Reflections, event reports and community news from the Schoenstatt Shrines at Mulgoa (NSW) and Mount Richon (WA) — 429 articles from across the Schoenstatt family in Australia.
Getting to know the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’
17 Apr 2023
As a catechist for the RCIA, I have found myself referring to the catechism more recently than ever before and I believe it’s because our elect and catechumens for a few years now have been predominantly schoolteachers.Read more ›
Covenant Day Message
17 Mar 2023
Wishing you many blessings for this Covenant Day – the 18th March. Although it doesn’t seem so long ago we were celebrating the season of Christmas, we are now in Lent and preparing for the great feast of Easter.Read more ›
Holy Week and Easter
17 Mar 2023
At the beginning of April, we will celebrate Holy Week with the Good Friday ceremonies of the Lord’s Passion (7th April) and the celebration of the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday (9th April)Read more ›
The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord – 25th March
17 Mar 2023
What word makes God happiest? Our Lady’s answer to the Heavenly Father at the Annunciation must certainly be the word that makes God the happiest.Read more ›
Covenant Day Message
20 Feb 2023
Greetings and blessings on this Covenant Day – 18th February. Once again as a Schoenstatt Family we join together around our Blessed Mother and our father and founder, to renew our commitment to our covenant of love…Read more ›
The Rosary
20 Feb 2023
Recently my husband and I decided to attend the church which featured much in our children’s lives at school for celebrations, graduations and general school masses.Read more ›
A Mother’s Christmas overtones and reminder
17 Jan 2023
In the busy times of Christmas it is often hard for a mother/grandmother to find some time to fully live up to her ‘Personal Ideal’ and ‘Branch Ideal’.Read more ›
Covenant Day Message
17 Jan 2023
I welcome you to our first Covenant Day of 2023 – the 18th January. I hope you all had a very happy and holy Christmas and a good and safe start to the New Year.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 ›
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 ›
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 ›