With his call into eternity, Father Kentenich has fulfilled his promise to come “from heaven” to us, to Australia in the Far East. For 50 years this promise has accompanied us. In gratitude for his guidance, the Schoenstatt Family in Western Australia has decided to add a diamond to the crown of the Blessed Mother […]
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The hour has come to be Mary in the middle of the world. The situation of today’s world motivates us to take over this mission! “This is the hour of Mary!” Father Joseph Kentenich, our founder, taught us this. Just when there seems to be no way out of existing circumstances, God has determined the […]
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The day of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of our father and founder, Father Joseph Kentenich, fell this year for us within the Schoenstatt Trideum, to which every year in September the representatives of the Schoenstatt Family of Polish Dioceses gather. This year, these days had a special meaning, because as a Schoenstatt family […]
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Due to the current drought in Cape Town, the City has implemented necessary strict water restrictions. Many buildings have been installing new systems to conserve this precious gift of water and the Archdiocese of Cape Town has encouraged parishes and communities to find ways of saving water. For many months now, the Sisters have been […]
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Father Kentenich is alive! He continues his mission and works in the hearts! Throughout the Kentenich year, we here in Brazil have prepared for the anniversary of our founder’s going home into eternity: we have made him known through prayers, texts, biographies, photos, videos, cards with his words, group lessons, lectures, meetings, through a competition: […]
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My dear Schoenstatt family! At the end of 1965, when I returned to my homeland after I had been banished for 14 years, and flew over France, our Engling apostle, Fr. Menningen, over whom I threw the “prophet’s cloak” in 1942 from prison and who accompanied me, called my attention to Cambrai. Spontaneously, I realized […]
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Joseph Engling All things to all men And Mary’s own Biographical notes Born on January 5, 1898 in Prossitten, today Poland. Killed in action on October 4, 1918 at Cambrai in France. Joseph was a pupil and student in Schoenstatt, Sodalist and Prefect in the Marian Congregation in Schoenstatt, a soldier in […]
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For ten years I have been working in the German Schoenstatt Family Movement with a focus on the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Our founder, Father Joseph Kentenich, says of the family, it is the “foundation and crown” of the church and society. As a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary I am allowed to support and strengthen this […]
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“Do you wear it even when you are sleeping?” asks the eleven-year-old, pointing to my veil with a barely outstretched finger. “What do you think?” The girl shrugs. I respond, “Are you going to sleep with your baseball cap on your head?” We both laugh. “Of course, I take off the veil in the evening […]
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Since February 2015 we have been hosting refugees in our former boarding school building. In the meantime, 12 families have already been relocated to their own homes in Rottenburg, Ergenzingen, Hannover-Münden, Hechingen and Thanheim. There are currently 35 refugees living in our dorm: from Nigeria 3 adults and 4 children, 7 Syrian adults and 4 […]
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