- Covenant Life
- Reaching out
- Shrine
- Church – Francis
- Kentenich
- Reflection
- Projects
- Family
- Family Missions
- Ministry of Hope, Paraguay – Reaching out to Divorced couples in new relationship
- Marriage Strengthening (Fortalecimiento Matrimonial)
- Fortalecimiento Matrimonial – Costa Rica
- Blessing for Moms and Dads – Germany
- Basic Education Course for Parents
- Home Delivery Dialogues
- FAB – Family as Vocation – Austria
- The Matrimonial Route, Hungary
- Father Joseph Kentenich Bioethics Commission, Argentina
- Academy for Marriage and Family, Germany
- Academy for Family Pedagogy – Schönstatt auf´m Berg, Germany
- Family…is Sacred, Brazil
- Take Mother Home – Brazil
- Youth
- Pedagogy
- Church
- New social order
- Bicentenary Pact – Argentina
- “I was… ill and you cared for me…” (Mt. 25:36)
- Providencia – educating for life
- Casa del Niño “María de Nazaret”, Villa Ballester, Argentina
- Dequeni: support education as a means to a safer and better country.
- Soya Solidarity Campaign, Argentina
- Mary’s Volunteers, Argentina
- Home of Mary – a Home for mentally handicapped children and youth in Mar del Plata, Argentina
- Maria Arafasha, Burundi
- White Moustaches – Paraguay
- Casa del Niño Padre José Kentenich – Father Joseph Kentenich Day Care Center -, Argentina
- María Ayuda, Chile
- Niño Jesús Nutrition Center, Dominican Republic
- Mercy House, An Apostolic Project from Schoenstatt for Africa’s Refugees
- IKAF –International Kentenich Academy for Leaders
- Project ENCUENTRO, Spain
- Family
- Service
- A Visit to Schoenstatt – the Valley and the Mountains
- Souvenirs and Shopping
- About Schoenstatt
- A Movement within the Catholic Church
- The Covenant of Love
- A Shrine with a Movement – A Place of Pilgrimage
- Getting closer to the Shrine
- Schoenstatt, a popular Movement of Pilgrims
- The Founding Document – October 18, 1914
- Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt
- Father Joseph Kentenich – the founder
- The Shrine and its symbols
- The pilgrimage graces
- The Grace of a Home
- The Grace of Inner Transformation
- The Grace of Apostolic fruitfulness
- The message of Schoenstatt
- The Capital of Grace
- The 18th of each month – Covenant Day
- The Founder: Fr. Joseph Kentenich
- The Mother Thrice Admirable (MTA) – Schoenstatt’s picture of grace
- The Unity Cross in Schoenstatt
- Schoenstatt Heroes
- The Pilgrim Mother Campaign
- Missions
- Love for the Church
- A Movement of Education
- Historical Panorama of Schoenstatt: From the Little Chapel to the Confines of the Earth
- An International Family
- A Federal Movement
- Jubilee Pilgrimage 2014
- Map of the Shrines
- Sights in Koblenz and Sorrounding
- Expositions about Schönstatt and more
- Wayside Shrines: on the crossroads
- Virtual Retreat: Fr. Nicholas
- PK4U – A bust of Fr. Kentenich for the Home Shrine
- Fr. Kentenich short messages
Africa Tag
UGANDA, Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa • The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement in Uganda, at Nakivale parish, Diocese of Mbarara, welcomed new members in a beautiful celebration on Sunday, July 16. The parish is part of the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda, one of the biggest in Africa. Schoenstatt began here a couple of years ago when Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa, a Schoenstatt member from Burundi, arrived here as refugee. — Most refugees in the settlement are Congolese although the population is heterogeneous with many cultures and groups from different nationalities: Burundi,Read More
UGANDA, Maria Fischer • The first real life covenant day photos of this August 18, 2022 reached me short after starting my work, and they came from Uganda, exactly from the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, the 8th largest refugee camp in the world, hosting 119,587 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea. One of them is Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa, from Burundi. Since he came there, he works to spread Schoenstatt, with one Pilgrim Mother and the great missionary zeal in his heart. — Uganda isRead More
WORLD CLIMATE SUMMIT, Ulrich Grauert / Maria Fischer • Tuesday 9, 2021, Swiss Interholco AG has organized a side-event in Glasgow at the World Climate Summit with the intention to demonstrate the synergy between the Congolese state and private sector (FSC-certified timber industry) aimed at effectively maintaining a forest area whose inhabitants and biodiversity are sensitive to climate change. Interholco CEO Ulrich Grauert, Schoenstatt member and Founder of IKAF (International Kentenich Academy for entrepreneurs and leaders), shares his presentation with the users of schoenstatt.org. — In the context of WorldRead More
UGANDA, Maria Fischer with Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa • It is 70 km from Nakivale parish in the largest African refugee camp, where Burundian refugee Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa, lives, to the post office in Mbarara and the post box of the Catholic parish of Mbarara, which he can use to receive parcels. Due to corona, there is no taxi and no public transportation system. But Jean de Dieu urgently wanted to go to Mbarara to pick up the parcel that had arrived from Schoenstatt… — So, he took hisRead More
UGANDA, Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa • The Pilgrim mother Nr. 58 of the modality of “Founding” arrived in Uganda, arrived in Uganda on the 15th august, 2019. This picture of the Pilgrim Mother blessed on 21st may, 2016 in the national shrine of Argentina, is the only one present in Uganda. — The first and only Pilgrim Mother in Uganda, is working in the Nakivale Parish in the district of Isingiro – Africa`s oldest refugee camp. From here, the coordinator and missionary, a refugee from Burundi, asked the staffRead More
BURUNDI, Maria Fischer with Material from https://www.peres-schoenstatt.org • July 18, 2020, Covenant Day, in front of the Shrine of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Switzerland. A breathtaking view of Lake Lucerne. But we are talking about Africa, because we are standing here with two Swiss Africa veterans, Father Zingg and Father Barmettler, and we share their joy at the ordination of three Schoenstatt Fathers on this day, in Burundi. And they recount to us…— The Schoenstatt Family and the pilgrims who belong to the Shrine of Mount Sion Gikungu in Bujumbura hadRead More
Interview with Ulrich Grauert, Switzerland, on Economy of Francesco • “I am one of the 2000 young people who were selected for The Economy of Francesco in Assisi,” Valentina Alarcón, an engineer from Chile, wrote to me in the chat of a video conference on social justice and the new social order, which was organized by a group of Chilean Schoenstatters motivated by the social thought of Joseph Kentenich. “We have to talk about this specifically”, I write back, “I know someone from Switzerland who is also present. I referRead More
BURUNDI, Sr. M. Françoise Nimubona, Claudine Niyomwungere • The Schoenstatt Shrine in Bujumbura became an attraction for many groups of pilgrims from all over the country, especially on the 15th of August, which is not a legal holiday in Burundi, but is of great importance for the Catholic Church there. It is located on a slope above the capital Bujumbura (built on the site where Pope John Paul II celebrated Holy Mass during his visit to Burundi in front of thousands of faithful) and is the destination of the processionsRead More
POPE FRANCIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel • Pope Francis is visiting Southern Africa between 4 and 10 September. He began in Mozambique where he celebrated Mass at a packed Zimpeto Stadium in Maputo. He now travels on to Madagascar and Mauritius where he will meet with religious, civil leaders and the Christian faithful, especially the youth. — In his homily on Friday morning, 6 September at a large Mass in Maputo, Pope Francis said that love is the only way to lasting peace. He was speaking to a nationRead More
KENYA, Fr. Reinhard Förster • When I arrived at the Schoenstatt “Center,” everything was already decorated festively: flags and garlands, a tent was erected, and many people in festive clothes were on their way. Almost 200 guests came. Mass was celebrated with a dance group and a choir. All sang along enthusiastically. This is where 25 years of Schoenstatt in Kenya is celebrated, and on this day 40 years ago the first Schoenstatter of the country was ordained to be a priest, Father Dr. Joseph Kariuki Kamau. After the festiveRead More
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- Address of the Holy Father Francis at the “Clinton Global Initiative 2023” [New York, 18-19 September 2023] (18 September 2023)
- Audience with employees of the Vatican Pharmacy, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its founding (18 September 2023)
- To participants in the meetings organized by the Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus and the Daughters of Divine Zeal (18 September 2023)
- World Integrative Medicine Congress putting person at centre
- Lessons from Pope John: Vatican hosts conference on Pacem in Terris
- International Union of Superiors General gets new president, vice-president
- Tense ceasefire after Nagorno-Karabakh clashes kill dozens
- Sisters of Charity serving people in need on Solomon Islands
- Investigation into abuse allegations against Bishop Saunders continues
- African and European youth to hold global Building Bridges conversation
- New book on synodality presents Church leaders' insights in the wake of Vatican II