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Going God’s way with joy and fun

The Schoenstatt Boys’ Youth is a community of boys, youth, and young men ages nine to thirty. In groups they have the opportunity to spend their free time with their peers. This includes camps, but also trips, local group meetings and excursions where the Christian faith is lived and experienced together.

The Boys’ Youth belongs to the Schoenstatt Movement and goes back to its foundation in 1914.

As a community of life, the youth and young men seek to stand with both feet on the ground and at the same time be turned toward God. The development of individual personalities who are at home in the love of God is just as much a focus as the shaping of everyday life. They look for ideals for shaping their lives and for a journey with God.

Of course, games, enjoyment, and adventure are not neglected.


Contact Information

Schönstatt-Institut Marienbrüder e.V.
SMJ Sekretariat
Am Marienberg 4
56179 Vallendar

Link: smj-deutschland.de


The Image of the Man and Father

The Schoenstatt Men’s League is an independent diocesan association of married and unmarried men within the movement.

In a world that has become confusing, people today – despite all technical progress and prosperity – are seeking for the meaning of life anew. Men also long for a deeper fulfillment of life, for personal relationships, for love, and for knowing that they are loved, which is ultimately the gift of God who carries everything. This is why the Schoenstatt Men’s League endeavors to deepen its own religious life. Proceeding from God’s call, it is also a matter of recognizing more clearly the personal task of life as a co-creator of a more human world and of embodying it in everyday life as men and fathers in family and work, in society, economy and politics as well as in the life of the Church. In this effort, the men are inspired, formed, and strengthened by the rich, future-oriented spirituality of Schoenstatt. They live from the experience that according to God’s plan of salvation Mary is and will be decisively involved in once again leading people today to Christ and to a spirit-filled faith in his and our Father.

Each group of the Men’s League is largely independent. It maintains contact with other groups and receives support from the Schoenstatt headquarters. Within the groups, the men exchange experiences and pray together. A family-like get-together is part of it. The outlined goal points to preferred topics: From God’s point of view, what does the image of the man and father look like and how do you put it into practice in life? In order to be able to live a Christian life today, it is very helpful to experience support in the circle of friends of a group, a community of solidarity, and to receive constructive encouragement.


Contact Information

Schoenstatt Männerliga
Höhrer Straße 80a
56179 Vallendar

Link: schoenstatt-maennerliga.de

Follow Christ with Mary

Bound to God, Marian, undemanding, available, in the middle of the world – this is how the Brothers of Mary, a secular institute of men who understand themselves as following Christ like Mary, through their professional work. In 1942 Father Josef Kentenich founded the community together with the Austrian politician Dr. Eduard Pesendorfer in the Dachau concentration camp.

As engineers, pedagogues, care service managers, artists, craftsmen, lawyers…, the Brothers of Mary see themselves challenged to connect the earth with heaven. They face these challenges, for example:

In the language institute Kreutzberg Bonn (Germany), in the youth center Marienberg (Germany), in the youth and man work (Germany, Burundi, Latin America), in the IT-Start-Up (Burundi), in the wholesale and retail trade (Brazil), in the Josef Kentenich School (Germany), as an entrepreneur (Chile), as a lawyer (Paraguay),

“It is my appointed task to meet you here to carry out the foundation of the Brothers of Mary, which I have long wanted to found.” – Father Kentenich


Contact Information

Schönstatt-Institut Marienbrüder
Höhrer Straße 80a
D – 56179 Vallendar

Telephone: (0049) 0261 / 6508-0
Email: institut-marienbrueder@schoenstatt.net
Links:

  • https://www.schoenstatt-marienbrueder.de/de/
  • https://www.kreuzberg-bonn.de/deutschkurs-angebot/
  • http://www.jugendzentrum-marienberg.de/
  • https://www.smj-deutschland.de/
  • http://www.kirasystem.com/
  • https://de-de.facebook.com/pravidars/
  • https://www.josef-kentenich-schule.de/
  • http://www.hydroscada.cl/empresa/movie
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSdfywlri7E

Shaping the Earth – Living in Daily Life Out of Faith!

The Schoenstatt Men’s Federation is a life-long lay community of married and single men. The way of life of the federation of communities was initiated in Hoerde (Dortmund; Germany) in 1919. From that arose the Schoenstatt Men’s Federation.

As a federation community, the members are called to engage as leading personalities in the service of the Schoenstatt Family and the Church, for the evangelization of society and the world. Everyone remains in his usual everyday life with his family and profession, but his personal engagement in profession, Church, parish, is in service of Schoenstatt ideals.

The central elements of the community are the religious, communal, and apostolic character of its members. The calling to the Men’s Federation includes the endeavour to be children of God and to be true fathers in the family as well as to people in everyday life. The spirit of the times and the changing life situations are constantly pondered, and answers are sought in the pronouncements of the Church and the educational norms of our father and founder.

The members of the Men’s Federation, by joining, constitute a community for life, which is referred to as a course. They remain in a lively contact with each other through regional groups that meet monthly.

There are currently Men’s Federations in Germany, Switzerland, Chile, and Argentina.


Contact Information

Schönstatt-Männerbund
Sekretariat
Gilgenborn 68
56179 Vallendar

Email: joachim.a.konrad@gmx.de