The cafeteria “Hogar de Maria” (Mary’s Home) in Santiago was founded many years ago by the German missionary Sister M. Adelfonsis to ensure that children from needy families received a hot lunch every day. Since the children can now eat free of charge in the state schools, “Mary’s Home” has been changed primarily to a […]
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Sister Maria Hroswitha Jochheim August 6, 1904 – July 22, 1998 Sr. M. Hroswitha was born on the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, on August 6, 1904, in Ikenhausen, Westphalia. She was the youngest girl of eight children. When did she hear about Schoenstatt? Early in the 1920s, Sr. M. Hroswitha heard about the […]
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“Without our Schoenstatt Mother, Schoenstatt is absolutely incapable of fulfilling its mission in the present time. I repeat: Just as there is no salvation without the Mother of God, so there is also no fruitful Schoenstatt realm without our Schoenstatt mothers.” Father Joseph Kentenich, May 30, 1966 IMPULS A strong statement! Father is counting on […]
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Capturing those special moments is an art Over the last few weeks, the “Queen of the Night” has been blossoming outside the Shrine at Villa Maria in Cape Town. The “Queen of the Night” is an extraordinary cactus which can grow up to seven meters. It has the most amazing large flowers shaped like majestic […]
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Gratitude is the Memory of the Heart At the end of 2020, a year of intense challenges, isolation, searching for new methods and new creativity, we asked ourselves the question: What can we do Online to reach pilgrims and what feeling can we awaken in the hearts of people in this Advent and Christmas season? […]
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Interview of Sister M. Irena with Sister M. Elinor Grimm Sr M. Irena: Sr. M. Elinor, since the middle of November you have been in Algäu. How did that happen? Otherwise you are in Dachau and Kösching? Sister M. Elinor: Shortly before my name day I received a phone call from my superior on the […]
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Since both our retreat house and training center as well the dormitory for women in Constantia could no longer be used as such because of the Covid 19 restrictions, and since we now had an empty building and a staff without work, we came up with the idea to begin a project to fight poverty. […]
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For about a year now, our sisters’ house in Romania has been well reinforced with Sr. Marie-Gudrun. In an interview already published, she gives us an insight into how she is doing in another European country. Sr. Marie-Gudrun, what moved you to make the decision to come to Temeswar in the Diocese of Temeswar? Since […]
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“Nothing without you! I do not want to strive without the Blessed Mother … When inner difficulties come, temptations that toss us back and forth: “Nothing without you!” The Blessed Mother has to take care of me. As a Schoenstatt child I have a special right to the love of the Blessed Mother. It […]
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Our Mission in the Year of the Pandemic We sisters in the Mater Dei Hospital have experienced an extraordinary year. We were conscious that we, in the name of our entire international family, had to give a “credible” response in the field of health care. One afternoon in March or April—these were very “dark weeks” […]
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