Today I received a letter from the pastor of St. Kunibert Parish in Gymnich. I knew immediately: It was the annual invitation to the commemoration of the birthday of Father Kentenich. Actually, on November 16, 2021, we are celebrating the 136th birthday of Father Joseph Kentenich! Unfortunately, I cannot participate in this celebration, but then, […]
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The Eyes of a Fly There are many kinds of flies and they can be great pests in the summer.* But their agility never ceases to astound me! It is extremely difficult to catch them. In his talks, Father Kentenich often referred to the organ of vision of flies. For example: “The eyes of flies […]
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PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES TO SEAMSTRESSES IN THE “GOOD FUTURE” CENTER IN BUJUMBURA/BURUNDI On Friday, August 6, 2021 a celebration took place at the Queen of Confidence Center of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in Bujumbura/Schoenstatt-Mont-Gikungu. Certificates were given to seamstresses who had completed a course at the Akazoza-Keza (Good Future) center. For six months, […]
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In Schoenstatt, many things come in threes. Its Marian spirituality has three main elements: covenant spirituality, instrumentality, and everyday sanctity. Schoenstatt wishes to bring a threefold message to the world: the message of faith in divine providence, the message of the covenant of love, and the message of mission consciousness. Three special pilgrimage graces can […]
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Sister M. Margarita Juárez Venditti was a cheerful, simple and enthusiastic girl, who above all, let herself be conquered by God and his invitation to a life consecrated to his Kingdom. She was born in Tucumán, Argentina, on June 5th 1976; she was the second daughter of a religious and hard-working family. I met […]
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“If the sisters look at you with radiant eyes, you did everything correctly!” said an employee of our nurses‘ stations to a co-worker in a group discussion. A Pilot Project For the first time, a conference for the nursing staff and caregivers on the nursing teams of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary took place from […]
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“A woman has circumspect thinking. She takes in the whole person at once. She takes in the whole person opposite her. This is called intuitive thinking … By nature, a man does it more this way: He takes bits and pieces, puts one on top of the other and thinks: Does this fit here, or […]
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Information for the Schoenstatt Movement on the status of the legal proceedings concerning statements in the publication „Vater darf das!“ (ISBN 978-3-95948-494-7) After the publication of the book “Vater darf das!” in October 2020, our Secular Institute initiated legal action against the author Dr. Alexandra von Teuffenbach and the publisher Traugott Bautz. In the […]
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At the beginning there was the question: Is it really the will of God to accept this position? When we considered within the community whether I should accept the new task in the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the decision was not so easy. After a longer back and forth, the decision was […]
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The relief organization “Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)” invited Emeritus Patriarch Gregory III Laham from Damascus to Switzerland. For seventeen years, Gregory was responsible for the fate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Syria, which is united with Rome. Through contact with our house chaplain, Schoenstatt Father René Klaus, it was possible […]
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