Marriage and Family

Place: Marian School, Schoenstatt (in connection with the Family Shrine and the Family House on Mount Nazareth)


Our central message: Be happy with family life and your calling as a couple to contribute towards the renewal of Church and society.

Our task as the Schoenstatt Family Movement: "... is to realize family morality which has been laid down in the encyclicals by the popes, to work out a useful family ascetic and pedagogy, to care for and pass on good family customs and in this way become a reservoir for all branches of the Schoenstatt Movement, to feed them and renew them.”

J. Kentenich, 1948

 

Logo: Wedding rings surrounded by the outline of a house which remind us of the source of our Christian marriage and family life: the sacrament of marriage, the covenant of love, the home shrine.

Letter from Santa Maria, 1948, the "founding document" for all family branches

 

Presentation of international projects / meet and greet / connect:

  • To grow together (e.g. seminar on marriage preparation, family weeks/weekends)
  • Discover God (Marriage and family spirituality)
  • To live in community (e.g. Home shrine network)
  • Build on your expertise (e.g. Family academy)
  • How to carry the mission into our Church and society (e.g. Family Mission, Home for families)


You will find family life in our covenant tent:

  • Father Kentenich welcomes you, various workshops on our family projects throughout the world, expert round table, presentation: „Father Kentenich and his families”, interactive zones (couple check, “You have made me so happy” …), coffee corner, programme for children etc.

 

Panel Discussions

Panel I

Being human through attachment

Panel II

Personal bioethics

Panel III

Ecumenical initiatives for the family

 

Contact:

Josef and Rosa Maria Wieland

familia@schoenstatt2014.org