference in Schoenstatt, Germany at Mt. Moriah. Theme: The Evangelical Council of Poverty At this meeting, which has been held annually since 2018, the participants delve deeper into their common charism and profile as Schoenstatt’s core communities. This year’s […]

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Vocation Pastoral Ad Intra

     An outward pastoral for vocations – but also one ad intra.       We are grateful to experience that in our sisters’ family there is not only an outward pastoral for vocations, but also one ad intra. We 21 sisters from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Romania, South Africa, and the USA have been […]

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A MISSIONARY EXPERIENCE

Once a year, the students of the Newman Center at Texas A & M – Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) travel to McAllen, TX, to serve at the Catholic Charities Migrant Respite Center. Since I am currently studying at TAMU-CC, I was able to participate in this mission trip last September and would like to share my […]

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Experience Dignity
– Part 2 –

Interview with Sister Rita-Maria Alessi     – Part 2 –     Sister Rita-Maria Alessi has been part of the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary for 54 years. For 45 years she has lived and worked in the St. Josef residential home in Weesen, a home for adult women with physical or mental disabilities […]

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Would Experience
– Part 1 –

Interview with Sister Rita-Maria Alessi     – Part 1 –   Sister Rita-Maria Alessi has been part of the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary for 54 years. For 45 years she has lived and worked in the St. Josef residential home in Weesen, a home for adult women with physical or mental disabilities that […]

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A Lesson on the Sacred Meaning of One Human Life

The Sacred Meaning of One Human Life Dr. Sr. M. Elena Lugo member of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, returned home to the Heavenly Father at age 85, after four weeks of a painful but rapid deterioration of her body due to an already metastasized cancer. Fully conscious and clearly convinced that life is the goal […]

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