Schoenstatt male youth

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The Schoenstatt Male Youth (SMJ) is an international Catholic youth community and part of the Schoenstatt Movement . Important elements of youth work are the transmission of Christian values ​​and the education of free personalities with a firmness in faith.

Youth work

Tent camp of the Schoenstatt Youth in Fulda

The male youth is aimed specifically at male children and young people, the sister organization in the Schoenstatt Youth and the Schoenstatt Movement Girls / Young Women (Schoenstatt MJF) at female. This separation is the founder of Schoenstatt on the Father Joseph Kentenich based Kentenich pedagogy established that favors the separate gender education for boys and girls.

The “five pillars of male youth” are the cornerstones of the SMJ: community, school of life, covenant of love, being a man and being an apostle. The most important activities include local youth groups, tent camps, community days or weekends, regular meetings of members in small groups (circles or rings) and youth worship services.

The spiritual center of the male youth is the Marienberg youth center in Schoenstatt .

history

From 1912 onwards, Father Josef Kentenich, as the Spiritual of the Pallottine Study Home, gathered a group of young boarding school students with whom he founded a Marian Congregation and, on October 18, 1914, concluded the Covenant of Love , which is considered the origin of the Schoenstatt Movement. From this congregation the Schoenstatt Male Youth developed and, like the other branches of the movement, it experienced an international expansion.

Germany

The male youth in Germany consists of independent diocesan organizations, some of which are divided into further subdivisions. Several dioceses each are combined to form the regions center , lighthouse (northern Germany), signposts (new federal states), Bavaria and southwest . In 2014 the Schoenstatt Male Youth was admitted to the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) at the federal level , where it is run as a youth association without voting rights.

Inspired by the youth festival organized in the run-up to World Youth Day 2005 in Schoenstatt, the male youth together with the Schoenstatt MJF organize an annual youth festival at the place where it was founded, the Night of the Shrine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us - The pillars of the SMJ ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - Documentation of the 1999 annual conference on schoenstatt-mannesjugend.de
  2. ↑ http://www.nachtdesheiligtums.de/