The Sunday of the Good Shepherd on White Sunday is celebrated in the Church as the World Day of Prayer for Religious Vocations. This year, for the 56th time during these days, from May 12 to 18, 2019, we held a week of prayer for vocations to the priesthood and to the consecrated life. In […]
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“SUN” “Sun-people, Sun-children, that is: Christians who constantly circle around the sun of Divine Love.” We want to be people “who themselves become little suns, … from whom a constant, uniquely joyful and bright atmosphere emanates, and in whose wake people feel at ease.”
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Fire of mission – testimony of hope! Holy Week is the most important week for us Catholics in Mexico. Since the year 2000, the Schoenstatt Youth in Mexico has spent this week in the remote areas of our country to bring the Gospel to the parishes. In everyday life, we want to see the face […]
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Some Vietnamese living in Germany had met “Linh thao”, a kind of silent day, in Belgium in 1991. Soon after, the first course took place. Through our contacts with Vietnam, I was able to invite them to the Schoenstatt Center Marienpfalz for the first time in 2011. At first it was only a course with […]
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Jubilee celebration of the Schoenstatt Shrine: Tabor of Freedom. The Blessed Mother gathered 8,000 children in her house. The Schoenstatt Shrine, Tabor of Freedom, in the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, in the State of Minas Gerais, celebrated its 16th anniversary on May 19th and it was a great celebration! Early in the morning, before 8:00 […]
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Shrine festival in Nittenau on 28 April 2019 – a family experience – “Perhaps it will spark!” This was the motto of this year’s shrine festival at the Schoenstatt Center Nittenau. Despite the “April weather,” the Schoenstatt Family of the Diocese of Regensburg arrived at the center late in the morning of April 28th to […]
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Solemn May Opening in Schoenstatt-Au Borken We Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary had invited people to join us in opening the month of May in the Schoenstatt-Au Borken. We were presented with a joyful and profound experience. “It was a joyful evening! The spontaneous impression of a pilgrim can only be confirmed by an equally moved […]
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A child of Mary never perishes! “Under his skilful hands a wooden light frame was formed, which he placed around the image of the Mother Thrice Admirable in the shrine.” … (Chronicle) In 1919, i.e. 100 years ago, Fritz Esser, with great joy in every free minute, made the first light frame around the picture […]
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Recently I was able to celebrate my Golden Jubilee as a Sister of Mary. In gratitude I look back. My decision at that time to join the community of the Sisters of Mary at the age of 21 was probably one of my best decisions. I have never regretted it. This also gave me the […]
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An impulse for the month of May The month of May in the Catholic Church, at least in the northern hemisphere, is traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Mother. In temperate climates, it is a month when new life blossoms all around us and springtime explodes in its splendor and beauty. Parishes, groups, families, and individuals […]
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