Candidacy in the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary will Begin in February After a long period of decision-making, after intensive study of the German language, and still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, on February 1, 2021, eleven young women so far from Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Austria, Poland, and Vietnam, […]
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Every year at Christmas we realize once again that the miserable manger in the stable of Bethlehem was not a suitable place for the Christ Child to sleep. Here in La Victoria we come in contact again and again with families who do not have good mattresses. To help these people we started the initiative: […]
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— Many Experiences, Many Risks, Many Blessing! This year, not only numerous shrines in Germany celebrate an anniversary, but we Sisters of Mary commemorate the foundation of two house communities of our sisters in 1940 in northern Germany: in Wilhelmshaven and in Neuenkirche/Oldenburg. Since September 14, 1940, there are Schoenstatt Sisters in the North See […]
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On December 8, 2020, it will be 100 years since the first women joined the Schoenstatt Movement. To celebrate this occasion, a new website is to be launched as a sign of gratitude: 100 women from the various communities of women and families in Schoenstatt tell their story. Women of all ages, different walks of […]
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For me this is a Dream Job! An Interview with Sr. M. Anna-Simona Menz, Schoenstatt by Sr. M. Linda Wegerer Sr. M. Linda: Sister M. Anna-Simona, we are sitting here very pleasantly in the entrance area of the Marienland Retreat Center—and that on a Sunday afternoon! Under ordinary circumstances this would actually be impossible for […]
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Because of my profession as an educator in a home for children, I meet with young mothers. In March 2020, I wanted to invite three mothers who were expecting a child to receive a mother/parent blessing. But then came the lockdown. The children’s home was closed from one day to the next and the connection […]
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During the pandemic, our work and our pastoral care in the Schoenstatt Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA looks a little different. Requests arrive daily for prayers and for materials needed for independent work in the parish. In many parishes, the Pilgrim MTA still travels regularly among families. Members of the [Pilgrim MTA] circles participate monthly […]
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Investiture of Six Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa With great joy we could celebrate the investiture of six novices on October 25, 2020. Before joining us, each of them had belonged to the vocational discernment circle and was inspired by the ideal to be a little Mary. They, too, want to bring […]
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We all have a suitcase in our life, – either large or small. Sister M. Emilie liked to remember a sermon about the suitcase of our life and she applied this image to her own life. God gives each person a suitcase for life; the size of the suitcase corresponds to a person’s needs and […]
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“MINT Teacher of the Year” There is great joy in the Schoenstatt Marian School (SMS) in Vallendar, Germany—still in the splendor of its seventy-fifth anniversarythth—because Sister Christamaria Brueck, who formerly was a student there and now teaches religion, mathematics, and computer science, received the Klaus von Klitzing award on November 10, 2020. It is awarded […]
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