One of our most beautiful tasks as Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary is to accompany and inspire girls’ youth groups. We support them as they are growing more and more into their vocation as women and become living images of Mary in all areas of life. Together with one of them, Gabriela Coiado Mota, I’m sharing […]
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– Testimony – Mrs. Hélène RUKUNDO is from Burundi and is active in the Schoenstatt-Mothers’ League in the Archdiocese of Gitega. She was an active member of the Schoenstatt Girls Youth as she was growing up. In 2009, she married and then joined the Schoenstatt Mothers‘ League. She has five children. She is a woman […]
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A new App from the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary of the Tabor Province in Brazil has been prepared to accompany you on the path of discerning your vocation. “Wake Up, Youth!” There you will find a selection of podcasts, music, prayers, ideas, testimonies, witnesses, videos, and inspirations for reflections. Other series and audiobooks will also […]
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Every year on the Feast of Corpus Christi, at the Schoenstatt Shrine in Bellavista (Santiago, Chile) we have a solemn procession with the Blessed Sacrament. Because it was not possible again this year to do so, we prepared a virtual event. We laid a carpet of flowers in the shrine so that after the Holy […]
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Interview of Sister M. Ediane Batalin by Sister Anne-Meike Bruek Sister M. Ediane Batalin was born in Brazil. Currently she resides in Germany at Marienland, a provincial house of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. She is taking a correspondence course in pedagogy which is given in the Portuguese language. She completed, under conditions difficult because […]
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For several weeks already we are in the midst of a true natural disaster in Mutumba and the surrounding area. On May 6, 2021 it rained profusely in the mountains. There was flooding in various places. Lack of drinking water The whole drinking water system for us sisters and for the population of the surrounding […]
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During the summer of 2019, several Iranians contacted me at the Schoenstatt Center Marienpfalz with the wish to become Catholic. Each one had their own history regarding how they had come to this decision. With admission into the “catechumenate” by Father Vogt on the First Sunday of Advent, the official preparation (for becoming Catholic) was […]
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Eyes, Ears, and Heart of the Blessed Mother A new way of actualizing the covenant of love with the Mother Three Times Admirable of Schoenstatt (MTA) has begun among the leaders of the Schoenstatt Movement in Brazil: The Schoenstatt apostolate for vocations. In concrete terms, this means searching with alert eyes for the pearl […]
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Our Province, based in Santa Maria/Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, includes three Schoenstatt Centers in the far northeast: in Salvador/Bahia, in Recife, und Garanhuns/Pernambuco (PE). There are seven Schoenstatt Sisters total who live in this region and do apostolate there. In view of the mission in this vast area and the minimal number […]
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at the Schönstatt-Center Liebfrauenhöhe The coronavirus pandemic has been a burden to us for over a year already. No one is unaffected; everyone is somehow impacted. Also me. The continuous extension of current restrictions is a handicap for me in my task of providing inspiration to and cooperation with the “Schoenstatt Movement Women and Mothers” […]
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