“If the sisters look at you with radiant eyes, you did everything correctly!” said an employee of our nurses‘ stations to a co-worker in a group discussion. A Pilot Project For the first time, a conference for the nursing staff and caregivers on the nursing teams of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary took place from […]
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Information for the Schoenstatt Movement on the status of the legal proceedings concerning statements in the publication „Vater darf das!“ (ISBN 978-3-95948-494-7) After the publication of the book “Vater darf das!” in October 2020, our Secular Institute initiated legal action against the author Dr. Alexandra von Teuffenbach and the publisher Traugott Bautz. In the […]
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At the beginning there was the question: Is it really the will of God to accept this position? When we considered within the community whether I should accept the new task in the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the decision was not so easy. After a longer back and forth, the decision was […]
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The relief organization “Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)” invited Emeritus Patriarch Gregory III Laham from Damascus to Switzerland. For seventeen years, Gregory was responsible for the fate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Syria, which is united with Rome. Through contact with our house chaplain, Schoenstatt Father René Klaus, it was possible […]
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Today on the founding day of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, we may share some joyful news: On September 29, 2021, it was officially announced in Rome that Sister M. Isabell Naumann was named a member of the International Theological Commission. Sister M. Isabell is the provincial assistant for Australia and the Philippines. She is […]
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The Park of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Trier – a Paradise for both Human Beings and Animals Visitors discovered long ago that squirrels have found a permanent and paradisiacal abode in Caspary Park in Trier-Heiligkreuz. Fast as lightning they move from branch to branch, climb up and down the trees, and cross […]
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“Enrich the life of the Church with your charism!” This request of Pope John Paul to our Institute prompted our Brazilian province, the Schoenstatt Tabor Province with its headquarters in Atibaia, SP, to send a sister in the 1990s to Italy to bring the charism of Schoenstatt there, to enrich the life of Church in […]
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With great joy we announce that the collection of prayers “Heavenwards” has now been published in the Polish language! For a long time the Schoenstatt Family in Poland awaited these fundamental texts of its founder, Father Joseph Kentenich. Various attempts to translate and compile the individual prayers had been undertaken. But a unified translation that […]
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Our two Schoenstatt-Summer Camps in Hungary at the youth house Mary Home were very beautiful. Seventeen girls, aged 9-12, from the areas of Timisiora, Arad, and Szeged (Hungary) attended the first week. Some of the girls from this group attend every year. The theme was “You are precious!” Four of these 17 girls sealed the […]
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The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of our incorporatiaon into the Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary brought us great joy and gratitude. We are deeply aware that God chose us, called us, formed us, and sent us! Therefore we can sing the Magnificat with Mary: “My soul magnifies the Lord, for he has […]
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