Monthly Archives: "September 2013"

PARAGUAY, mda. On Saturday, September 21st, a powerful storm caused severe damage in many areas of Paraguay. "It has been unusual. My generation has not experienced a deluge that lasted so long. Each hailstone was larger than an orange. An enormous number of roof tiles were broken in a very populated area of Paraguay," commented Father Antonio. The National Schoenstatt Shrine in Paraguay suffered severe damage.Read More
CHILE, Jessica Maldonado. The founding of the Schoenstatt Women's Apostolic Federation in Chile became a reality with the consecration of the first course. Isn't this news worthy of being known to Schoenstatt worldwide on the road toward Jubilee 2014? A letter to the Schoenstatt Family of Chile (published in the "Vinculo" Magazine) reads: "With great joy we share the happy news of our Consecration as a Founding Course of the Schoenstatt Women's Apostolic Federation on August 15, 2013."Read More
GERMANY, Barbara Pons. During our last Covenant Sunday the Schoenstatt Family in the diocese of Aachen was gathered in its Missio Patris Shrine. There the idea of the Working Document for 2014 was taken up to renew the covenant of love in its international network and with its missionary formative power. Some of those present explained the project: "Each shrine its house" with great enthusiasm.Read More
INDIA, Egon M. Zillekens/mda. On the Blessed Mother's feastday, 12 September 2013, the first course of candidates for the Priests' Federation in India, and hence in Asia, set out on its way. There are eight diocesan priests between the ages of 33-54. Together with the Pilgrim Mother they travel to the peripheries. These are priests who in their parish in Northern India have a 100% attendance of all the Faithful at Holy Mass ..., because all 28 come. These are priests who work with very ordinary people, and priests whoRead More
PARAGUAY, Fabián Daniel López Cuevas. "Do you know the land so warm and dear which Eternal Love itself has built: where noble hearts beat with affection and bear with each other in the joy of sacrifice; and flow as one into the heart of God; where streams of love well forth with might to quench the thirst of the world for love? This wonderland is known to me - It is the meadow radiantly lit by Tabor's sun, where our Three times Admirable Lady reigns in the midstRead More
ROME, Don Stefano Mueller. A wonderful late summer's day. The doors of the shrine "of all of us", MATRI ECCLESIAE are wide open. In the international shrine at Belmonte we join in the handing over of the Original Shrine by the Pallottine Society to our worldwide Family. Schoenstatters from the first Federation group in Rome, young adults and the family groups of the Eternal City are represented, as are the missionaries of the Pilgrim Mother, and pilgrims from Casalotti and the parish of St Gemma, the Sisters of Mary fromRead More
CHILE, Sergio Peralta Venegas. Not long ago, the Men's Branch of Chile celebrated the 40th anniversary of Blessed Mother's crowning. On a somewhat cool morning, the Meeting began for men from Tuniche, a rural section near Rancagua. Very early, at 8:30 A.M., the first ones arrived from Nuevo Belén (Santiago), then the group from Abba, from Campanario (Santiago), from de Viña - Los Pinos, from Quillota, and from Bellavista.Read More
ITALY, Federico Bauml. "I decided to call for the whole Church , September 7 , a day of fasting for peace in Syria and around the world ... From 19:00 to 24:00 hours we will gather in prayer and in a spirit of penance to invoke this gift of God. Humanity needs to see gestures of peace. I therefore ask all communities to organize some liturgical act according to this intention. I'll be waiting." Yes, that's the day Sept. 7. Divine Providence wanted to combine the feast day ofRead More
mda. On the afternoon of 22 September the historic handing over of the key took place in the Original Shrine in Schoenstatt before a small gathering. "The donation of the chapel of grace in Vallendar, Schoenstatt by the community of the Pallottine Fathers to the Schoenstatt Movement was celebrated today within the framework of praying Vespers," the Pallottine website announced. The celebration of Vespers served as the solemn act and official presentation of the Marian Shrine to the Schoenstatt Movement for the centenary of its foundation in 2014, which hadRead More
mda. He writes a letter to atheists; he phones a six-year-old boy to thank him for a picture he had painted and given to him during an audience; he gives Jesuit magazines a thirty-page interview that startles the world; he speaks again and again about the Church as mother and says it is his favourite image, which complements the other of a missionary Church that goes out to the peripheries of society instead of closing herself off - a Church that opens herself for the needs of the world andRead More