The Message of an Attractive Church

On the eve of Laetare Sunday, the Sunday of joy during Lent, a special service took place for the first time in the coronation church on Liebfrauenhöhe. In a cooperation project with the Musikverein Ergenzingen and the choir Notabene from the neighboring village Baisingen, the service became a message, an experience of God’s unconditional love […]

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Night watch at the Black Madonna

As living members of the Church, we have been keeping watch with the Schoenstatt Family in Poland at the Black Madonna in Czestochowa. On the night before the fourth Sunday of Lent, the Schoenstatt Family in Poland has been meeting for many years on the Bright Mountain (Jasna Góra) in Czestochowa. We experience ourselves as […]

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“PRAY together” – a spark ignites

March 24, 2019: The initiative “Praying together” took place in many locations throughout Germany. The Adoration Sisters on Mount Schoenstatt also participated and offered the time of prayer in the Adoration Chapel. From Gabi Wehner from the diocese of Fulda came the initial spark: “Everything is in upheaval: in the parish, in the church, in […]

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A Hospital with a Shrine Atmosphere

“‘Santa Casa’, a holy house – and in a holy house one should live holy. He who lives holy is holy.” These words of Father Joseph Kentenich during his visit to the Santa Casa Hospital in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, on April 12, 1947, became our motto. “In spite of the difficulties that exist, I would […]

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Hanging the Heart in the Shrine

100 Years of Plaques in the Original Shrine – 125 Years since the Consecration to Mary by Father Kentenich Sister M. Pia has once again excavated and investigated and brought to light events with small details, some of which were not yet known. One Schoenstatt Father humorously called them “holy moles”. On the evening of […]

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The Gift of Suffering

Perhaps you are thinking: The gift of suffering? What does that mean? Gifts are usually something we appreciate, something we desire or are happy to receive. None of these descriptions match up with suffering. Just thinking about the sufferings we all have to encounter – disappointments, family struggles, physical or emotional pain, guilt, confusion… How […]

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Kentenich-WORD „RADIANCE”

„RADIANCE” A reflection of the dear Mother of God.   “What we proclaim outwardly, we want tobe inwardly: a refl ection of the dear Mother of God. Her splendour should radiate from our entire being.”

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In the shadow of the Matterhorn

Kentenich week in Zermatt Two years ago I told our pastor about the Kentenich year and the desire to make our founder, Father Joseph Kentenich, more internationally known on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. The pastor was very open with regard to Zermatt: Why should we not call out a Kentenich […]

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We Schoenstatt Adoration Sisters Participate

“To pray together” The Pilgrim Shrine project had invited people to pray for peace in the world and in the many concerns of people today on the eve of the feast of the Annunciation. We Schoenstatt Adoration Sisters have joined in praying and meditating on the rosary with all who have accepted this invitation. We […]

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A time in Original Schoenstatt

…  in the Footsteps of Father Kentenich I would like to joyfully share my experience: a group of young people from different countries of the world lived here for a few weeks in Schoenstatt, in our holy places. It was a great gift for me to accompany them in these two months. The young women […]

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