Schoenstatt Family Institute
Renewal of Marriage and Family
Our community
To be a new image of the Family of Nazareth
20+
COUNTRIES
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, USA
1942
FOUNDING
The community was founded by Father Kentenich on July 16 in the Dachau concentration camp, with the consecration of the first member, Dr. Friedrich Kühr
Inspiration
Becoming a family role model
Our founder saw this encounter as a message from God. He arrived at the conviction that the Catholic Church also needed such families. His answer to God’s call was the foundation of our community, with the aim that in the course of time it could become the core of the whole Family Movement, upholding it and giving it a soul.
He envisaged a community that would take as its task, the call to secure the ideal of Catholic marriage and family life and be a model of how to live this ideal in a timely way.
Innovation
The evangelical counsils applied to families
The Institute of Families is guided in this objective by the evangelical councils. The lifestyle of marriage and family is naturally different from the celibate lifestyle of the religious. The goal, however, is the same: to live one’s vocation with determination, following Christ completely.
Life’s vocation
The community defines itself as...
In this sense, “the Schoenstatt Family Institute, faithful to its Founder, is understood as a community of married couples of consecrated life with a juridical attachment. Through the grace of the sacrament and through the strength of the Covenant of Love with Mary, we live the evangelical counsels in the most perfect way possible, embodying the ideal of the Holy Family of Nazareth according to the current time” (Being and Mission – Definition of the General Chapter 2018).
On mission
The renewal of the world passes through the family
“Its mission is to collaborate in the construction of a new social order, through the Christian renewal of marriage and family. It assumes the responsibility of guarantor and inspiring nucleus of the entire Movement, together with the other Schoenstatt Institutes” (Being and Mission – Definition of the General Chapter 2018)
Worldwide
Worldwide expansion
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal
USA, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, México, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brasil
Contact
Our contacts in the world
Need more information?
Our contacts in the world
Haus der Familie (House of Families), Höhrer Strasse 115, Zip code 56179, Vallendar, Germany
+49 261 640 060
www.if-schoenstatt.org
contact@if-schoenstatt.org
