My experience as brother of Sister M. Martina Winkler Hello, my name is Christian Winkler and I am the older brother of Sister M. Martina. I was invited by the Sisters to give a small testimony this afternoon of what it is like and what it means for us as a family to have a […]
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Always at hand! 02.02.2020 For us Sisters of Mary as well as for the regular visitors to the Mass in our Adoration Church, we cannot imagine life without him: Brother Jacob Boos, member of the Men’s Federation and resident with the Schoenstatt Fathers on Mount Sion. Whether at normal Sunday services and devotions, at Corpus […]
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She is REALLY closest to those who need it most. 30 Pilgrim Shrines in a hospital “She is the great missionary, she will work miracles!” Trusting in this reality, 30 employees of the Santa Casa Hospital in Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil, took on the task of missionaries to bring the Blessed Mother in the Pilgrim […]
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… this is how one participant summarized her impressions of an extraordinary meeting of the Cologne Schoenstatt MJF – Schoenstatt Movement Girls and Young Women – on December 7, 2019 in Maria Rast. Inspired by the current of the “living crown”, the MJF from Cologne discovered the statue of the Immaculate Conception with a crown […]
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Drummer literally drums up money for Burundi In a 20-hour recording session in a recording studio near Munich, Bernhard Boll created the anchor for the project of his heart: A drum solo, with which he raises money – for a new clinic in the Mutumba mission station (Burundi/Africa). The YouTube video is six and a […]
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… and often a Sword in the Heart Every gift includes a task, a challenge and often a “sword” in the heart. We also perceive this reality in the life of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She was chosen to be Mother of God and Mother of the expected Messiah. What a gift of God’s […]
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Even before I formed you in the womb, I’ve chosen you, even before you came out of the womb, I have sanctified you:” (Jer 1.5) There is an old and beautiful custom of bringing children to the church to consecrate them to our Lord and the Blessed Mother. It is a custom that is unfortunately […]
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January 31, 2020 Thanks for the prayers and all support On behalf of the Schoenstatt Family in Australia, I would like to thank you all for your prayers and participation in this natural disaster which has been a cause for worry and sometimes frighteningly close to us for months now. recent photos: the grey behind […]
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Sister M. Lisette Seitzer was born on July 30, 1950 in Waldstetten / Diöz. Rottb.-Stuttgart. In May 1970 she entered the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in South Africa. After training as a teacher and working in this profession for two years, then studying psycho-pedagogy, anthropology and theology in French at a university […]
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“The key to Education is Love and Reverence J.K.” On Friday, 6th December, 2019, the “Villa Maria Educare” celebrated 50 years of its present existence! The Schoenstatt Sisters had been educating children in Cape Town many years before building the current Educare premises. “Doctors Rooms On Kloof “now occupy the space that had previously been […]
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