Schoenstatt Priests’ League

• We are diocesan priests in our diocese

• We belong to Schoenstatt
  an international spiritual movement within the Catholic Church.

• Along with us, twenty-five other groups are part of the Schoenstatt Movement:
  Priests, Women, Men, Families and Youth.

• Each group is legally independent

• the founder: Father Joseph Kentenich and his original spirituality

• the founding day: October 18th as the origin of the whole Movement
  A new approach to Mary and the orientation toward her person and mission.

• The love for the Church expressed in a committed co-responsibility.
• Missionary commitment to the renewal of the Church and a new Christian culture.

• Together with the other Schoenstatt priestly communities, we strive in the Priests’ League for the formation and integral development of the priestly personality.

• Under the protection of Mary, we find home and security in the conflicts of a pluralistic and secularized world.

• In covenant with Mary we collaborate in the new evangelization of the Church on her way through the third Christian millennium.

• From the “faith of Providence”:
  Seeking and finding God in all things, events and people.

• From the “workday sanctity”:
  Shaping everyday life out of love for God and people

• From the “Covenant of Love”: Living the covenant with God in a concrete way with Mary.

• From the spirituality of Father Joseph Kentenich

• From the attachment to the spiritual center of the Schoenstatt Movement, the Shrine of the Blessed Mother.

• From the experience of family-like communion:
  It gives us
  – Support in the circle of like-minded people
  – Suggestions for the development of one’s own personality
  – Pastoral impulses for the pastoral ministry

• For the presbyterate of our bishop

• For the priesthood of the deanery

• For a cooperative pastoral care in our parishes

• For the member communities of the Schoenstatt Movement

• For the renewal of the image of the priest from the spirit of the evangelical councils

• For a renewed Church out of the spirit of Vatican II

• For a culture of love

We join together within the diocese:

• In discussion groups
• In days of reflection and recreation
• In conferences and retreats

We form an inter-diocesan working community at the founding place of Schoenstatt in Vallendar near Koblenz:

• We have at our disposal sources of inspiration from the other Schoenstatt priestly communities
• Together with them we offer events and work aids.
• An annual theme takes up current questions, which we try to answer from the charism of the founder

Through personal consecration to the “Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt,” I commit myself as a “collaborator

• To strive for holiness in keeping with my status through generous self-education.
• to the fervent apostolate
• and to receive the “League Letter” contact sheet.

or as a “member”:
furthermore – to secure the spiritual life – to

• a spiritual agenda
• to receive the Sacrament of Penance regularly in the spirit of spiritual accompaniment
• and to the participation in Exerzitien or conferences.