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Below are a few helpful links. Click on the name to go to that webpage.

Year of the Mission

The heart of the jubilee, the 18th October, is the renewal of the covenant of love with our father and founder in the original shrine, united as a world wide, intercultural missionary family, ready and willing to be sent out anew.

With joy and humility the Schoenstatt Family will gather from every nation, community and generation to renew their covenant of love, “the essence of our family”, “the source of our fruitfulness and the concrete way in which we live and follow Christ.”This “Covenant of Love 2014” is missionary and international. It forms an international missionary family and creates a covenant culture around the shrines in nothing without you, nothing without us.

In “nothing without us” we bring our covenant gifts in gratitude for all the fruits Schoenstatt has produced over the last 100 years through its presence and its growth. We also do this as a sign of our willingness to leave our mark, our “Covenant 2014”, on a new Schoenstatt century. Our covenant gift is our commitment towards a covenant culture expressed in all the missionary apostolic projects within the strategic fields of the apostolate: marriage and family life, youth, pedagogy, Church, and society.

In “nothing without you” we await with great trust the “grace 2014” as a grace of family renewal in all its unity, a connected and missionary family.

Click here to learn more about Schoenstatt 2014.

The Pilgrimage of a Lifetime

Join us for these centennial celebrations with the International Schoenstatt family. We will renew the covenant of love in the original shrine and commit ourselves to be instruments in building a covenant culture. Receive new strength as we celebrate together with our worldwide family!

Click here to learn more and register for this celebration.

As local Schoenstatt movements pray and gather resources to build a replica Shrine, often a Wayside Shrine is created. In the case of San Antonio, we created the “Schoenstatt Fountain of Family Unity Wayside Shrine”

This small chapel centrally located in San Antonio at 302 Ave Maria Street. It has has been open daily for private prayer and meditation since its dedication in 1990 by Archbishop Patrick Flores. 

Pilgrims from throughout the city and beyond visit this holy, peaceful place of grace.  Here, as in all Marian shrines, one feels at home with the Mother of God who intercedes to Jesus for our intentions.  You are welcome to visit the Wayside Shrine any day of the week.  It is open daily from 9:00 AM to 8 PM. 

Eucharistic Adoration is held every first Tuesday of the month from 7:00 PM-9:00 PM. Jesus longs to be united with us in the most intimate way by being present to us in Eucharistic Adoration.  He waits for us to respond to His love.  We invite you to join our Schoenstatt family in our visit with Him for one or two hours on each first Tuesday.