Schoenstatters Category

org. "Fr Boll was one of the members of the community of Schoenstatt Fathers who set his stamp on its founding phase. The International Schoenstatt Movement counts him among the most outstanding interpreters of Fr Kentenich and his God-given charism", says theRead More
Heinrich Brehm/mda.On 16 July 2014, the feast of our Lady of Mount Carmel, Fr Günter Maria Boll, a Schoenstatt Father, died after a long illness. A number of his confreres were with him. In order to ensure the professional support made necessary by his increasing frailty, he had been cared for since the beginning of 2014 by the Brothers of Mercy in Horbach, near Montabaur. The Requiem for Fr Günther Boll will be held in the Adoration Church on Mount Schoenstatt on Saturday, 19/07/2014, at 3 PM local time (UTC+2).Read More
CHILE, mda. Who are the people who will carry Schoenstatt into its second century? They are men and women, young and old, Europeans and Africans, priests and lay people, those who have always belonged to Schoenstatt and those who have recently discovered it. They are missionaries, prophets, pastors, fathers, visionaries, builders, guardians, and conquerors. They are people with unique stories, with their wounds and moments of glory, with covenant stories that are worth relating. People like Rolando Cori, who was interviewed by schoenstatt.org. He was baptized in Bellavista. He composedRead More
Dr. Alicja Kostka. We met in the Ermland, north-eastern Prussia, Joseph Engling's home. Mr Lambert Schroedter (*1.12.1958 in Rastatt, +11.6.2014 in Bonn) accompanied Mr Kanzler, at that time, as now, the Superior General of the Institute of Brothers of Mary, who had come to prepare for a large group to visit Prositten from Schoenstatt for the hundredth birthday of Joseph Engling in 1998. A Brother of Mary who spoke Polish ... a rarity. "Will we ever meet another like him?" a woman asked when she heard of his death onRead More
GERMANY, fma. On account of his long name he was simply called "OB" or "Obi": Fr Ludwig Obereisenbuchner, an old hand in Schoenstatt in the Diocese of Augsburg and the Schoenstatt Centre in Memholz, was called to his eternal home with the Father. His funeral took place on 28 March at 2 p.m. in Martinzell, his last parish. Fr Obereisenbuchner was a member of the Schoenstatt Diocesan Family Council in the 1960s. It was a time when the Schoenstatt Family surrendered itself completely to the Blessed Mother in the covenantRead More
CHILE/BRAZIL, mda. Felipe Poblete, from the Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement in Maipú, Santiago de Chile, and Marcos Rodrigues from Brazil have started their journey in the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Brothers of Mary for the Latin-American province.  Read More
PORTUGAL, Lena Castro Valente. On January 13th at 5:30 p.m. (local time in Recifie, Brazil) our beloved Fr. Miguel Lencastre, a Portuguese Schoenstatt Father, departed for his new home at the age of 84.  Read More
BRAZIL, mda. Fr Miguel Lencastre (84) of the Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers died on the afternoon of 13 January. He had spent a month in hospital in Recife in northeast Brazil. In the evening of 13 January his body was taken to the shrine of the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt in Olinda near Recife.Read More
CHILE, mda. The testimony about Mario Hiriart by Claudio Gelmi, Social Responsibility Director of the Engineering School,(the same school where Mario Hiriart studied and taught, and where many members of Schoenstatt have left a mark of professional commitment from the Covenant of Love) was a pleasant surprise; it was one of the many surprises during 2013.Read More
ARGENTINA, mda. At dawn on November 27th, at 3:55 a. m., the mercy of God called Sister Ursula Klein to the Father's House. She was ninety-nine years old, just like her Schoenstatt, which she loved so much and with which she wanted to celebrate her one hundredth birthday in this Jubilee Year. She accompanied the international preparation for the Jubilee of the Covenant of Love with great interest and surely, she continues to accompany it.Read More