FIAT MARIA 2022

“It will happen … THE REUNION!” The National Convention of the Schoenstatt Girls Youth in Argentina   “It will happen … THE REUNION!” was the persistent cry during the final months of last year, an expression of the ardent desire to make the national meeting of the Schoenstatt Girls’ Youth a reality. And finally, from […]

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Credible

”You have made me a better person.” A blessing of the parish priest after Holy Mass on the third Sunday of Lent for our two sisters, Sr. M. Inez Strnad and Sr. M. Rebecca Sampang. They are about to leave West Australia to begin their news task in the East of the country, in our […]

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Trust in Our Lady

MATER PERFECTAM HABEBIT CURAM When the first group of Schoenstatt Sisters left Germany for South Africa in 1933, Father Kentenich encouraged them to place their trust in the Mother of God. As a visible reminder they had the letters M.H.C written on their travelling trunks. These letters are the abbreviation for the Latin phrase MATER […]

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Twenty-five Years of the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA in Germany

Opening of the Jubilee Year of the Pilgrim MTA Apostolate in Fulda, Germany   The jubilee team of the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA project opened the jubilee year on March 25, 2022 in Fulda at the tomb of St. Boniface during a service with Bishop Dr. Michael Gerber, Fulda. Already at the beginning of the […]

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When Hearts are Open …

… There is Joy Among Them   Today, April 11, 2022 is the fourty-seventh day since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. We are horrified by what we hear and see in the media and by what we are told by those directly affected by the war. Some of their experiences which we can […]

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Schoenstatt Apostolate for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged members

On Saturday 26th February 2022, Holy Mass for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged members of our Schoenstatt Apostolate was celebrated by Father Peter John Pearson in the House Chapel of the Sisters in Constantia, Cape Town. We were privileged to also have a Franciscan priest at the altar and members of the third order of […]

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Now is the Best Time …

For 91 New Children‘s-Trees!   Everyone who has ever visited Schoenstatt-Au in Borken, Germany knows of the venerable avenue of beautiful birch trees that for fifty years lined the street to the province house of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and which brought the guests of the Schoenstatt Center into the special atmosphere of this […]

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Conference of Secular Institutes in Brazil

The National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary Since its foundation, our institute and other Schoenstatt Secular Institutes have been members and collaborators of the National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil. Sister Maria Dorotéia Beggiato is seen on this historic photo. Over the course of the years, members of […]

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Arrival of Father Kentenich in Dachau 80 Years Ago

Sunday, March 13, 2022 was a Tabor experience for the members of the Schoenstatt Movement who had come to Dachau to commemorate the arrival of Father Kentenich there 80 years ago. The weather – a bright blue sky – set the mood. It was a completely different situation than that in Ukraine and other war-torn […]

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A Retreat during the Time of the Coronavirus?

It was again time for the Advent retreats. In the style of a well-known Advent hymn they were prepared under the theme: “Take courage and have faith!” Each year in Advent we at the Dilexit-ecclesiam Shrine in Aulendorf, Germany offer retreats to the women and mothers of the Schoenstatt Movement of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. […]

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