Schoenstatt Lamar, TX, USA – SCHOENSTATT A PLACE, A SPIRITUALITY, A MOVEMENT, A RETREAT AND PILGRIMAGE CENTER

News – January 2021

Posted on January 26, 2021

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Covenant Renewal – January 18, 2021

Posted on January 17, 2021

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No Holy Mass on the 18th of the Month

Posted on January 15, 2021

Because of the COVID-19 regulations, we are currently not having the Covenant Holy Mass on the 18th of the month in our Confidentia Shrine.

The Shrine is open everyday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Masks are required in order to come in.

Our store is open on the following days and hours:

Tuesday through Sunday

10:30 am – 12:00 noon
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Questions?? Please contact us at (361) 729-2019

We encountered the Blessed Mother in 1996, through some homeschooling friends of ours. However, unbeknownst to us, Schoenstatt really entered our lives a few years before. We were experiencing difficulties in our extended family, and after sharing our concerns with a dear friend, we had been given the Schoenstatt novena to Our Mother Thrice Admirable, without knowing anything of the Schoenstatt Movement. We experienced so many miracles through her intercession, that when we did meet the Schoenstatt Movement through our friends, we were very open and ready to make our covenant of love, with open hearts for the home shrine a year later!

It seems that God’s plans are so perfectly put together. Looking back, we can see how our dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (which we had made with the help of the Schoenstatt Family and the Sisters of Charity) had also prepared a place in our home and in our hearts for all the gifts that God wished to share with our young family. It was as if Jesus said: Here I am, and I bring along my Mother to help you.

As the journey began, and as we were so open to inviting Jesus and his Blessed Mother into our homes and our lives, we truly did not realize the great powerful gifts we were given. But a different world unfolded day by day in our little home and in our hearts. She became more and more present in our daily lives and we now cannot imagine life without her, here in our Cana Home Shrine. We grew up in the Shadow of the Cana Home Shrine, all decisions and all-important family discussions took place here, as well as daily prayers and family routines. Annual liturgical practices were celebrated here. Decorations to match the change of the liturgical seasons were acquired – rituals for Lent, Easter, All Saints, First Communions, Confirmations, May Crowning, Graduations, sending off of children with blessings, important decisions, petitions, thanksgivings, simply daily greetings – all took place in our Cana Home Shrine. Through our MTA’s intercession, her request to our Lord They have no wine we entered into that first miracle each time. She wishes to accompany us in our marriage and family journey and for that we are so ever grateful for our Blessed Mother.

We have seen many miracles in our children, in our lives, and in the lives of those who come to our home and present their hearts to her here. She is real and she has the heart of a very tender loving mother, and she wants to help all her children, all the children of God, so that we may join her forever in his heavenly kingdom. Do not be afraid to experience Our Mother!! What a blessing she is to us all.

With heartfelt love, we thank you Mother dear, with you to guide us we need have no fear, when all around seemed dark and drear and gray, you stood as beacon for a brighter day. Your smile illumined every wakeful hour, you did uphold us with your gentle power. Thanks, a thousand thanks to you, to God shall be now and for all eternity. Amen.

Lisa and Mike Arth, Apostolic Family Federation, Southlake, TX

Lead from the Shrine… Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Posted on January 15, 2021

The name of our home shrine was chosen after much thought. There is, it seems to us, a lack of purity and an absence of belief in God in the world. Faith is a gift – one that the Blessed Mother wants to offer us through her immaculate presence in our home. This gift then becomes, through us, part of our hearts, our home, and our church community. From there it spreads into the whole world.

Our home shrine was dedicated during the Marian Year on October 3, 1987. It is a refuge. Here we experience the presence of the Triune God, the Blessed Mother, Saint Joseph, and the Angels and Saints. In our home shrine we strive to cooperate with God in becoming one with him according to his holy will. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is thereby victorious through us and in us.

In our Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Home Shrine we:

Encounter the mission, vision, and charisma of our founder, Father Joseph Kentenich.
Receive the graces of the Original Shrine and the graces connected to the mission of our home shrine.
Are united with all the daughter and home shrines around the world.
Gather personally and spiritually with the Schoenstatt Family.
Welcome other people to come and enjoy the peace and graces that the Blessed Mother gives to her children who open their hearts.
Evangelize with our devotions, talks, and visits.

Sanjuana and Guadalupe Serrano, Women’s League, Laredo, TX

January 15, 2021

Posted on January 15, 2021

Greetings from the Confidentia Shrine and a Happy New Year!

A small delegation of Sisters and Federation Couples rang in the New Year 2021 in the Confidentia Shrine. After a time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, we thanked for all the blessings received during the old year and placed ourselves anew at the disposal of our covenant partner for what lies ahead in 2021. While we sang ‘O Triune God’ the shrine bell announced the new calendar year.

Meanwhile, the first half of the first month of 2021 is behind us. Some of us may have already received the vaccine or are expecting their turn soon. By definition, a vaccine is a substance used to stimulate a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. While all of us wait, long, and hope to become immune to COVID-19 and its possible mutations soon, as Christians we should also ponder the vaccines that make us immune to the spiritual diseases and battles of our time.

What keeps us spiritually alert and tranquil during the turbulent times we experience in our nation and Church at present? Perhaps it may be a good exercise for all of us to get a new shot with the vaccines Christ entrusted to Catholic Church. These vaccines are above all, the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. In Schoenstatt we treasure the vaccine of our covenant of love and the cosmos of shrines which provide us with spiritual health. Please check this month’s feature on two home shrines.

Praying for you and yours in the Confidentia Shrine,

Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary