– For Advent – “The way in which God came into the world is also the way in which man comes to God. This way is called Mary.” (J. Kentenich) In the darkness of the first Advent, Mary gave God an unconditional YES. She is the woman of the new beginning. She is the sign […]
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Sister M. Ivone Zenovello from Brazil lives in Rome and works for the “Pilgrim Shrine Project”. On her travels throughout Italy, she witnesses how people experience the closeness and help of Mary through the Pilgrim Shrines. Mary works: in the families A young family in Sicily told me how the Pilgrim Mother came to them […]
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Sister M. Rita Baysari from Australia: My name is Sr. M. Rita and I come from Australia. It is there I got to know Schoenstatt and discovered my vocation. In 2014 I moved to Germany to join our community in Schoenstatt in September 2015. After two years of novitiate, a time of introduction to the […]
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On September 21, 2019, all Schoenstatters in Burundi celebrated the golden anniversary of the coronation of the MTA in the Shrine of Mutumba as Queen of Trust. The October Week, which began on September 19th on Mount Sion in Bujumbura, ended in Mutumba with the great celebration of the coronation of the Queen of Trust. […]
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Inner freedom! Who does not want to reach this and live it in fullness? The anniversary of the departure of Sister Emilie Engel into eternity invites us to look at her. We discover the power of grace which became more and more effective in her life in a long process. Her inner growth enabled her […]
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„Heavenwards“ “Our way leads homewards to the Father.” “That should actually always be my personal answer to all the blows of fate in my life. Not to separate myself from the Father-God, but to return home to the Father-God, now already on earth and finally in eternity.”
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This is how Bishop József-Csaba Pál describes the new small Schoenstatt Center in Timisoara. Since April 2019, the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary have had their first filiation here in Romania. “A beautiful house, I like it”, said one of the participants at the celebration – and: “You can feel the optimistic spirit, it is good!” […]
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Development Center of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, that helps you get free from your own self, to live for the others and help them.” Joy, compromise, trust, effort, solidarity. These are the values that “La Nazarena” focuses on and lives by. It is a Development Center built by the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in […]
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Sunday morning. It’s Harvest Thanksgiving Day! I’m going to the Adoration Church. Like my fellow sisters and many pilgrims, I am excited about the harvest altar, which our garden sisters and their team always prepare with much creativity and love. Already as I enter the church, I see from afar the harvest crown of ears […]
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“You are a mission!” With this word, Pope Francis calls us, in the month of world mission, to reawaken our enthusiasm for the good news of Christianity and to spread it courageously in today’s world. Father Kentenich, the founder of the international Schoenstatt Movement, expressed it this way: “Mission is the idealism of Christianity! As […]
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