September 15, 1968: Father Kentenich goes into eternal life! What happened on September 15, 1968, at seven o’clock in the morning in the Adoration Church on Mount Schoenstatt? The answer is as complex as the attachment to Father Joseph Kentenich and the understanding of his charism. We Sisters of Mary like to say: On this […]
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A journalist lives a day with the Sisters of Mary Excerpt from a newspaper article by Patricia Hobi, Mels, Switzerland (2nd part) A life for God and our fellow men: 28 Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary live in the Neu-Schönstatt Center in Quarten. A visit to them shows that they are anything but withdrawn. Thursday It’s […]
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at the end of the first half of 2019 in the social project “Sunny Corner” Camobi – Santa Maria/RS-Brazil In the deepest winter of Santa Maria, the joy of the children in the children’s and family center “Sunny Corner” – CEFASOL shone like a radiant, warming sun. On August 17th, Saturday afternoon, many families came […]
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A journalist lives a day with the Sisters of Mary Excerpt from a newspaper article by Patricia Hobi, Mels, Switzerland (Part 1) A life for God and our fellow men: 28 Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary live in the Neu-Schönstatt Center in Quarten. A visit to them shows that they are anything but withdrawn. In advance, […]
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through “Pastoral care in the environment” There are many ways for a Sister of Mary to help the Blessed Mother renew the world from the Shrine. Every personal talent is at the same time a gift of God to the community, which each Sister can develop according to her possibilities. With a lot of administrative […]
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Post Silver Jubilee year, we have experienced that we need to trust in Divine Providence more and if we have crowned the Blessed mother, that crowning need to be lived and repeated. On Maundy Thursday, we experienced the fury of Nature and with one rain the entire drain water by over flowing destroyed the school […]
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Our “Sonnenau-WG” (WG= Community on the Way) took place in Oberkirch during Pentecost week – a Schoenstatt week for girls from 13 to 15 years. This week we live together: getting to know Schoenstatt in great conversations, cooking together, joint activities, letting the soul hang loose and experiencing wonderful times in the Shrine. There especially […]
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When I graduated from the Gastro-Operational Manager course-in (Gastro suisse) in Switzerland a few years ago, I never thought about ever studying anything in the direction of theology. Theology was in my eyes something for “students”, but not for me. In recent years not only my external situation changed, but also my thinking about God […]
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„Crown for a crown” “Every consecration and every crowning of our Queen pleases me greatly! We tell Our Lady anew: It is your responsibility to rule our family! From now on our answer to all difficulties is: You have to do it. That is your responsibility.”
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Physiotherapist “My name is Sister Petra-Maria. I’m a physiotherapist.” It is not uncommon for the first encounter with a new patient to begin in this or a similar way. For four years I have been working as a physiotherapist in a clinic in Koblenz, not far from Vallendar, Schoenstatt. And your work colleagues? “Do people […]
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