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VATICAN, Pontificial Council for the Family/schoenstatt.org • The Pontificial Council for the Family published a collection of texts related to the Synod (not available in the English version), and also on the focus given to family in Pope Francis’ catecheses during the last year. We gladly share what is offered at the website of the Pontificial Council: Review of the Family The family has been at the center of several events in recent days. On Sunday, October 18th, the Pope Francis canonized Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin, the parents ofRead More
FRANCIS IN AFRICA, by Sarah-Leah Pimentel • The Kenyan headlines on 26 November were abuzz with news about the Pope. Every detail of his trip to Kenya has been reported in the mainstream media. The headline in The East African read: “Kenyans brave morning rain for Pope’s Mass.” The front page of Standard Digital carried a large picture of Pope Francis greeting the priests who attended the Papal Mass. The website also has a number that readers can SMS to receive “alerts on Pope Francis’ visit.” Other headlines included: “PopeRead More
MEXICO, CIEES, by Maria Fischer • “What a great message for CIEES at this moment,” wrote Carlos Barrio, President of CIEES in Argentina, on the WhatsApp CIEES international group page referring to the discourse of Pope Francis on 7 November at St. Peter’s Square to 23,000 people, members of the National Italian Institute for Social Foresightedness (INPS), highlighting the importance of the right for time off, a retirement pension, maternity leave among other rights connected to the right to work “based on the same nature of the person and hisRead More
MEXICO, Ricardo and Denisse Santos • Finally the day arrived for the long awaited gathering – the Family Branch of Guadalajara’s annual retreat on 7-8 November 2015. At approximately 9:30 a.m., people began arriving at the house where they would experience the family weekend retreat. The leaders and those in charge of the group began to prepare by setting up tables, chairs, projectors and everything that was needed in order to welcome the families and begin. The well-supplied registration table with tablets, posters, lists, etc. was ready, and of courseRead More
FRANCIS IN ROME • The right to rest, pension, assistance to mothers, among other labour rights, “based on the nature of the human person and on his transcendent dignity” were the key themes of Pope Francis’ address on Saturday, 7 September, in St. Peter’s Square, to 23,000 members of the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS) — on the same day when some 130 participants of the CIEES (Iberian-American Congress for Schoenstatt Executives and Businesspeople) met in Monterrey, Mexico to discuss the topic of living a covenant culture inRead More
FRANCIS IN ROME • In this catechesis at the general audience that Pope Francis held on the first Wednesday of November in St. Peter’s Square, attended by several thousand Catholics and pilgrims from numerous countries, the Holy Father referred to the family as a “training ground for mutual giving and forging,” without which there cannot be lasting love. Francis first of all recalled that the recent Assembly of the Synod of Bishops “reflected in depth on the vocation and the mission of the family in the life of the ChurchRead More
Today Sonia Zárate and José Antonio Zaracho respond: We have been married for 31 years, we have 3 children: José Emilio (28), José Roberto (23) and María Florencia (19). We belong to the Family Branch of the Diocese of Encarnación, and currently we are fulfilling our commission as leaders of the Family Branch and we are postulants of the 1st Circle of the Apostolic League • Over a year into the pilgrimage through the second century of the covenant of love…what is your dream for this Schoenstatt in who weRead More
By Ani Souberlich, Vicky Ramírez Jou, Sonia Zaracho, Marité and Ramón Marini, José Argüello, Fr. José Pontes, Andreza Ortigoza, Mima Cardona, María Emilia Vidal, Maria Fischer, Fr. Antonio Cosp and 50,000 pilgrims • “How the world’s largest 18 October was experienced in Tupãrenda, Paraguay,” is the title of a Facebook post, while, Fr. Antonio Cosp thanked all the collaborators for their contribution to the “celebration of celebrations in Tuparenda.” The songs along with Bishop Francisco Pistilli and Fr. Pedro Kühlcke, Bishop Joaquín Robledo, Bishop of San Lorenzo (bilingual) and Fr.Read More

Posted On 01.11.2015In Missions

ÑUMI…my village

PARAGUAY, testimonies of the Schoenstatt Family Missions 2015, Oscar Aguilera •                                                                                Tuesday night, I was overwhelmed with anxiety. I did not know what was going to happen in the next few hours in what was going to be “my MFS village” [misiones Familiares de Schoenstatt, Schoenstatt Family Missions] 2015. My first experience. Ñumi, a new village. Everything was new like the heart I now have after this great experience. The great day finally arrived. The day I met the missionaries, since I did not know most of them, but nowRead More
POPE FRANCIS AT THE FAMILY SYNOD • The approval of the final document concluded the Synod of Bishops on the vocation and mission of the family in the Vatican at 18.46 on 24 October 2015. The final document was approved. All 94 paragraphs received 2/3 of the votes. These propositions will enable the Pope to write the post-synod Exhortation on the vocation and mission of the family in the contemporary Church and world. The final document produced and voted by the bishops will be published shortly, with the respective votesRead More