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Fr. José María García. Advent - Christmas 2013 Dear Friends, How nice it is to celebrate a feast when everything has been properly prepared and when the central reality is not the preparation as such, but meeting others. This is true even in the joy occasioned by gratitude to the one who has invited us, and the surprises and gifts that are generously exchanged, and that make us feel "richer, more blessed, better people".Read More
ARGENTINA, Fr. Javier Arteaga. It is not easy to write this Christmas Covenant Letter at this particular time of the country's social unrest. It seems that Christmas, synonymous of God's love, light and peace, has nothing to do with the atmosphere of social tension and the fear of the looting that we are experiencing these days. A boy told me that celebrating Christmas now, with Christmas carols, a tree with lights and the manger would be like submerging oneself in an illusionary world, a childish one that clashes withRead More
Fr. José María García. While reading today’s Gospel (John 2, 14-22) and celebrating today’s feast day (Nov. 9), two thoughts spontaneously came to me.  One is that the Lord is faithful, not only to his plan, but He is faithful to us.  Why?  We are working with the essence of our vocation, with our vocation as businesspeople and leaders.  And what we have heard in today’s readings is exactly how the Lord, in the background, makes reference to his faithfulness, to that fidelity which allows us to be leaders.  Read More
Fr. José María García - Shrine of Madrid, August 2013. Dear Dream Team*  friends,In preparation for a jubilee meeting of one of the university youth groups from Santiago de Chile, one of those young people recently wrote to me about our Holy Father Francis as someone valiant in his fatherhood, someone who is a “father without complexes” and who leads the Church without complexes or strange commitments.  Read More
BRAZIL, Fr. Alexandre Awi. “We should have our finger on the pulse of time and our ear to the heart of God," our father and founder, Fr. Joseph Kentenich taught us.  This is the trust in Divine Providence to which no Schoenstatt member can indifferent or apathetic given the events of the last few days.  Recently, Pope Francis also reminded us of the need for Christians to be concerned about the public good, the true meaning of political action.  What does God want to tell us in all this?  Read More
org. The Conference 2014 called upon the Schoenstatters of this epoch to be the "Generation 2014" – pilgrims on the way to the jubilee, missionaries of the covenant of love, prophets of Fr Kentenich's charism of renewal. These are the people who are preparing the step over the threshold into a new Schoenstatt century, which has to be marked by the formative power of the covenant of love, a force that can transform the world into a single tent of a covenant culture.n thisRead More
Fr. José María García - Madrid Shrine on the Eve of 31 May 2013. Dear Friends, At the Pentecost celebration our Holy Father invited us to allow God to surprise us. In the last few months we have not ceased to be surprised, or it would be better to say, God himself has surprised us far beyond our expectations. Surprises that filled out hearts with joy and hope! He obviously wants us to see clearly that HE is taking the initiative – and he "urgently" wants us to see itRead More
ROME - Pope Francis. "Doesn’t the same thing also happen to us when something completely new occurs in our everyday life? We stop short, we don’t understand, we don’t know what to do. Newness often makes us fearful, including the newness which God brings us, the newness which God asks of us. We are like the Apostles in the Gospel: often we would prefer to hold on to our own security, to stand in front of a tomb, to think aboutRead More
ARGENTINA, mda. In his Pastoral Letter for Holy Week Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Primate of Argentina (and since 13 March Pope Francis I) recommended that all Movements and parishes should go out onto the streets "as the living Christ", to transform our Church into a "Church of open doors". These doors should not only be open to welcome people, but also for us to go out from closed Church rooms in order to celebrate and help those who do not come in on their own.Read More
ARGENTINA, F. Guillermo Carmona. I begin these lines with gratitude for the courageous gesture of the Holy Father, who discovered God’s will in the “voice of being” (his frailty) and in the “voice of the soul” (inner certainty) and he is stepping aside to continue the struggle from another trench:  that of prayer and inner giving of self.  The reason for this letter is to share some motivations with you to live a better Lenten season this year.    Read More