Pope Benedict XVI, Our Friend on Earth and in Heaven Pope Benedict has passed away. We as Church mourn him. He was a very special and close friend to Schoenstatt. He appreciated our charism and mission for the Church, accompanying us in a fatherly way and feeling very much loved and supported by us. […]
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA in Burundi In 1986, the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and the Schoenstatt Fathers initiated the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA in Burundi. Unfortunately, the visits of the Pilgrim MTA to the people had to be discontinued because of the war in our country. Then in 1997, […]
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First meeting, 26 November 2022 Four dates, four different meetings to discover one’s own Personal Ideal following the guidelines left by our Founding Father, Father Kentenich. There are many of us, known and unknown faces who are coming to the Shrine for the first time. All animated by a single desire that unites us: […]
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Children’s hearts are open and hungry The Pilgrim Center in Schoenstatt, Germany, offers its own events for children and First Communion children. In order to become a personality strong in faith, children need a foundation that allows their faith life to grow and gives them support. Discovering the treasure of faith and thus finding the […]
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The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary wish all the visitors of our site a blessed and merry Christmas 2022! An international virtual choir of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary from 20 countries, sings a six-part Silent Night song in 9 languages. The production consists of about 200 individual recordings. All recorded and produced by the […]
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“Thank you, sisters, for putting Christ back into Christmas!” This was the comment of one young mother who encountered the Schoenstatt Sisters and some members of the Schoenstatt movement at a popular shopping centre in Cape Town. Several years ago, we Sisters began the apostolate “Christ in the mall”. On the last Sunday of Advent, […]
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In our city at the entrance a detailed, classic alpine hut was built to the large shopping center and in front of it is a landscape with two animals. One of the animals is a deer. The deer doesn’t simply stand there. It moves its head to the right and to the left and up […]
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Thanks to the Coronavirus: An Online Course “Covenant of Love” When, during these weeks, I look at the beginning of the online courses “Covenant of Love,” I can only say: Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we are doing this! That’s how I can summarize things after offering this course eight times. For the year 2020, […]
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PERUGINO, PIETRO, ca. 1450-1523, Detail from MADONNA ENTHRONED BETWEEN JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. SEBASTIAN, 1493, Florence, Italy: Galleria Uffizzi “ Qué soï era immaculado councepcioũ” – “I am the Immaculate Conception” Mary’s predilection as the Immaculata points to the sublime degree of her holiness. Her spiritual wealth constitutes that dimension of her being, which is […]
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“ Qué soï era immaculado councepcioũ” – “I am the Immaculate Conception” In 1858 at the Massabielle rock near Lourdes, France, Our Lady identified herself to Bernadette in the local dialect as the Immaculate Conception, thereby confirming the dogma promulgated some years earlier on December 8, 1854. This self-revelation belongs to the core of her […]
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