ARGENTINA, Silvia Losada/org. The Work Document 2014 states: "The nucleus of the Jubilee, October 18^th, is the renewal of the Covenant in the Original Shrine, in union with our Founder and Father, and united as a worldwide missionary and multicultural family that is prepared and willing to be sent forth anew." The renewal of the Covenant of Love is prepared; expressed and made concrete in this triennium of preparation for the Jubilee with a profound and serious renewal in all the spheres of life and of the Schoenstatt apostolate. The Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign in Argentina faces this challenge. In his first letter to the missionaries of the Campaign, Father Guillermo Carmona, the new national adviser, summarizes the impulse that was recently given during the recent Journey of Representatives in New Schoenstatt, Florencio Varela.

vem. On Saturday, May 12^th, a beautiful celebration of the Holy Mass was held on the way toward 2014 in Covenant with Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is an island off southeast India. The Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt arrived in this country from Mulgoa, Australia and also through the English speaking community in Berlin, Germany. This Holy Mass was celebrated in a close spiritual union with everyone who takes the Covenant to this land and to everyone who will one day seal their Covenant of Love with the MTA.

fma. "The Holy Father has authorized to the Congregation to promulgate, among others, the decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Sister Emilie Engel." Just ten minutes after the publication of the note arrived via the Vatican press service, Mercedes MacDonough of Argentina and Luis Lezcano of Paraguay complemented the note adding, in the comments, the "missionary face" of Sister Emilie or, as someone said, "her apostolic project on the way to 2014." This is a form of the Campaign inspired by Sister Emilie's life.

Margaret Steinhage Fenelon. Oh, I can just picture him, sitting across the table from me, doodling words and symbols on his notepad and with a playful glint in his eyes. I’m in a snit about one thing or another, indignantly raging about something gone wrong in my life, and looking for justification, direction, and rectification. My spiritual director smiles, sets his pen down, leans back in his chair, and looks me in the eye.

Hna. M. Elizabet Parodi. "Something that always impressed me on visits to the monasteries of Mount Athos is that, upon arrival, the first thing which they offered a guest of honor was to visit the chapel of the relics of the saints. There is where the heart of the monastery beats and there the monks receive the incentive for their spiritual growth."(Cardinal Angelo Amato, words addressed to the postulators, Augustinianum, Rome, January 19, 2012.)This comment by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, expresses a profound truth. The saints are the ripe fruit of a community, the living face of its charism. On the journey towards the Jubilee of 2014, the witness of so many Schoenstatt children who throughout these 100 years of history have lived the covenant with radicalism and made ​​the Shrine their "cradle of sanctity" (Founding Document, October 18, 1914), is the best gift we can give to God, to the Church, to the world.

ITALY, Vincenzo Rocco. Sunday, April 22. Sicily. Our Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt had gathered in Palermo, at the "Jesus Liberatore di Fondo Margifaraci" centre, about 1,500 faithful from all parts of the island, for the 7th Regional Meeting of her family. To welcome us all, was the auxiliary image of the Pilgrim Mother for Italy, which on that day ended the visit in our beautiful Sicily that both loves and worships her.

GERMANY, fma. The "I" in IKAF is growing. Amazement, followed by smiles and with some delay for translation, was the reaction of the participants at the meeting of the International Academy for Leaders at Schoenstatt auf'm Berg, Memholz. And indeed, through the presence of Fabrizio Usai from Rome, member of the founder generation of the Schoenstatt Family in Italy, programmer of schoenstatt.org, and by profession the leader of around a dozen colleagues, the meeting from 20-22 April had in fact become more international, and switched happily between German and English throughout. A number of new participants – partly through personal connections, and partly attracted by the Jour Fixe – and a subject that had developed from the last meeting, such as the project "Jour Fixe for business people and leaders", introduced a real dynamism into the discussions on "A Person at the Centre".

PERU, Queca Espinoza. The Blessed Mother receives her diocesan priest sons in the de la Molina Shrine in Lima, Peru.  As they do each month, one by one they arrived happily at the Shrine to visit their dear Mother…to thank her for the experiences of the past month, to present her their petitions, their desires, their successes, and failures.