Understanding Community and Groups in Schoenstatt Movement
Explore the concept of community and groups within the Schoenstatt Movement, focusing on renewal, spiritual growth, and education in a spiritually uplifting atmosphere. Discover the importance of belonging to a group and experiencing deep spiritual connections for personal development.
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WELCOME! 1
What is a group; what is a What is a group; what is a community? Is there a community? Is there a difference? (Share your difference? (Share your thoughts!) thoughts!) Time for Discussion 3
WHAT IS A GROUP; WHAT IS A COMMUNITY? Schoenstatt rescues this from the past and moves into the future by means of small cells that ensure a family-like exchange in a spiritually uplifting atmosphere. For Father Kentenich the groups were: places of renewal, because they were places where we find home. Therefore, they were also places where growth and education take place. 4
1. PLACES OF RENEWAL Today we need a movement of renewal yes, many of them and in many forms. Having learned a great deal from history, we know that in the case of great movements of renewal, God, the great educator of the nations, called upon untapped peoples to achieve his aim. We recall the time when the Roman Empire lay in ruins: the Germanic people took up their legacy. ( ) If we want to form and mold personalities, if we want to grip and educate the individual on a religious level, then we must see that they join a group, Fr. J. Kentenich, 1951 5
2. HOME FOR ALL Home is the place where God released me from eternity into this temporality and the place from which at least in spirit steer a course from time to eternity. If we want to win people for a community, great speeches alone will not do the job. Those responsible for a community and their followers are secured only from the moment when the community leaders have had in and with the followers profound spiritual, above all religious experiences, and these at the places to which they want to bind their following. 6
2. HOME FOR ALL What, for example, is the deepest reason for our attachment to Schoenstatt? The spiritual grace-filled experiences that re- connected us with Schoenstatt as a Movement or as a place. Of themselves the talks we give here do not bring about this home. Fr. J. Kentenich, 1951 7
3. PLACE OF GROWTH AND EDUCATION The community ideal expresses the psychological and spiritual atmosphere of the community It is of utmost importance that such an ideal be imbued with value, and applied correctly. The community ideal educates the members towards a healthy piety, in contrast to those pieties which merely emphasize the exterior practices, and is most of all concerned about fulfilling its duty. the community ideal [has the capacity] to bring the community together and it preserves it from various dangers. Think once of the situation of the Church in its beginning stages. Fr. J. Kentenich, 1950 8
SMALL GROUPS SHOULD be creative, emphasize commitment, and nourish the soul, preparing the ground for renewal! 9
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 10
