family week Tag

AUSTRIA, Martin Schiffl • In order to maintain a high quality for the Austrian Family Weeks (family plus holidays), the speakers meet annually for a multi-day workshop in Schoenstatt at Kahlenberg on the outskirts of Vienna. — This year’s workshop subjects were: How to discern our own longings and challenges How to stay in the Schoenstatt life-stream The spiritual atmosphere during the family weeks Training in Fr. Kentenich’s rhetoric What moves the participants during Family Weeks? Schoenstatt Family Plus Holidays have been the Austrian Schoenstatt Movement’s “core business” for decades.Read More
ENGLAND, Clare Lyddieth-Barnes • Preparing for this year’s family week was similar, in many ways, to preparing for any other family week, especially one in the U.K: pack 13 outfits for each child, shorts and sandals as well as cardigans and jumpers, potential fancy dress outfits plus concert costumes, buckets and spades alongside wellies [rubber boots] and waterproofs [raincoats], 70 nappies[diapers] and a pram[baby carriage] with a rain cover. My full packing list would probably take up the whole magazine and, while Patty is eager for articles, I don’t thinkRead More