After months of waiting and longing, the retreat center, House Schoenstatt, in Lamar, Texas, USA, could again open its doors for a full schedule of retreats and workshops. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey devastated the city of Rockport, Texas, and the surrounding area including the beautiful property and buildings of the Confidentia Shrine. As […]
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DAY FOR THE SICK, AGED AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED SCHOENSTATT, CONSTANTIA Since the early seventies, that is, roughly 45 years ago, a “Day for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged” members of our Schoenstatt Family has been held each year in Schoenstatt, Constantia. The invitation has since been extended to anyone in the Archdiocese of Cape Town […]
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Founder -traces in Bad Ems A scholar from Switzerland once summed up his meetings with Father Kentenich in the following way: “He showed us what it means to no longer belong to yourself, but are light from the light. This light continues to shine in Schoenstatt. This light flares up every place where he lived, […]
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„VICTORIOUS” “God is victorious in the end. He is always victorious.” “We will only share in his victory to the extent that we allow God to be victorious in us.“
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“Do you know the land, the City of God … where truthfulness governs?” J. Kentenich, Home Song An impulse for vocational discernment In our day and age where relativism prevails everywhere, sometimes we may find ourselves echoing Pontius Pilate’s famous question: “What is truth?” Jesus himself has given us the answer: “I am the way, […]
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Echoes about Maria Rast, the Schoenstatt Center near Euskirchen, from visitors, seminar participants and volunteers The shrine in Maria Rast is the first daughter shrine on European soil. It is visited daily by many people. The seminar participants of a city administration who met here in Advent, said in the evening when saying goodbye: Thank […]
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Sr. Mariette Niyonsaba and Sr. M. Yvonne Niragira are from Burundi. In 2017 they came to Schoenstatt for their final acceptance into our community. They then learned the German language at the Akademie Klausenhof. Today they work in the mission headquarters and in the mother house. They tell us about an invitation to the Schoenstatt […]
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Young women enter the Blessed Mother’s School of Holiness at the shrine to discover their vocation While many students were counting the days until the beginning of school, six young women in northeastern Brazil were anxiously waiting to enter the “School of Mary”. Here they want to get to know more about their lives in […]
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It begins with the education of the new man. “We are a Catholic and markedly Marian school, based on ethical and Christian values, educating responsible citizens who are aware of their role in society, preparing students for life,” says the director of the College Mãe de Deus (Londrina – Paraná / Brazil), Sr. Rosa Maria […]
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These two words wonderfully describe a weekend that we experienced as a sisters filiation in the shadow of the Original Shrine. Once again, it must be said: Because we 15 sisters from seven different countries are always allowed to experience something new: the Mother of God is at work. She attracts people and she gives […]
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