“Thank you, sisters, for putting Christ back into Christmas!” This was the comment of one young mother who encountered the Schoenstatt Sisters and some members of the Schoenstatt movement at a popular shopping centre in Cape Town. Several years ago, we Sisters began the apostolate “Christ in the mall”. On the last Sunday of Advent, […]
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In our city at the entrance a detailed, classic alpine hut was built to the large shopping center and in front of it is a landscape with two animals. One of the animals is a deer. The deer doesn’t simply stand there. It moves its head to the right and to the left and up […]
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Thanks to the Coronavirus: An Online Course “Covenant of Love” When, during these weeks, I look at the beginning of the online courses “Covenant of Love,” I can only say: Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we are doing this! That’s how I can summarize things after offering this course eight times. For the year 2020, […]
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PERUGINO, PIETRO, ca. 1450-1523, Detail from MADONNA ENTHRONED BETWEEN JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. SEBASTIAN, 1493, Florence, Italy: Galleria Uffizzi “ Qué soï era immaculado councepcioũ” – “I am the Immaculate Conception” Mary’s predilection as the Immaculata points to the sublime degree of her holiness. Her spiritual wealth constitutes that dimension of her being, which is […]
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“ Qué soï era immaculado councepcioũ” – “I am the Immaculate Conception” In 1858 at the Massabielle rock near Lourdes, France, Our Lady identified herself to Bernadette in the local dialect as the Immaculate Conception, thereby confirming the dogma promulgated some years earlier on December 8, 1854. This self-revelation belongs to the core of her […]
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Dressed in the Colors of Schoenstatt: Blue and Yellow Every year, at the end of October and the beginning of November, the women in Schoenstatt who are in academia in Burundi organize a three-day workshop. This year it took place from November 4-6 in Bujumbura/Gikungu. The Schoenstatt women in academia in Burundi have the […]
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At the end of October, the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary sent invitations to a vocation retreat in Londrina, which is in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Twelve young women attended in person at the house and shrine of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. Two others joined online. The motto was: “Hearts on fire, feet on the […]
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A Center for General Development Nazareth is a center for general development. It was founded in 2018 by the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary to better meet the educational, health, and employment needs of families in Florencio Varela/Province of Buenos Aires. We are currently working with more than 40 families and about 300 children and […]
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My Home is Your Shrine October 22 and 23, 2022: Our joy was great at seeing one another after a long time and to come to the shrine to immerse ourselves in the Schoenstatt atmosphere and to be kindled anew for the mission. The participants came from the regions of Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Sicily, Apulia, […]
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Golden jubilee of the Schoenstatt Tabor Shrine of the Perpetual Presence of the Father The celebration of the golden jubilee of the Schoenstatt Tabor Shrine of the Perpetual Presence of the Father, which is located in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil was preceded by a tridium from September 14-16. The first day of the tridium, […]
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