25 years of crowning the Regina Cor Ecclesiae Covenant Mass of the Roman Schoenstatt Movement at the Cor Ecclesiae Shrine in Rome on September 18, 2019 “Festa bagnata – festa fortunata” “When a festival ends with rain, it brings luck!” In 53 cars, the visitors of the Covenant Mass arrived at the archway of the […]
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A permanent goal of our Catholic Marian School in Santiago / Chile is to awaken solidarity with the poor. The month of August is the month of solidarity in Chile, following the example of Saint Alberto Hurtado, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to the poorest. This is why groups of our schoolgirls went […]
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May I introduce myself? I am Sister M. Edith Franzke and have been in the teaching profession since 1999. I have been allowed to work at the St. Walburg primary school in Eichstätt for some time now. Sometimes I think: This is probably the only schoolyard where the Blessed Mother looks directly at all the […]
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For the third time we have offered a retreat for a wide audience in our Movement House near the Tabor Shrine. When the participants registered, they were integrated into a WhatsApp group and received suggestions and thoughts for the spiritual preparation of this day. The theme was “Prayer and Mission” The retreat took place on […]
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A journalist lives a day with the Sisters of Mary Excerpt from a newspaper article by Patricia Hobi, Mels, Switzerland (2nd part) A life for God and our fellow men: 28 Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary live in the Neu-Schönstatt Center in Quarten. A visit to them shows that they are anything but withdrawn. Thursday It’s […]
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at the end of the first half of 2019 in the social project “Sunny Corner” Camobi – Santa Maria/RS-Brazil In the deepest winter of Santa Maria, the joy of the children in the children’s and family center “Sunny Corner” – CEFASOL shone like a radiant, warming sun. On August 17th, Saturday afternoon, many families came […]
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A journalist lives a day with the Sisters of Mary Excerpt from a newspaper article by Patricia Hobi, Mels, Switzerland (Part 1) A life for God and our fellow men: 28 Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary live in the Neu-Schönstatt Center in Quarten. A visit to them shows that they are anything but withdrawn. In advance, […]
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Post Silver Jubilee year, we have experienced that we need to trust in Divine Providence more and if we have crowned the Blessed mother, that crowning need to be lived and repeated. On Maundy Thursday, we experienced the fury of Nature and with one rain the entire drain water by over flowing destroyed the school […]
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Our “Sonnenau-WG” (WG= Community on the Way) took place in Oberkirch during Pentecost week – a Schoenstatt week for girls from 13 to 15 years. This week we live together: getting to know Schoenstatt in great conversations, cooking together, joint activities, letting the soul hang loose and experiencing wonderful times in the Shrine. There especially […]
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When I graduated from the Gastro-Operational Manager course-in (Gastro suisse) in Switzerland a few years ago, I never thought about ever studying anything in the direction of theology. Theology was in my eyes something for “students”, but not for me. In recent years not only my external situation changed, but also my thinking about God […]
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