„Heavenwards“ “Our way leads homewards to the Father.” “That should actually always be my personal answer to all the blows of fate in my life. Not to separate myself from the Father-God, but to return home to the Father-God, now already on earth and finally in eternity.”
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“You are a mission!” With this word, Pope Francis calls us, in the month of world mission, to reawaken our enthusiasm for the good news of Christianity and to spread it courageously in today’s world. Father Kentenich, the founder of the international Schoenstatt Movement, expressed it this way: “Mission is the idealism of Christianity! As […]
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∼ October 18 ∼ “I have come to cast fire upon the earth. How happy I would be if it were already burning”.[1] These words of Jesus illuminate the event of October 18, 1914 in the small chapel in Schoenstatt. The Holy Spirit lit the fire of a charism in the heart of Father Joseph Kentenich from […]
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„FIRE” „Your hearts have caught fire.” „You have made my plan your own. With confidence I place it and its fulfillment into your hands …”
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„Climb higher”!“ “I want to climb higher with you, up to the stars, up into heaven! The Blessed Mother has given the family to me anew … so that I can form and shape it and then pass on into eternity, from where I will continue to take care of my life’s work in a […]
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September 15, 1968: Father Kentenich goes into eternal life! What happened on September 15, 1968, at seven o’clock in the morning in the Adoration Church on Mount Schoenstatt? The answer is as complex as the attachment to Father Joseph Kentenich and the understanding of his charism. We Sisters of Mary like to say: On this […]
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„Crown for a crown” “Every consecration and every crowning of our Queen pleases me greatly! We tell Our Lady anew: It is your responsibility to rule our family! From now on our answer to all difficulties is: You have to do it. That is your responsibility.”
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„Totally” „I now place myself entirely at your disposal with all that I am and have: my knowledge and ignorance, my ability and inability, but above all, my heart.”
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“SUN” “Sun-people, Sun-children, that is: Christians who constantly circle around the sun of Divine Love.” We want to be people “who themselves become little suns, … from whom a constant, uniquely joyful and bright atmosphere emanates, and in whose wake people feel at ease.”
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An impulse for the month of May The month of May in the Catholic Church, at least in the northern hemisphere, is traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Mother. In temperate climates, it is a month when new life blossoms all around us and springtime explodes in its splendor and beauty. Parishes, groups, families, and individuals […]
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