Schoenstatt Institute of the Marian Brothers

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Father Josef Kentenich , founder of the Schoenstatt Movement

As a division of the Schoenstatt Movement, the Schoenstatt Institute of the Marienbrüder is a secular institute of the Catholic Church for lay men .

history

The Marian Brothers were founded on July 16, 1942 by the founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, Father Josef Kentenich , together with the Austrian lawyer Eduard Pesendorfer in the Dachau concentration camp . Father Kentenich wanted to initiate a male lay community as early as the 1920s, but due to a lack of interested parties, it had not yet come about. After the end of the war, the first young men entered the community of the Marian Brothers in Schoenstatt under the leadership of Father Alexander Menningen .

The community was established in 1993 as a secular institute under diocesan law in the Diocese of Trier . There are communities of the Marian Brothers in Brazil , Burundi , Chile , Germany and Paraguay .

Community

The members are not priests, but like the lay brothers in religious communities they live in consecrated celibacy and in community. In their everyday life, however, they mostly pursue normal, worldly professions and thus live the Christian ideals in the midst of the world. The prerequisite for admission is completed vocational training or a university entrance qualification.

The Marian Brothers see their task within the Schoenstatt Movement in supporting the male communities ( Schoenstatt Men's Association and Schoenstatt Men's League ) and male youth . Among other things, they run an international education center in Bonn as well as the Marienberg youth center, a goldsmith and art workshop in Schoenstatt and a carpentry and organ building company in Brazil.

literature

  • Dietger M. Kuller: Schoenstatt Institute Marienbrüder . 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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