Schoenstatt Movement of Florida

The Schoenstatt Movement provides SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AND RENEWAL TO FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS, through its Shrine located in Miami, Florida, which provides a place where families and individuals gather for prayer.

The main program provided by the movement is the family branch, which offers couples the opportunity to grow spiritually and in community with other catholic families. There are workshops and presentations held at the shrine center throughout the year to help accomplish this goal. The organization also offers the opportunity for couples to form and join groups which meet regularly to discuss and study materials from the Schoenstatt movement. The main goals of each couple is to make the COVENT OF LOVE with the Virgin Mary, which is normally attained after participating two years in the family branch. the covenant of love is made via celebration at the shrine, helps parents in the education of their children and in their marriage relationship.

The Family Branch is actively involved in the community in various activities including running monthly workshops at various Catholic parishes throughout South Florida to help couples grow spiritually, providing annual Christmas food baskets to families in need, offering two marriage retreats each year to help couple strengthen their marriages, help parents in the education of their children through monthly meetings. All these apostolates tend to protect the BASIC CELL OF SOCIETY, to form healthy, holy families that renew society and that permeate the culture of the values of the Gospel.