Sister M. Petra Schnürer – A Life for Schoenstatt Many people from all parts of the world knew Sister M. Petra Schnürer. She spent her life for the mission of Schoenstatt. Having known our father and founder personally, she brought his life, work, and teaching closer to many people. On September 18, God called our […]
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In this year, when we celebrate 100 years of the first women in Schoenstatt, we are invited by our founder to look at the person of Sr. M. Emanuele Seyfried “an excellent case of womanly wisdom“, “exceptionally noble, extraordinary elegant, extraordinary”. This is how Fr. Joseph Kentenich identified her when she was elected General Superior […]
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We know that music has a calming influence on our lives. It helps us to think and pray and to be interiorly uplifted. What not everyone knows, however, is that Schoenstatt made a significant contribution to music in Brazil. Among the 12 German missionary sisters who were sent to Brazil by the founder, Father Joseph […]
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Mission at the religious memorial sites in Dachau during the 2020 pandemic I have been a consultant at the concentration camp memorial for several years. I mostly lead school classes. Sometimes I can walk through the memorial with Schoenstatt groups in the footsteps of Father Kentenich. Because of the pandemic, the memorial was completely closed […]
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International seminar in Schoenstatt To be in Schoenstatt once in a lifetime – that is where every Schoenstatter’s longing goes. Participating once in a lifetime in an international seminar in Schoenstatt and thus spending five months at the place of foundation and grace – this year sixteen Sisters of Mary of the younger generation from […]
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… This is how the journalist Christoph Hägele describes one of our Sisters of Mary in the newspaper “Fränkischer Tag”. How did he get there? The summer series 2020 of the newspaper wants to let people from different villages and cities in the country have their say and show how they live, what moves them, […]
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“To be even more one heart and one soul…”, this wish of Father Kentenich stands above the celebration of the renewal of the coronation, at which around 100 members of the secular institutes of the Ladies of Schoenstatt and the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary as well as the Schoenstatt Women’s Federation took part on August […]
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A report by Amalia Tornini, Member of the Board of Directors “Casa de María”, El Peñon, Chile Those who thought that this terrible pandemic was about to peak and that the contagion was decreasing were wrong. There are still strict traveling restrictions for most of the metropolitan areas in our city of Santiago and other […]
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Who does what??? “Who will set up bed linen?” – “I will pack games.” – “Should I ask the kitchen to prepare food for us?” We four sisters were occupied with such questions for a few days. They increased the anticipation of our vacation together. We are allowed to spend it in a small house […]
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“… we won’t let that be taken from us!” Corona is making a heavy line through the calendar At the beginning of the year, my schedule for 2020 looked promising: group meetings, women’s congresses, jubilee days, schooling days, vacation weeks – all the events to which I was supposed to accompany various sisters in order […]
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