Original Shrine Category

fma. September 18th, a Sunday, Covenant day, thirty-five Covenant Days before October 18, 2014 - The worldwide Schoenstatt Family will celebrate the Covenant of Love among themselves with the Virgin Mother in their shrines, wayside shrine, chapels, or home shrines. And on this day, everyone will unite with Schoenstatt, with the Original Shrine. It is almost a year that everyone has been on pilgrimage toward the jubilee of the Covenant. In the morning of this Covenant Day, Father Jonathan Niehaus from the United States will celebrate theRead More
Agathe Hug. "Is the truth what the majority affirms? Or not?" Whoever decides for the second option will certainly feel much identified with Father Franz Reinisch. The anniversary of his death is recalled every year on August 21st. The outer framework: a simple act of commemoration at the Pallotine Pilgrims' Church in Schoenstatt, a brief homily by a Pallotine priest, or a Schoenstatt priest - this year it was Father Peter Locher, a Schoenstatt Father - a prayer, a pilgrimage to his tomb behind the Original ShineRead More
Fr. Michael Savage. In July, a special celebration took place on Mount Moriah. A group of Schoenstatt priests from Burundi made their final contract with the community and brought a bit of African Sunshine to Northern Europe.        Read More
mkf. According to Fr Franz Heister, a friend since his youth, it was a jubilee celebration that exactly suited Rector Egon Zillekens and the "colourful network of relationships" surrounding him. In his feastday sermon Fr Heister described this network as: easy-going yet deep, spontaneous yet reflected, refreshingly spontaneous despite good preparation, profoundly religious and profoundly human, amicably close, honest and not without that humour that distinguishes every genuine disciple of Jesus (and Kentenich) from the "sad saints"...  Read More
Michaellis Bouwer. "I had never participated in a Holy Mass at the Women's Federation Shrine," commented a Schoenstatter, who, while searching for a video on www.schoenstatt-tv mediatech, 'accidentally' found the transmission of Holy Mass that was celebrated there on the afternoon of July 10th. Thanks to the Internet and www. schoenstatt-tv, he was not the only one who had this experience for the first time. In this beautifully prepared Holy Mass that was celebrated in several languages, the Schoenstatt Women's Federation invited the entire world to enterRead More
mkf. The torch of Jubilee 2014 - one of the one hundred torches lighted in the opening of the triennium toward 2014 on October 17, 2010, is burning in Panama. On his fist visit to the Original Shrine at the beginning of May, Father Rómulo Aguilar, along with pilgrims from Panama, joined the large pilgrimage toward the centenary of the Covenant of Love on behalf of the Schoenstatt Family from his country.    Read More
mkf. On March 26th, Father Ángel Strada celebrated his 40th Anniversary of Priesthood at the Fathers' house on Mount Zion with a Holy Mass followed by a luncheon; he was surrounded by his brothers, his Spanish-speaking family groups, along with many co-workers and friends.      Read More
mkf. Father James Phalan CSC, Director of Family Rosary International, visited Schoenstatt at the end of March, met Sr. M. Margarite, and members of the General Direction of the Schoenstatt Institute of Families, and concelebrated Mass in the Families' Shrine. "More than anything, I wanted to offer the campaign to Our Lady and to place it in her care at Schoenstatt. I'm glad we could pray together!" he wrote several days later. The campaign is the "Firm in Faith with Mary WYD Rosary Campaign" that aims to inspire people allRead More

Posted On 04.04.2011In Original Shrine

Dreams Made Reality

Agathe Hug. Will someone come or will no one of the invitees come? That weekend, and on that same day, there were so many other events in Schoenstatt! But this is exactly the opportunity. There are Schoenstatters from many countries present. There is a conference here, a workshop there, but, will they want to change the program of these events in order to participate in the Holy Mass at the House of the Covenant on March 19th at 11 AM?  Read More
mkf. February 18th, Covenant Day, was celebrated with much joy in the Original Shrine at Schoenstatt as it was allover the world - only 1337 18's until October 18, 2014! Every 18th not only takes us closer to the great jubilee of the Covenant of Love, but rather - in the current of the Shrine - to the Original Shrine and the moment not so far away when the cradle and the source of graces of all of our being and acting in the Covenant of Love will become aRead More