A short reflection for the day of the Immaculata, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father Joseph Kentenich attested that a pure person possesses natural dignity that comes from God and a pure person knows how to preserve it. Purity makes a person receptive to grace and ready to fulfill […]
Read more
A Special Experience to Begin the Anniversary Year I knew from a co-sister that the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, St, Corbinian, is celebrated in a big way in November, with a pilgrimage of youth, among other things. In the year 2024, it will be thirteen hundred years since the arrival […]
Read more
Father Kentenich in Engers: One Hundred Years Ago For years, it has been a custom that around the time of Father Joseph Kentenich’s name-day and birthday, the Schoenstatt family gathers in the Father Kentenich House to trace his footsteps and to get to know him better. After a longer break, it is a joy for […]
Read more
Presentation of Certificates in Burundi In 2021, the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi (Central Africa) opened a school for sewing. It has the name AKAZOZA KEZA – A Good Future. The goal of the sewing center is to improve the lives of women and girls who have completed primary school, who […]
Read more
Inflame our Hearts with Your Love “Szeretet áradjon köztünk … Let love flow between us, let love burn within us, let love fill us, we pray to you, Lord. Let us be united in our hearts in fraternal love, we are all one heart in you. Inflame our hearts with your love.” These are the […]
Read more
The Blessed Mother Can be Felt at Such a Place With great joy and gratitude we could organize two pilgrimages to Schoenstatt, Germany this year. One was for families and the other was for groups participating in the Apostolate of the Pilgrim MTA. Both pilgrimage groups returned home with much enthusiasm and would gladly make […]
Read more
The Pilgrim MTA of Schoenstatt is Traveling from Home to Home Sister M. Margarit Baumeler, together with a co-sister, has built up about twelve Pilgrim MTA circles in the area of Quarten, Switzerland. Now the Pilgrim MTA is traveling within each of these circles! In addition, together with a Schoenstatt mother, Sister Baumeler had already […]
Read more
Hearts Afire and Feet Underway Twenty-six Sisters Make a Pilgrimage of Seventy-five Kilometers to the National Shrine of Aparecida, Brazil “How often in the history of the world have not small and insignificant beginnings been the source of the great and greatest accomplishments? Why could that not hold true also in our case? Whoever knows […]
Read more
Thank you for each of our co-sisters The sky is grey, and the colored leaves are falling. Come join me as I walk to our sisters’ cemetery to give thanks for the lives that have blessed mine. See here the ones who are your own! The small! The pure! Graciously unite them to yourself, […]
Read more
SURSUM CORDA – LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS! On October 6-8, 2023, the moderators and various leaders of the Schoenstatt Movement in the USA gathered for the annual National Leaders’ Convention at the International Schoenstatt Center in Waukesha, WI. Eleven states were represented among the approximately 80 participants: Texas, Tennessee, New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, […]
Read more