Covenant Life Category

Agathe Hug/org. The Holy Mass "toward 2014" celebrated at the Original Shrine allows the participants - and also those who are present through schoenstatt-tv, through schoenstatt.org, simply through a poster placed in the Shrine, or by downloading the reports and the petitions - to go on pilgrimage every Saturday to one country or another, where the Covenant of Love is present. At these Masses, all the countries, where there is someone who has sealed the Covenant of Love, are mentioned. It is the same whether it is a countryRead More
BURUNDI, Caritas Kabirig. At the end of 2009, my daughter in-law was expecting her first child. The pregnancy was going well until the sixth month, at that time, she began to suffer from hypertension, and she underwent treatment.      Read More
ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa. During the Mass con-celebrated for the arrival of the Father Symbol to Córdoba, Father José María Iturrería invited the large number of faithful to "embody" the Year of Shrine that the Schoenstatt International Family is celebrating on the way toward the jubilee of the Covenant of Love with the words "Let us make our Nation…a Shrine!" The Father Symbol visited the province of Córdoba for four days on its worldwide pilgrimage in preparation for 2014 and was brought by a delegation that went to Ciudad deRead More
BELMONTE, Fr. Michael Gerber. We have been working since last year to get sponsors for the 284 columns that support the "Domus Pater Kentenich" (Father Kentenich's House). The number of donors is impressive: 161 columns already have sponsors.        Read More
Agathe Hug. There are some important anniversaries in the year 2012.  Seventy years have passed since the January 20, 1942.  The Pre-founding Document of October 27, 1912 is one hundred years old.  It is seventy years since March 11, 1942.  Presumably many are scratching their heads.  Wednesday, March 11, 1942?  That was the day Father Kentenich began the trip to Dachau.  The train that took him from Koblenz to Limburg departed at approximately 4:00 p.m., passing through Bad Ems.  In Limburg, the train that carried the prisoners was connected toRead More
Cristina Arana de Sanguinetti. On January 20, 2012, I was reading an online Argentinean newspaper, La Nación, when I found an article by a well-known journalist; it was a report about the Argentinean Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust.  I am interested in learning all I can about our older brothers, the Jews, because our Father and the Founder of Schoenstatt also suffered during the Nazi regime.    Read More
ITALY, Calogero Tuzzolino. On January 28th, the Campaign's Pilgrim Auxiliary MTA was welcomed in our city of Corleone and in particular in the parish community of María SS. Delle Grazie of the Franciscan Brothers of the Third Order Regular. The welcome of the picture and its pilgrimage throughout the week until February 4th was an extraordinary experience lived with faith. The visit and presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary has enveloped us with Her maternal love.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Romero. On March 1st, the Schoenstatt Family from Nogoyá joyfully welcomed the visit of the Father Symbol traveling throughout the world.        Read More
org. The contours of the celebrations on 18 October 2014 in Schoenstatt and then in Rome are gradually becoming visible - and influence people in the worldwide Schoenstatt Movement. 2014 will be a pilgrimage ... and takes shape "with every step on our pilgrim way". 2014 is gathering the Family "from every country, community and generation to renew the covenant of love" (WD 2014) at the Original Shrine. It opens its door in a new way from 1 April. The "original Peregrina" with which Joao Pozzobon walked 140.000 km onRead More
PARAGUAY, María Luz Fleitas. March 4th - second Sunday in Lent - with the Gospel of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Youth Shrine (Santuario Joven) was decorated with banners from the Boys' Youth. This next Saturday, three new priestly vocations born in this Shrine will enter the novitiate of the Schoenstatt Fathers: Carlos Sandoval, Santiago Yegros and Víctor González.    Read More