Secular Institute Women of Schoenstatt

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The Secular Institute Women of Schoenstatt , as a division of the Schoenstatt Movement, is a secular institute of the Catholic Church for women . The members live consecrated to God in the midst of the world according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, obedience and celibacy. In contrast to the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary , they do not live in house communities and as members of a secular institute do not wear traditional costumes. The community has around 300 women, mainly in Germany and neighboring Europe as well as in Latin America .

history

After the Sisters of Mary had been founded in 1926 as a community of sisters of the Schoenstatt Movement, efforts also arose to form a community for women as an "order in the world". The first attempts in the newly created way of life began in 1935, in 1938 the first statutes were drawn up and the name "Women of Schoenstatt" was established. The first novitiate began in 1941. In 1949 the community began building its mother house , the Regina House in Schoenstatt .

The community received ecclesiastical recognition on May 31, 1972 when it was established as a secular institute and recognized as an institute under episcopal law . On September 15, 1977 it was recognized as an institute under papal law . In accordance with the Codex Iuris Canonici Cann. 710-730 of 1983 they are an institute of consecrated life .

literature

  • Priska Volk: Secular Institute Women of Schoenstatt . In: Hubertus Brantzen (Ed.): Schoenstatt Lexicon: Facts - Ideas - Life . 2nd unchanged edition. Patris-Verlag, Vallendar 2002, ISBN 3-87620-195-0 ( moriah.de ).

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