The National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary Since its foundation, our institute and other Schoenstatt Secular Institutes have been members and collaborators of the National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil. Sister Maria Dorotéia Beggiato is seen on this historic photo. Over the course of the years, members of […]
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Sunday, March 13, 2022 was a Tabor experience for the members of the Schoenstatt Movement who had come to Dachau to commemorate the arrival of Father Kentenich there 80 years ago. The weather – a bright blue sky – set the mood. It was a completely different situation than that in Ukraine and other war-torn […]
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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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