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- Ministry of Hope, Paraguay – Reaching out to Divorced couples in new relationship
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- Fortalecimiento Matrimonial – Costa Rica
- Blessing for Moms and Dads – Germany
- Basic Education Course for Parents
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- FAB – Family as Vocation – Austria
- The Matrimonial Route, Hungary
- Father Joseph Kentenich Bioethics Commission, Argentina
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- Family…is Sacred, Brazil
- Take Mother Home – Brazil
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- Bicentenary Pact – Argentina
- Casa del Niño “María de Nazaret”, Villa Ballester, Argentina
- Providencia – educating for life
- “I was… ill and you cared for me…” (Mt. 25:36)
- 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
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- 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
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- A Movement of Education
- Historical Panorama of Schoenstatt: From the Little Chapel to the Confines of the Earth
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- Jubilee Pilgrimage 2014
- Map of the Shrines
- Mount Schoenstatt
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- Wayside Shrines: on the crossroads
- Virtual Retreat: Fr. Nicholas
- Fr. Kentenich short messages
- PK4U – A bust of Fr. Kentenich for the Home Shrine
Santa Cruz do Sul Tag
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher • On Sunday, June 18, a large number of faithful gathered in and around the shrine (or capela, chapel) of Santa Cruz do Sul for the Mass of renewal of the Covenant of Love and for a long-awaited moment: the enthronement and blessing of the statue of St. Michael by our ecclesial advisor, Fr. Leão Gomes da Silva. — Recall that the original shrine of Santa Cruz do Sul remained empty after the Sisters of Mary decided to abandon the shrine for which they were legally responsibleRead More
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher / Maria Fischer • “With the gift of the Spirit, Jesus wants to free the disciples from the fear that imprisons them in their homes, so that they can go out and become witnesses and proclaimers of the Gospel.” Thus, Pope Francis at the Regina Coeli on Pentecost 2023. Where there is fear, where the doors are closed, the Holy Spirit is absent. Despite much suffering and many a threat, the lay people of the first Schoenstatt Shrine in Santa Cruz do Sul never closed their doors,Read More
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher, Maria Fischer • “You gather what I am aiming at: I would like to make this place a place of pilgrimage, a place of grace for our house and for the whole German province, and perhaps even further afield. All those who come here to pray shall experience the glory of Mary and confess: “It is good for us to be here. Here we will build our tents, here our favorite place.” Words from the first Founding Document that we Schoenstatters know almost by heart. Words thatRead More
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher/ Maria Fischer • “And we finally arrived at 1977, the year of the construction and inauguration of the Shrine of Santa Cruz, the sixth shrine in Brazil, the diocesan shrine of this land. We began this year with new enthusiasm and great conviction that this would be the year marked by heaven for special graces to be worked in this land.” Father’s footsteps generate life. “Precisely three days before the 30th anniversary of the Founding Father’s visit to Santa Cruz, construction work began on the shrine. TheRead More
BRAZIL, Maria Fischer • “What builds and maintains a Schoenstatt Shrine? I answer: hearts in Covenant with the Blessed Mother. That is the raw material of a Schoenstatt Shrine, abundant in today’s Chapel, or rather, in the always Shrine.” — Comment made by Luis Ventorini to the article about life around the Shrine in Santa Cruz do Sul that was published a few days ago. Hearts in Covenant with the Blessed Mother gathered once again on the afternoon of Covenant Day, November 18, 2022, as has always happened before andRead More
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher • The activities of the Apostolic Movement, linked to the “Mother of God Chapel”, continue. Last 08/11/2022 we had the prayer of the Food Rosary; each participant brings non-perishable food that is later distributed to people in socially fragile conditions. — On the floor you can see the Rosary drawn, and on which the food that each participant brings is placed. After the Rosary, we gave part of what was collected to the Mãe de Deus day care center, which serves ninety-five children and operates next toRead More
PORTUGAL, Lena Castro Valente • Since last August there is a shrine (once a shrine, always a shrine) with a glass door and windows in Brazil. Since the old stained glass windows were removed, we can say that the current ones are simply made of glass. — To know what is happening in the life of the Schoenstatt Movement throughout the world is a necessity and a grace. To be able to feel the beating of the heart of the life that springs from the more than 200 shrines thatRead More
BRAZIL, Ruy Kaercher, Maria Fischer • For two years, since that overnight action in which the Sisters of Mary removed the altar and other elements from the Shrine of Santa Cruz do Sul, there have been about eight hundred mentions of this Shrine in the local press, including articles, press releases, letters to the editor, and statements by prominent citizens. This makes this shrine, of which only the walls and the great love of its pilgrims remain, the one with the greatest media attention worldwide. To all this, a fewRead More
BRAZIL, Maria Fischer • “What if we launched a large international campaign seeking contributions to the Capital of Grace to help our brothers and sisters in Santa Cruz do Sul to reconquer and rebuild their shrine? Let us create a great current of support and accompaniment for them and show them that there is also community in Schoenstatt. It is an idea…” An idea that Claudio Ardissone from Assunción suggested to his international team members at schoenstatt.org when he saw the pictures of the interior of the shrine, with itsRead More
BOLIVIA, Alexandra Kempff • Father Milton Sulzbacher lost his battle against covid-19 on February 1st. He was one of several priests who literally gave his life in this pandemic because he never stopped attending to the needs of our people. Father Milton was very dear to the Schoenstatt Family of Santa Cruz. — Father Milton was a priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Family; he was born in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 1975 and arrived in Santa Cruz in 2017 a few weeks after being ordained as a priest.Read More
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