Monthly Archives: "July 2013"

org. We publish sentences of Pope Francis every Monday (or Tuesday...) as the "Door to the Week", so that they may accompany us every step of our pilgrim way in everyday life. These are statements made in the previous week, they are words that inspire us to increasingly become missionary pilgrims who live in solidarity, as poor, joyful, open and simple Pilgrims – in and with the Church – and ask for renewal in the genuine spirit of the covenant. Without humility there isRead More
BRAZIL, Maria Rita Vianna/mda. “It's official.  Our Fr. Alexandre Awi de Mello will form part of the Papal entourage.  He was personally chosen by Pope Francis to be his translator during World Youth Day.  We will post an interview with Fr. Alexandre on the website of the Brazilian Schoenstatt Boys' Youth. Watch this space!" These were the words on the Facebook page of the Schoenstatt Boys' Youth IGNIS meeting.  The news began to spread like wildfire on 21 July.  Fr. Alexandre Awi de Mello, the national spiritual director for theRead More
BRAZIL, Marcos and Cassiane Weisemann. The Pilgrim Shrine, a replica of the Schoenstatt Shrine built of wood, was inaugurated on July 18th, by Monsignor Orani Tempesta, Archbishop of Río de Janeiro.  Since then, some days of open doors have passed to welcome the pilgrims of World Youth Day and all those who want to encounter the Blessed Mother, who is well placed in the heart of the “Marvelous City” that welcomes World Youth Day.Read More
BRAZIL, Pauline Almeida. The excitement and expectation were great on the evening of 18 July. It wasn't a "normal" Covenant Day like all the others, but the start of "Cor Unum", the international meeting of Schoenstatt Girls and Young Women. A few minutes before the start, Isabel Ubierna, 15, from Argentina, said she was hoping to grow in love for Mary and Schoenstatt, and to become "one heart in our Father" with the youth of the whole world.Read More
ARGENTINA, Laura and Marcelo Salvarani. With winter weather, windy and very cold, the past 9th of July - a national holiday - the Schoenstatt Family renewed the crowning of the Blessed Mother as Queen of the Motherland Family in the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján - the national Marian Shrine of Argentina - commemorating the 25th anniversary of this event.Read More
Fr. Andrew Pastore. With only 455 days missing for the great Covenant Pilgrimage of October 18, 2014, a new edition of the official 2014 newsletter "Towards 2014" has been sent out. If you know anybody who does not yet receive it - forward it! Find the earlier newsletters searching the category "2014", also in the news archive. {countdown}Read More
BRAZIL, Priscila Bernardo and Érika Araújo. The Apostolic Schoenstatt Youth met last Sunday, inviting the youths in São Bernardo do Campo and Campinas to participate in an unusual Capital of Grace in preparation for Cor Unum, Ignis and World Youth Day: Conquering the mountain!  Read More
SPAIN, Fátima Alvaredo, mda. "It has been a marvelous experience for me. It has made me leave the comfort of my daily life and approach my neighbor. What I have found is dignity. Since that day, when I stroll through Madrid and see people on the ground, I become aware of how many people we pass by without looking them in the face. It has made me think. I have met Christ in them. I love this Schoenstatt," writes Leonor in a commentary noteRead More
BRAZIL, Marcos and Cassiane Weizenmann - World Youth Day (WYD) is starting. In Rio de Janeiro the pilgrims can already been seen on the streets wearing their national colours. A WYD atmosphere has taken over the city. Catholics are enthusiastic and animated as they work and pray. Non-Catholics have noticed that something is going on, asked what is happening and are getting in the mood.Read More
mda. 18 July 2013. People from every generation and social class gather today around two hundred shrines, countless wayside shrines and chapels all over the world, in union with the little shrine in the Schoenstatt Valley. On the coming 18 October 2014 thousands of pilgrims will celebrate a hundred years of the covenant of love in union with one another, and renew this covenant and their readiness to create a covenant culture in every sphere of life – in the economy, politics, in the Church, in education and formation, andRead More