Reflections, event reports and community news from the Schoenstatt Shrines at Mulgoa (NSW) and Mount Richon (WA) — 436 articles from across the Schoenstatt family in Australia.
Advent Journey – Sunday 27 November
19 Dec 2022
On the first Sunday of Advent we held an event ‘Advent Journey’ for young women. Meeting on the verandah of the Joseph Kentenich House at 10.30am, 5 participants as well as Sr Luisa Maria and I waited a little for the remaining participants to arrive…Read more ›
Covenant Day Message
19 Dec 2022
I wish you all many graces and blessings from the Shrine on this Covenant day, the 18th December, as we continue our journey through Advent and approach the wonderful season of Christmas.Read more ›
Formation Day for Women – Mt. Schoenstatt, Mulgoa
19 Dec 2022
Following a successful Formation Weekend for members of the Mothers Groups and the Single Women’s Group in August, it was agreed to have a further formation day before the end of the year. This was held on Saturday 19th November at Mt. Schoenstatt.Read more ›
Small Steps – Many Creative Resultants
19 Dec 2022
The concept ‘creative resultant’ was first coined by Fr. Kentenich himself in 1914 after giving an ‘in-chapel’ talk, at a meeting of the Marian Sodality (the boys). Father kept silent about the talk and waited for months to see a result.Read more ›
Women’s Advent Reflection Day
19 Dec 2022
A good number of women attended the Advent reflection day presented by Sr Mary Louise. A brief overview was given on how the focus of Advent has changed over the centuries.Read more ›
Celebrating Foundation Day across the States
18 Nov 2022
This year on Sunday 16th October, 2022 we celebrated the Foundation Day of Schoenstatt in our shrines across Australia. As an introduction into these celebrations we “listen” to an extract from the sermon that Fr. Pawel Barszczewski OP gave during the Foundation Day Mass…Read more ›
Covenant Day Message
18 Nov 2022
Greetings and blessings for this Covenant Day – 18th November. During this month we remember two significant dates in our Schoenstatt Family history. The first is November 16th – the anniversary of the birth of Father Kentenich (1885).Read more ›
Cultivating an interior life – personal discernment
18 Nov 2022
One focus from an October 2022 Pope Francis general audience was inspired by St Augustine and Book 10 from his ‘Confessions’. The books of Augustine’s Confessions speak about this fourth-century bishop’s spiritual conversion…Read more ›
Remembering Venerable Sr. M. Emilie
18 Nov 2022
On 20th November we remember Venerable Sister M. Emilie Engel, who died on this day in 1955. Sister M. Emilie came as a young woman to Schoenstatt where she met Father Kentenich.Read more ›
Renewal Crowning Anniversary of MTA in Rydalmere
18 Nov 2022
On Saturday 10th September 2022, exactly six years after the Schoenstatt Rydalmere family crowned the MTA, Mother of Mercy and Queen of the Family, they gathered once more to celebrate the anniversary of this Crowning.Read more ›
Two Daring Decisions
14 Oct 2022
A practical faith in Divine Providence is one of the messages of Schoenstatt along with the message of the Covenant of Love and mission consciousness. The following articles exemplify how Father Kentenich’s constant attention to the will of God in all things…Read more ›
“A crooked path made straight” (Lk 3:5,6)
14 Oct 2022
People who consider themselves ‘authentic witnesses to God’s will in their lives’ and desire to help pass this on to others so they can follow a straight path, often find the truth of the matter is that the Holy Spirit actually does not work singly along a straight path…Read more ›