The Schoenstatt Movement commemorated the 55th anniversary of Father Joseph Kentenich’s death with two activities on September 14 and 15, 2023. ” Father Kentenich possessed a fatherly heart full of love, and a filial heart before God the Father,” said Father Eduardo Aguirre, postulator of the cause for the canonization of Father Kentenich.
“They choose Father Kentenich as a model for their own lives”, stated Sister M. Adele, at the end of the 30-year cycle in which she was responsible for Father Joseph Kentenich’s Secretariat. Sister Gisela-Maria Mues has now been given this assignment.
Fr. Eduardo Aguirre, postulator of the cause for the canonization of Fr. Joseph Kentenich, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, celebrated a Mass on September 15 in the Original Shrine of Schoenstatt, in Germany, where the movement was founded in 1914. The celebration took place 54 years after the death of the founder. The date coincided with the liturgical celebration of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Father Kentenich – publication of the summary written by Steven M. Biskupic with the conclusions of the investigation of alleged abuse.
Within the framework of its 2022 Annual Conference , on May 6, 2022, the Joseph Kentenich Institute (JKI) extended an invitation to a Workshop held at the guest quarters and conference center on Mount Moriah. Professor Dr. Joachim Söder, from the Catholic Faculty of Aachen, North Rhine, spoke about the status of the research work on the historical-critical edition of the so-called “Epistola Perlonga”. He has been working together with Professor Emeritus Dr. Manfred Gerwing, from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, for some months now on this edition.
“You are my letter of recommendation” (2 Cor 3:2)
Research needed on issues that cannot be resolved in beatification process
General Presidium of the International Schoenstatt Work:
Regarding the press release of the Diocese of Trier of May 3, 2022.
“Beatification process for Father Kentenich suspended.”
Bishop Ackermann encourages free research on Schoenstatt founder
A Place, a Movement, a Way of Life, a Mission
