Covenant Life Category

MEXICO, José Antonio Duarte. On Thursday, June 23rd, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Shrine of Querétaro began a forum of expressions of Eucharistic Adoration with the title: Adoring You.        Read More
PARAGUAY, María Luz Fleitas. Father Martin Gomez presided at a thanksgiving Mass of celebration for Father Kentenich's priestly ordination at the Youth Shrine Father Jose Pontes and Father Tommy Nin Mitchell concelebrated. All attending experienced the family atmosphere in a communion of Schoenstatt spirituality accompanied by the joy of the choir, the seminarian Juan Andres Le Vraux, postulant Carlos Sandoval and members of the Boys' Youth. Father's Secretariat was in charge of the Holy Mass.    Read More

Posted On 13.07.2011In Jubilee 2014

…and perhaps beyond

INTERNATIONAL, mfa. "…and perhaps beyond". These words of the Founding Document are continually and fully carried out by this extraordinary "highway of grace" manifested in the covenant with Lebanon motivated by the celebration of the Holy Mass "2014" in the Original Shrine on June 25, 2011.    Read More
BRAZIL, Sister M. Nilza P. da Silva. Have you thought about making a reservation for the great Jubilee 2014? That is what it is about. The National Headquarters of Advisers of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement of Brazil has just launched the Matercard.        Read More
SCOTLAND, Eileen and John Shalloo/mcb. Eileen and John Shalloo, members of the Schoenstatt Family of Scotland, have discovered their mission in preparation for Jubilee 2014. Together with some others they want to be “Praying Hands” …          Read More
Mercedes Fellner. July 8th is the anniversary of Father Joseph Kentenich's priestly ordination. One year ago, the Schoenstatt Movement celebrated the centenary of the priestly ordination of its founder on a worldwide level in Schoenstatt, in Limburg, in the Shrines, and cathedrals all around the world. In the Year of the Father Current, the first year of the triennium of the preparation for 2014, "we want this day to be very special," as they say in Paraguay. It is the reason to express gratitude for hisRead More
UNITED STATES, Susana Borrego. More than seven years ago, the Blessed Mother came to my home in Charlotte, North Carolina. I did not know her name, and after some time, I did not know what to call her.        Read More
Mircia C. Botano. Once again, on the first Saturday of the month, another live transmission (or a taped one for those who are not so heroic) of the Mass "toward 2014." Once more it is this magic moment of bonding with an almost unknown country, with brothers/sisters in the Covenant, who live so far away and yet only a distance of a "My Queen, my Mother" away. It is once more time to pray for the intentions of the Schoenstatt Family and to feel that gift of internationality, a giftRead More
ECUADOR, Ma. Cecilia Avilés/Ma. Elena Vilches. The Father's Home for the World Family experienced heavenly moments in the Shrine of Guayaquil when the Father Symbol that Father Kentenich gave to the Schoenstatt family passed into the hands of the Family from Brazil.        Read More

Posted On 06.07.2011In Covenant Life

My day in Schoenstatt

mkf. Last week Patricia Fernández from Costa Rica had the grace of being in Schoenstatt for 48 hours after visiting her family in Croatia; it was quite a pilgrimage. She has known about Schoenstatt for a year, and she belongs to one of the Family Work groups in her country. A few days after returning to Costa Rica, she sent a testimony to our international web- page.      Read More