You Have the Words of Everlasting Life (John 6:68)

Investiture of Six Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa With great joy we could celebrate the investiture of six novices on October 25, 2020. Before joining us, each of them had belonged to the vocational discernment circle and was inspired by the ideal to be a little Mary. They, too, want to bring […]

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The Story of a Suitcase

We all have a suitcase in our life, – either large or small. Sister M. Emilie liked to remember a sermon about the suitcase of our life and she applied this image to her own life. God gives each person a suitcase for life; the size of the suitcase corresponds to a person’s needs and […]

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Schoenstatt Sister of Mary is Named “MINT Teacher of the Year”

“MINT Teacher of the Year” There is great joy in the Schoenstatt Marian School (SMS) in Vallendar, Germany—still in the splendor of its seventy-fifth anniversarythth—because Sister Christamaria Brueck, who formerly was a student there and now teaches religion, mathematics, and computer science, received the Klaus von Klitzing award on November 10, 2020. It is awarded […]

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Information regarding the Founder Archive

The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary will open their Founder Archive on November 16, 2020. It is located in the Novitiate House on Mount Schoenstatt. Inquiries may be directed to the archivist, Sr. M. Dominika Hügel; Tel.: 261-6404-466 Email: archiv@s-ms.org   General Government of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary

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for everyday life … 11

“We are beautiful when our soul is beautiful. Our soul is beautiful if it is completely dedicated to God and the divine. Then the whole person is beautiful…Whoever has mastery over self, who knows how to surrender their entire being to Eternal Goodness is beautiful.” (Father Joseph Kentenich, date unknown)” Fr. Joseph Kentenich date unknown […]

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BEING APOSTOLIC DURING A PANDEMIC?

For more than six months we have been challenged with the pandemic of the coronavirus. Here in the Midwest along the shores of Lake Sleepy Eye, in the shadow of our Jubilee Family Shrine, we as Schoenstatt Family have met this challenge with the coronavirus by turning to our Corona Mater, Mary our Queen-Mother. Crowning […]

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Religious Evening Music

Religious Evening Music in the Jubilee Year – or in the Year of the Pandemic Actually, at this point I intended to write a report about the jubilee events for the 10-year anniversary of the Religious Evening Music Series at the Schoenstatt Center at Liebfrauenhoehe, Germany. But Things Took a Different Turn! Instead of the jubilee […]

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Father Joseph Kentenich Social Center in Ganfanha de Nazaré

“People of a Land Where They Live from the Sea” – that’s how the population of Gafanha da Nazaré, Portugal, 3 km west of Aveiro in the small town of Ílhavo, are characterized. It’s a little village among trees, birds, and fish, surrounded by the Ria de Aveiro, a beautiful beach with a fortress to […]

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75 Years of the Schoenstatt Marian School in Vallendar

On October 1, 2020, our Schoenstatt Marian School – SMS for short – near Schoenstatt in Vallendar, Germany, celebrated its 75th birthday. Father Kentenich had had the courage to found our school In the harsh poverty of the postwar time. In so doing, he responded to the requests of parents who could no longer send […]

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