It was again time for the Advent retreats. In the style of a well-known Advent hymn they were prepared under the theme: “Take courage and have faith!” Each year in Advent we at the Dilexit-ecclesiam Shrine in Aulendorf, Germany offer retreats to the women and mothers of the Schoenstatt Movement of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. […]
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Inspiring by her life – with us on the way – interceding for us with God Under this guiding idea, a Homepage for Emilie Engel who would like to help form and shape our life has been created. The Homepage presents a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary whose life, despite adverse preconditions, was successful. In Schoenstatt, with […]
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… for Refugees from Ukraine In the past weeks, deeply moved, we have been following the flight of many people from Ukraine. Meanwhile, our co-sisters and the Schoenstatt Fathers in Poland have given a temporay home to a great number of refugees. (The Seriousness of the Covenant of Love) Now we Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary […]
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Investiture of Seven Novices of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa On February 27, 2022, the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary celebrated a great feastday: the investiture of seven novices. It took place in Mutumba. At 9:00 am the young novices processed from the novitiate house to the Shrine of […]
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Schoenstatt Sister of Mary as Coordinator for the Council of Shrine Rectors In this time in which Pope Francis emphasizes the roll of women in the Church, and on the synodal journey in which we are invited to live as a Church in communion, participation, and mission (cf. Preparatory Document) a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary—Sister Adraine […]
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Leaving with hand luggage … For ten days, since February twenty-eighth, the retreat house of our Schoenstatt Center in Otwock/Poland has been accomodating people who were forced to leave everything because of the war in Ukraine. The people left their houses and their country, abandoned all their belongings, and fled with only hand luggage […]
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Schoenstatt Girls Youth Groups in Burundi during the Pandemic I am the Schoenstatt Sister of Mary responsible for the Schoenstatt Girls Youth in Burundi, Central Africa. World-wide we find ourselves in a time not easy to do our apostolate because the coronavirus pandemic restricts us. Therefore, this past year I prayed more intensively to […]
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It was a spontaneous idea that made its round on social media. About 150 people came to the Schoenstatt Center in the Diocese of Fulda to pray for peace and to show solidarity with Ukraine. Representatives of the Ukrainian refugees who have have found accomodation in the former province house […]
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Sister M. Aquila was born into a farming family on September 3, 1923 in Filipovo, which at that time was in Yugoslavia. In the 17/18 Century her ancestors emigrated from Southern Germany to Southern Hungary (into the so-called Batschka, a region in Serbia and Hungary in middle Europe). She grew up with four siblings. […]
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“Hard times teach us to pray…” one used to say. Is that still true today? Fortunately, there have been many prayer initiatives during the pandemic–not only through the official Church. Many people also have been reached through the internet. For weeks the Ukraine-Crisis has been going through my head: “If only someone would suggest […]
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