“My life and the life of Father Kentenich – are they not worlds apart? It cannot be that he has something to say and to give to me and my life!” An understandable reaction when you see “only” the great founder and his work in front of you. But he, too, could only walk the […]
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“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God” (Lk 1:30) Three hundred young people are gathered in Rome during these days to discuss the topic of Church, youth, and vocation. But this is only the minority of participants – a total of 14,100 young people are involved in the discussion online […]
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Reception Ceremony of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Schoenstatt There was great anticipation before the feast day, March 18, 2018, for the five novices from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Philippines; their relatives; the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary; and all those who wanted to experience this day. Vigil the Night Before This was already […]
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It won’t take long before a certain couple will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. The man tells us joyfully that they are now having the letters bound which they wrote at the time of their first love. These love letters are more for them than a few pieces of paper and a little ink. These […]
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Immaculata Patris – Ver Sacrum for today! Seven young women from Paraguay and Chile spent almost two blessed months in Schoenstatt from January 8 to March 4, 2018. They lived with the Sisters of Mary on Mount Schoenstatt. They wanted to grow deeper into Schoenstatt’s spirituality and then fly back home strengthened to help – […]
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I had just returned to Schoenstatt from South Africa a half a year before – a few girls near the Original Shrine came to me and asked me if I would like to begin a Schoenstatt group with them. I was totally surprised, but also gladly ready to do this. Since then in 2012 I […]
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A climate of expectation and of joy reigned in the “Mãe de Deus” School of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Londrina, State of Parana, Brazil. On the 5th of February, the first day of school, the students were surprised with new, remodeled classrooms. One could see in the eyes of the more than 600 […]
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“Who am I that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:43) An icon of the Blessed Mother of Czestochowa has been visiting the Polish dioceses and parishes since the end of the 1950s. Since September of the past year it has been “pilgrimaging” through the diocese of Warsaw-Prague where our provincial […]
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From January 15 to 22 about 70 sisters from the so-called Dynamic Province met for their yearly schooling and community week. On December 8, 1966 this province was constituted. All the sisters who work for the Movement were gathered together into this province. The Dynamic Province Soon after the founding of the Sisters of Mary […]
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Every Day a Day of Grace “It was good for me. I will come again.” “I could really shut down.” “I have been here more often. Here I can come to rest and refuel.” These are the echoes Sister M. Annjetta Hirscher heard after the Oasis Days which she accompanied at the Liebfrauenhoehe from February […]
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