Each of us is marked by the place where we were born and grew up. The family, the neighbors, our neighborhood… each element that comprises our childhood days contributes to forge who we are. On Father Joseph Kentenich’s birthday, we take a look at the places that marked the birth and life of Schoenstatt’s Founder. At the same time, we want to invite you to reflect on your origins and to encounter God’s love in your personal history.

In the world there are 17 Secretariats dedicated to the Cause of Father Kentenich’s Beatification. With their own particularities, they work together with the Central Secretariat, which has its headquarters in Germany.

Interview with Sister M. Eileen Johannsen, who witnessed Father Kentenich’s time in Milwaukee.
On January 23, 2023, the day of her 86th birthday, Sister M. Eileen arrived at Schoenstatt. Since then, she has traveled to various places in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland, talking about her encounters and experiences with Father Kentenich. Before returning to the USA on March 18, we asked her a few questions.

About 30 Schoenstatters visited the concentration camp of Dachau, where Father Kentenich was imprisoned by the Nazis for more than three years. It is in that hell that he wrote the Home Song, a poem to the wonders of Paradise, which we are called to create here on Earth.