For more than six months we have been challenged with the pandemic of the coronavirus. Here in the Midwest along the shores of Lake Sleepy Eye, in the shadow of our Jubilee Family Shrine, we as Schoenstatt Family have met this challenge with the coronavirus by turning to our Corona Mater, Mary our Queen-Mother. Crowning […]
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Religious Evening Music in the Jubilee Year – or in the Year of the Pandemic Actually, at this point I intended to write a report about the jubilee events for the 10-year anniversary of the Religious Evening Music Series at the Schoenstatt Center at Liebfrauenhoehe, Germany. But Things Took a Different Turn! Instead of the jubilee […]
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“People of a Land Where They Live from the Sea” – that’s how the population of Gafanha da Nazaré, Portugal, 3 km west of Aveiro in the small town of Ílhavo, are characterized. It’s a little village among trees, birds, and fish, surrounded by the Ria de Aveiro, a beautiful beach with a fortress to […]
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On October 1, 2020, our Schoenstatt Marian School – SMS for short – near Schoenstatt in Vallendar, Germany, celebrated its 75th birthday. Father Kentenich had had the courage to found our school In the harsh poverty of the postwar time. In so doing, he responded to the requests of parents who could no longer send […]
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Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary Statement on the article by Felix Neumann on katholisch.de, published on October 26, 2020: Kentenich and His Sisters: “Father May Do That” The article, published on katholisch.de, announces the publication of a “collection of documents” by Alexandra von Teuffenbach, for which she draws mainly on material […]
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The graffiti artwork of Raimund Mylius and Pierre Steinbeck, two artists residing in Trier, is impressive. Within six weeks, they brought epic animal and nature themes to life on the 45-meter-long by 3.5-meter-high wall bordering the park of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. On background tones of gray and brown, colorful frogs, butterflies, fish, and […]
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With great joy and gratitude, we would like to share our experiences that we made some time ago. We would never have imagined beforehand that this could be achieved. In addition to many challenges and difficult situations, the Covid-19 pandemic has also given us new opportunities to learn, especially in the field of communication. One […]
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“When we give the Blessed Mother our heart and the Blessed Mother gives us her heart, then we can go through the world with our head up, with clear eyes and with a courageous step.” P. Josef Kentenich IMPULSE It is a matter of the head: how self-aware I go before others does not […]
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It was ten years ago… I am on the road with the Pilgrim Mother in the Principality of Liechtenstein. There are currently eight pilgrimage shrines in this country. In Vaduz my gaze falls on the castle. To the Blessed Mother I silently say: “How about if you visited the royal family at the castle?!” What […]
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The day care center “Jardim Marabá” is located in the eastern zone of Londrina in the Marabá district, one of the poorest areas of the city. About 130 children between the ages of two and five are cared for there from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Many of the parents are unemployed. If they have […]
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