NOVENA – October 18 – Day 7
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 15, is the seventh day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
NOVENA – October 18 – Day 6
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 14, is the sixth day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
Bienvenue à Cambrai – Welcome to Cambrai
The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary are establishing themselves once again next to the Unity Shrine in Cambrai, France. Sister M. Resia Käppeler and Sister Mirjam Metzler have been there since October 4, 2023.
NOVENA – October 18 – Day 5
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 13, is the fifth day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
Ordination to the priesthood and two new deacons for Schoenstatt and the Church
“O God, holy are your ways”. Priestly ordination of Deacon Joaquín Puertas Casasempere (Chilean) and the diaconal ordination of the students Maike Nonicio de Andrade (Brazilian) and Agustín Ozcoidi (Argentinean), all belonging to the Course Cor Sacerdotalis, peregrini foederis ecllesiae, from the Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers.
NOVENA – October 18 – Day 4
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 12, is the fourth day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
Invitation: Renew your Home Shrine
The Family Institute is offering a special opportunity for all those who have established a Home Shrine and also for those who are preparing their blessing. On November 18th there will be an online event to “renew your Home Shrine”.
NOVENA – October 18 – Day 3
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 11, is the third day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
NOVENA – October 18 – Day 2
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 10, we are on the second day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
NOVENA – October 18th – Day 1
The novena begins today, the 9th, in the Original Schoenstatt Shrine, and will be broadcast live. You are invited to take part. Download the prayers here to follow along or to pray at home.
João Pozzobon and praying the Rosary
Slowly and organically, the servant of God João Luis Pozzobon kept increasing his daily prayers. He eventually prayed 15 rosaries a day. He did this while walking with the Pilgrim Mother and also while doing his household chores. For example, he would put marks on the handle of his hoe to pray while weeding. According to him, when you love someone very much, you usually repeat their name. And John tried to say it as many times as he could: Ave Maria….
Pope Francis publishes Apostolic Exhortation “Laudate Deum”
Pope Francis has published an Apostolic Exhortation building on his 2015 encyclical. We’re not reacting enough, he says, we’re close to breaking point. And he describes how care for our common home flows from the Christian faith.