VICTORIA MATRIS DELEGATION
WELCOME TO THE SCHOENSTATT FATHERS COMMUNITY, NIGERIA
We are delighted to have you on our page. This platform serves as a medium for us to share our activities regarding our Identity, Life, and Mission in Nigeria and across the globe. We are also thrilled to inform you that you have the opportunity to join us as a friend, partner, collaborator, and companion in the Covenant of Love with Christ through Mary as we strive to fulfill the divine mission entrusted to our community by God, through the guidance of our Father and Founder, Fr. Joseph Kentenich.
Fr. Dr. Charles Ndukwe Ozioko, ISch
Delegate Superior
FROM THE DESK OF OUR FOUNDER
“Trust in Divine Providence means that we are certain: God guides everything with love, even if we cannot understand His ways. In His hands, every joy, trial, and challenge has a purpose. Our task is to trust, surrender, and walk confidently in the path He sets before us, knowing that His love is always working for our ultimate good. Even in the darkest moments, His providence is a light that never fades.” -Fr. Joseph Kentenich
WHO ARE THE SCHOENSTATT FATHERS?
Our Mission & Vision
A Brief History
We are a community of Roman Catholic Priests whose primary mission is the priestly service of the International Schoenstatt Movement. Together with this movement we work towards the moral and religious renewal of the society and the mission of the Church.
About our Delegation
In the 1980s several Africans from different countries applied to join the community of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Germany. Each of them got a negative answer because it was impossible at that time for so many practical reasons. Above all, at this time the formation and everything was centralized in Germany.
Our Founder: Fr. JK
Schoenstatt is a Divine Initiative that came through the hands of Father Joseph Kentenich. Father Joseph Kentenich was born in Gymnich near Cologne, Germany, on November 16, 1885. As a youth, he recognized his calling to become a priest.
Our Spirituality
Our charism is majorly Marian, as our spiritual way of life as a community, we emphasize and encourage profound love of Mary, love of the Church, and love of the mission of Christ. The covenant of love with Mary in the Shrine is the fulcrum of our Marian spirituality. Our Marian spirituality is lived in three ways: covenant spirituality, instrument spirituality and everyday sanctity.
Our Mission
Our mission is to form a new man in a new society. And consequently bring about the renewal and transformation of the Church and the world through our covenant culture and the pedagogy of self-education inspired by our founder under the tutelage of the Blessed Mother Mary in the Shrine.
Join Us
Schoenstatt is a beautiful life for all asundery. You have a place amongst us and we shall be glad to have you. You can be part us either by Vocation or in affiliation as friend of Schoenstatt, Partner and collaborators. Please feel free to contact us. May God Bless you as you discern to join us. Amen
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