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mev. For several days, a group of people wearing blue jackets with the 2014 Jubilee logo called attention to themselves in Schoenstatt. They were a pilgrimage of twenty-nine Chileans, who were touring Schoenstatt and Rome by closing the "Year of the Shrine Stream" with a golden clasp.      Read More
mev. On Saturday, September 22nd, the Family Celebration began with a Holy Mass at 11:00 a.m. on Mount Nazareth. This celebration is held every year around September 19th, the date that the blessing of the Shrine of Families is commemorated.      Read More
mev. On Monday, September 24th, the 100th Anniversary of Joseph Engling's arrival at Schoenstatt was commemorated. Approximately eighty people gathered at Marienau House in Schoenstatt to participate in an encounter and a talk about this young man, whom Father Kentenich called "The lived Founding Document."    Read More
mev. On Sunday, the 9th, the sending forth Holy Mass for the European Pilgrimage of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign was celebrated.  Many gathered once again in the early morning at the Pilgrims’ Church.  The newly crowned Queen waited for them beside the altar, and several people took the opportunity to approach and take a photo, to greet Her, or to kneel to pray.    Read More

Posted On 12.09.2012In Original Shrine

Parallel Worlds

Fr. David Musgrave. Do parallel worlds exist? Do parallel experiences co-exist? Yes! According to the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation and further brought to our awareness by our Founder at his final address to the Schoenstatt Movement at the Essen Katholikentag in 1968 drawing inspiration from the writings of Saint Don Bosco.    Read More

Posted On 08.09.2012In Original Shrine

A crown for a Queen

Fr. Andrew Pastore. It was Archbishop Rino Fisichella who brought the European Pilgrimage into a wider context on Saturday afternoon, September 8. The Archbishop, responsible for New Evangelisation, came to Schoenstatt to preside over the mass of crowning of the Pilgrim Mother as the Queen of Evangelisation.  Read More
Fr. Andrew Pastore. The European  pilgrimage of the Pilgrim Mother in Europe began yesterday, September 7,  in Schoenstatt. In the days running up to the event you could sense the transformation of our holy place - you could also see changes as places, around the adoration Church, the Pilgrim Church and the Original Shrine were prepared. You could hear busses going up and down the mountains and people chatting warmly in different languages.Read More
GERMANY, Heinrich Brehm/schoenstatt.de. When the ringing of the Shrines’ choir bells ended, the Original Shrine’s bell joined the chorus. The 500 youths, who felt attached to other youths throughout the world through this international ringing of bells, surrounded The Shrine.  After a moment of silence, they renewed their Covenant of Love with Mary united with the youths of the world. Nearly one hundred years ago in this same place, Father Kentenich and his students at the time sealed the Covenant for the first time.  This simple moment was the climaxRead More
Fr. Stefan Strecker. This weekend the Night of the Shrine will take place in Schoenstatt. Once again a few hundred young people will gather to celebrate and pray at the place where the Schoenstatt Movement started.      Read More
org. The first line of Father Franz Reinisch's death hymn reads: "You are the wonderful sign, full of light and sunshine." He was a Pallottine and Schoenstatt priest, apostle and if necessary lone fighter against the rest of the world. He wrote it in his prison cell to honor the Most Holy Virgin on the day of Saint Edith Stein's death and to condemn the dictatorship of National Socialism. Twelve days later, on August 21, 1942 he was decapitated with the Nazi guillotine at the Brandenburg-Görden prison.Read More