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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The power of love of the Queen On the festive day, August 15, 2018, doctors, nurses, staff, patients, members of the board of directors gathered; there more than 350 people to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Coronation of the Blessed Mother. Her picture in the main entrance was crowned fifty years ago, on August […]
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September 6 to October 13, 2018 During the days surrounding the 50th anniversary of the death of Father Joseph Kentenich and in the shadow of his last resting place in the church of the Blessed Trinity, the 9th General Congress of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary is taking place. In the motherhouse of the Schoenstatt […]
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The “Queen of the New Evangelization of Europe” at the Feast of Encounter on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, in Borken Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary – in our area of Germany a normal working day: In the Schoenstatt Au in Borken we celebrated our “Feast of Encounter” and were richly blessed! We began […]
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Meet the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement today – that makes you sit up and take notice. The place where Father Joseph Kentenich completed his life 50 years ago always invites one to such an encounter. People from all over the world come here to get to know this special place. As part of the Kentenich […]
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