A Last Meeting with Pope Francis

Together with the Universal Church, we Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary mourn the passing of our Holy Father, Pope Francis. Our community is present in Rome through a household of sisters who live at the Cor Ecclesiae Shrine, very close to the Vatican. During the past few days, they had the opportunity to meet with the […]

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Young Women Who Would Like MORE

Seven young mothers sealed the covenant of love with the Mother Thrice Admirable in the Schoenstatt Shrine in Brig, Switzerland Seven young mothers sealed the covenant of love with the Mother Thrice Admirable in the Schoenstatt Shrine in Brig, Switzerland  For seven years, some young women have been meeting every month in House Schoenstatt in […]

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Study Conference of the Schoenstatt Secular Institutes 2025

From February 21-23, 2025, members of the six Schoenstatt Secular Institutes came together for the eighth time for a study conference on Mount Moriah in Schoenstatt, Germany. After the previous conferences in which the evangelical councils were the focus, this time the  focus was on the calling to be secular institutes in a digital world. […]

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Pilgrims of Hope – for 90 years

“This is an interesting coincidence: the 90th anniversary of the Sisters of Mary in Dietershausen ­and the motto for the Holy Year “Pilgrims of Hope,” said a participant at the ­­meeting day on January 26, 2025 at the Schoenstatt Center in Dietershausen, Diocese of Fulda. How much both events, 90 years since the first arrival […]

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En Route as “Pilgrims of Hope”

The First Covenant Celebration in 2025 at the  Schoenstatt-Au in Borken, Germany “A wonderful evening. A ray of hope in all the confusion today! The hope was palpable …”  What moved Mrs. M. was expressed in a similar way by other people at this first covenant evening in the New Year. After all, this eighteenth […]

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Meeting Father Kentenich

When we approached the 50th anniversary of the death of our founder Father Joseph Kentenich in 2018, we reflected upon what we could offer as a regional Schoenstatt Family in Valais, Switzerland to make our founder even better known to the local people. Learning more Angela Schwestermann from the Schoenstatt Family League and Sister M. […]

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Temeswar-Vienna-Kahlenberg

A Youth Pilgrimage at the Beginning of the Year 2025 The two Catholic youth groups from Timisoara – Hungarian-speaking and Romanian-speaking – still enthusiastic from last year’s Schoenstatt trip on New Year’s Eve, fulfilled their great wish to begin this new year at a Schoenstatt Shrine. Thanks to generous donations from Germany and their own […]

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They Came and Saw

“Rabbi,  where do you live?”  He said to them, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where he lived and stayed with him that day; it was like the tenth hour.” (John 1:38-39) This is the experience of the youth group of this year’s “School of Leaders”. They wanted to get to know the […]

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A Pilgrimage
of Children
to the Shrine

During the morning of November 29, 2024 the children of the  Raio de Sol¹  (Sunray) Kindergarten made a pilgrimage to the Schoenstatt Shrine in Atibaia, Brazil. With the Mother Three Times Admirable of Schoenstatt, they experienced a day filled with faith and joy. They sang, prayed, and delighted the other pilgrims who had also come […]

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