- 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
- Casa del Niño “María de Nazaret”, Villa Ballester, Argentina
- “I was… ill and you cared for me…” (Mt. 25:36)
- Providencia – educating for life
- 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
- The Valley – around the Original Shrine
- 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
- Mount Schoenstatt
- Mount Sion and Mount Moriah
- Mount Regina,Mount Nazareth, Mount Mary
- Wayside Shrines: on the crossroads
- Virtual Retreat: Fr. Nicholas
- PK4U – A bust of Fr. Kentenich for the Home Shrine
- Fr. Kentenich short messages
Nigeria Tag
NIGERIA, Ijeoma Ugwu • Schoenstatt, a Catholic Apostolic Movement founded by Father Joseph Kentenich in Germany in 1914, has found a warm and enthusiastic welcome in Nigeria. One of the cornerstones of this spiritual movement is the Covenant of Love with the Blessed Mother in the Shrine, a commitment that has profoundly affected many people throughout Nigeria. — This Covenant is an act of faith that strengthens our attachment to Mary, reinforces our baptism and marriage, while fostering unity and a deep sense of purpose within families. The Schoenstatt FamilyRead More
NIGERIA, Fr. Jude Eze, ISch. • October 29, 2023, the closing day of the World Synod on Synodality, was a historic day at the Victory Shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt, Ibadan, Nigeria, as the first group of couples from the Lagos Schoenstatt Family sealed their Covenant of Love. This group of families came together from different parishes in Lagos through the instrumentality of Fr. Jude Eze, ISch, a Schoenstatt Father who works in a parish in the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, who accompanies the group. The Covenant of LoveRead More
NIGERIA, Maria Fischer • On Friday, August 5, while Pope Francis was praying the Stations of the Cross with thousands of young people in Lisbon, linking the sacrifice of Jesus for all of us to the wounds and frailties of young people today – A Via Crucis for the Frailties of Young People -, a young man in Nigeria was taken to the hospital. He is a priest, ordained just a year ago, who is eager to serve the Church in his country and is well prepared to work forRead More
NIGERIA, Maria Fischer, with AICA material • Fathers Chochos Kunav and Ralph Ogigba were kidnapped on Sunday 30th April while returning from a visit to St Francis Parish in Delta State, southern Nigeria. Update May 5: We just got the confirmation that both priests were set free! — Two Catholic priests have been kidnapped in Delta State, southern Nigeria. They are Father Chochos Kunav, a member of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, and Father Ralph Ogigba, a member of the clergy of the Diocese of Warri, pastor ofRead More
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique • A week earlier, some Schoenstatt Fathers from the Father Region announced on social media that they were on their way to Florencio Varela, they had arrived after the summer conferences and missions, they were beginning the annual conference, and especially after the pandemic, they were all together again praying around Father’s Sion Shrine. Some traveled many kilometers from Paraguay, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, and from the different branches in Argentina. — On Sunday, February 19th, it was a joy to see 26 Schoenstatt Fathers celebrating the 29thRead More
NIGERIA, Fr. Pablo Pol / María Fischer • November 1st, the Feast of All Saints, was a very special day for the community of Schoenstatt Fathers in Nigeria. On the grounds of the future shrine in Ibeju Lekki, near Lagos, Nigeria, a wayside shrine was blessed and the foundations of the future house of the Schoenstatt Fathers were laid at this place. — Fr. Alexandre Awi, the new Superior General of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, who came to Africa for the first time, presided over the celebration,Read More
NIGERIA, Maria Fischer, with material from CEOAfricaNews • Over a long time, we did not hear from Schoenstatt in Nigeria… But now, on Twitter, there were photos and a story at CEONews, and it is about the priestly ordination of four Schoenstatt Fathers on Saturday, 26th June 2022. — The four newly ordained priests include: Revd. Emmanuel Emenike Okeke, Revd. Stanley Ikechukwu Ukasoanya, Revd. John Ojoche Obute and Revd. Cyprian Atin Avong. The ordination had Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, who also doubles as the permanent Observer of the Holy See toRead More
NIGERIA, Maria Fischer • Four seminarians of the Schoenstatt Fathers will be ordained deacons on Sunday, January 23, in Lagos, Nigeria, by Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos. — The ordination will take place in the parish entrusted to the pastoral care of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Lagos. Father Pablo Pol travelled to Nigeria some days ago to accompany the four seminarians and the entire community of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Nigeria. Emmanuel Emenike Okeke, John Ojoche Obute, Stanlez Iketchkwu Ukasanya, and Cyprian Atin Avong will be grateful for eachRead More
NIGERIA, Schoenstatt Fathers • The desire to have a Schoenstatt Family Branch in Nigeria has been an age long aspiration for the local community of the Schoenstatt Fathers. The dream became a reality on the 12th of May 2021, when a group of five couples came together to begin the first Schoenstatt Family League group. These couples were later joined by two more couples, bringing the total number to seven. — At this moment, the group is still at an introductory level. The intention is to build a close bondRead More
URBI ET ORBI 2021 • So many needs and society’s misery are knocking on our doors during these times, amid the hope that there can be a remedy or a solution. Is Schoenstatt acting within the context of these times in which we find ourselves? Or are many resources being channeled in a dualistic and narcissistic manner that overshadows everything, a process that certainly must also take place? […] Do we have solutions to the difficult social situations? Do we have answers that we can offer to the migratory movementRead More
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