Schoenstatt Apostolate for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged members

On Saturday 26th February 2022, Holy Mass for the Sick, Aged and Physically-challenged members of our Schoenstatt Apostolate was celebrated by Father Peter John Pearson in the House Chapel of the Sisters in Constantia, Cape Town. We were privileged to also have a Franciscan priest at the altar and members of the third order of […]

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Now is the Best Time …

For 91 New Children‘s-Trees!   Everyone who has ever visited Schoenstatt-Au in Borken, Germany knows of the venerable avenue of beautiful birch trees that for fifty years lined the street to the province house of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and which brought the guests of the Schoenstatt Center into the special atmosphere of this […]

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Conference of Secular Institutes in Brazil

The National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary Since its foundation, our institute and other Schoenstatt Secular Institutes have been members and collaborators of the National Conference of Secular Institutes of Brazil. Sister Maria Dorotéia Beggiato is seen on this historic photo. Over the course of the years, members of […]

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Arrival of Father Kentenich in Dachau 80 Years Ago

Sunday, March 13, 2022 was a Tabor experience for the members of the Schoenstatt Movement who had come to Dachau to commemorate the arrival of Father Kentenich there 80 years ago. The weather – a bright blue sky – set the mood. It was a completely different situation than that in Ukraine and other war-torn […]

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A Retreat during the Time of the Coronavirus?

It was again time for the Advent retreats. In the style of a well-known Advent hymn they were prepared under the theme: “Take courage and have faith!” Each year in Advent we at the Dilexit-ecclesiam Shrine in Aulendorf, Germany offer retreats to the women and mothers of the Schoenstatt Movement of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. […]

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Homepage for Emilie Engel

Inspiring by her life  –  with us on the way  –  interceding for us with God   Under this guiding idea, a Homepage for Emilie Engel who would like to help form and shape our life has been created. The Homepage presents a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary whose life, despite adverse preconditions, was successful. In Schoenstatt, with […]

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Schoenstatt Opens Houses …

… for Refugees from Ukraine   In the past weeks, deeply moved, we have been following the flight of many people from Ukraine. Meanwhile, our co-sisters and the Schoenstatt Fathers in Poland have given a temporay home to a great number of refugees. (The Seriousness of the Covenant of Love)  Now we Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary […]

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You Will be Called “Mother”*

Investiture of Seven Novices of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Burundi, Central Africa On February 27, 2022, the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary celebrated a great feastday: the investiture of seven novices. It took place in Mutumba. At 9:00 am the young novices processed from the novitiate house to the Shrine of […]

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Coordinator for the Council of Shrine Rectors

Schoenstatt Sister of Mary as Coordinator for the Council of Shrine Rectors  In this time in which Pope Francis emphasizes the roll of women in the Church, and on the synodal journey in which we are invited to live as a Church in communion, participation, and mission (cf. Preparatory Document) a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary—Sister Adraine […]

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The Seriousness of the Covenant of Love

Leaving with hand luggage …   For ten days, since February twenty-eighth, the retreat house of our Schoenstatt Center in Otwock/Poland has been accomodating people who were forced to leave everything because of the war in Ukraine. The people left their houses and their country, abandoned all their belongings, and fled with only hand luggage […]

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