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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Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary during the Corona Pandemic We are now in the third part of our documentary about the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in times of the Corona Pandemic. Today we would like to show you how we have tried to help people in need. In a very concrete way, this was done in […]
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In the Anniversary Year of the Women’s Movement The work in the pilgrim center in Schoenstatt is always marked by surprises. The visit of the Gerlach family and their relatives in recent weeks was a special experience. This family is related to Marie Christmann, the late sister M. Magdalena, and her cousin Gertraud von Bullion. […]
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“I must embed my littleness into the greatness of God. My littleness, my powerlessness will be taken up by the all-powerful God. My weaknesses will be taken up, supplemented by the greatness and the power of the almighty, the eternal God.” Fr. Joseph Kentenich October Week 1967 IMPULSE “Littleness, powerlessness, weakness” – not exactly our […]
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A human heart beats for us in heaven! What kind of heart is that? It is the heart of the Blessed Mother, who ascended to heaven with body and soul. It is a genuinely human heart that, from heaven, is motherly for the people who still make pilgrimages on this earth. The feast of the […]
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Welcome to the second part of our documentary about our life as Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary during the Corona Pandemic. In the first part we have seen what prayer initiatives have developed in our worldwide community during the last months. This second video is about our apostolic work, about our connection with the groups in the […]
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How did the Corona Pandemic affect us as Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary? The last months have brought many changes, sacrifices, questions and worries – also for us Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. Many things that we were used to were no longer possible. But this crisis has also awakened much creativity in our worldwide community. In […]
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… MANY PILGRIMS VISIT THE SHRINE Since March 22, 2020, the gates to the Schoenstatt Shrine “Tabor of the Everlasting Presence of the Father” in Atibaia / State of São Paulo – Brazil have been closed due to the “Covid-19” pandemic. This prompted a ‘fire in the embers’ in the sisters to “go out from […]
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