Homepage for Emilie Engel

Inspiring by her life  –  with us on the way  –  interceding for us with God   Under this guiding idea, a Homepage for Emilie Engel who would like to help form and shape our life has been created. The Homepage presents a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary whose life, despite adverse preconditions, was successful. In Schoenstatt, with […]

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Schoenstatt Opens Houses …

… for Refugees from Ukraine   In the past weeks, deeply moved, we have been following the flight of many people from Ukraine. Meanwhile, our co-sisters and the Schoenstatt Fathers in Poland have given a temporay home to a great number of refugees. (The Seriousness of the Covenant of Love)  Now we Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary […]

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You Will be Called “Mother”*

Investiture of Seven Novices of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa On February 27, 2022, the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary celebrated a great feastday: the investiture of seven novices. It took place in Mutumba. At 9:00 am the young novices processed from the novitiate house to the Shrine of […]

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Coordinator for the Council of Shrine Rectors

Schoenstatt Sister of Mary as Coordinator for the Council of Shrine Rectors  In this time in which Pope Francis emphasizes the roll of women in the Church, and on the synodal journey in which we are invited to live as a Church in communion, participation, and mission (cf. Preparatory Document) a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary—Sister Adraine […]

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The Seriousness of the Covenant of Love

Leaving with hand luggage …   For ten days, since February twenty-eighth, the retreat house of our Schoenstatt Center in Otwock/Poland has been accomodating people who were forced to leave everything because of the war in Ukraine. The people left their houses and their country, abandoned all their belongings, and fled with only hand luggage […]

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1,204 Schoenstatt Girls Youth Groups

Schoenstatt Girls Youth Groups in Burundi during the Pandemic   I am the Schoenstatt Sister of Mary responsible for the Schoenstatt Girls Youth in Burundi, Central Africa. World-wide we find ourselves in a time not easy to do our apostolate because the coronavirus pandemic restricts us. Therefore, this past year I prayed more intensively to […]

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Prayer and a Human Chain for Peace in Ukraine

        It was a spontaneous idea   that made its round on social media. About 150 people came to the Schoenstatt Center in the Diocese of Fulda to pray for peace and to show solidarity with Ukraine. Representatives of the Ukrainian refugees who have have found accomodation in the former province house […]

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Salamat!

SALAMAT – THANK  YOU – SALAMAT!   The people in the Philippines thank everyone with their Salamat for your generous help after the Typhoon Rai destroyed their homes just before Christmas in 2021. With your financial aid many a family was able to start building up their home again after the fierce storm raged through […]

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Help Bring the Pandemic to an End!

Crowning the Blessed Mother during the Pandemic as Queen On January 11, an idea came to me! So I wrote an email to the German, Italian, Croatian, and Polish speaking contact persons of the Pilgrim MTA in Switzerland and in Lichtenstein. A call to trust “Many measures for the corona measures are expected to remain […]

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We Are Your Voice: Communication to Shape History

In the year 2021, all official communication of the Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement in Brazil was determined by the motto, ´ We Are Your Voice: Communication to Shape History. As the National Coordinator for Communication, I can speak of wonders the Blessed Mother accomplishes through small instruments. Being the Blessed Virgin Mary today – being there, […]

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