What do we actually celebrate during Holy Week and Easter?
Can I also experience Easter in my personal life?
Our Easter trail provides answers to these questions - and takes young and old into the special time in which we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus: in terms of content, playfully and creatively.
We cordially invite you and look forward to seeing you!
Osterweg in Quarten:
- from March 17 to April 21, 2024
- in Spanish and German
- outside in the beautiful nature around the New Schoenstatt Center
A journey from Palm Sunday to Easter
Jesus' path to Easter was a path through darkness and night, through suffering and death. A path marked by seemingly irreconcilable opposites: by rejoicing, honor and recognition, but also by denial, hatred and condemnation. Around 25 stations illustrate the last days of Jesus and their significance for us today, starting with Palm Sunday, where the children can ride on the homemade donkey and palm branches are also available to take home.
There are several stations for High Thursday: The Last Supper, the washing of the feet - where people could really wash each other's feet - and the station on Jesus' agony. On Good Friday, the threefold fall of Jesus is just as much a theme as Simeon's help in carrying the cross and Jesus' testament from the cross. What is particularly important to us here is the transfer to today. That is why there are questions for reflection at each station. For example, at the condemnation of Jesus with Pilate in mind: Which voices do I listen to? My conscience or what the mainstream says?
Experience faith
Impressed, a young father says: "The Easter Trail helps you to absorb faith not just in your head, but with all your senses. Here you can really relive the days from Palm Sunday to Easter!" And his wife says: "I'll be telling lots of young families about it!"
The creative space at the youth center is particularly popular, where young and old are invited to draw what moves them on paper-wrapped festival tables. The drawings impressively reflect what has touched the hearts of visitors to the Easter Trail.
Lots of life
Last year, the Easter Trail attracted many people. Some came from far away and stayed a night or two to really get to grips with the trail. Others said: "We'll come again. We want to delve even deeper into the message of this path - and you actually have to be alone to do that." Still others consciously walked the path as a group and discussed the questions and the significance of the content for our lives at each station. Others walked the path praying, so that you didn't dare speak to them. You could feel how much they engaged with the content in order to discover the dimension of Holy Week and Easter for their own lives. One man confirmed that this really was the case: "The impulses on the Easter path help to understand the significance for today of what happened over 2000 years ago."
And that was precisely our aim: For the message of Easter to resonate even more deeply in our lives; to provide answers to our questions and longings and thus shape our lives. This path has given us something like a new model of how this can be achieved today.
How the path came about...
Our fellow sisters in Schoenstatt inspired us to follow this path - and then we got to work: we sawed Easter bunnies out of old cupboard doors and sanded, painted, decorated and varnished over 60 Easter eggs. It was a particular pleasure to see hidden talents come to light during this unusual task.
We Sisters of Mary in Quarten look forward to your visit.
