Yearly Archives: "2014"

GERMANY, Felix Geyer. Every year the Schoenstatt Boys Youth (SMJ) of Germany meets for its annual conference between Christmas and New Year's Eve. 2014 was a very special year for us all and our conference reflects this.      Read More
GERMANY, fma. The whole of the ground floor, including the cafeteria, “papered” with coloured pages – this is how the Schoenstatt Centre in Memholz greeted young people, families and singles, collaborators at the Schoenstatt Centre and those involved with the Movement, on the Third Sunday of Advent for the sixth Memholz Conference. It had dealt on four occasions with making the Schoenstatt Centre fit for Schoenstatt’s second century, but this had already been in operation for some time. Yet there was no thought of taking a rest, recuperating and waitingRead More
Fr. José María García Sepúlveda. The “periphery” of man and his actual culture is the primary aim of the evangelization mission assumed by Holy Father Francis at the beginning of his pontificate, and with him, by the entire universal church.  It is a certainly surprising challenge, considering the level of tasks and problematic situations which the Church faces within herself and clearly made evident with  papal dimension on behalf of Holy Father Benedict XVI.Read More
PARAGUAY, mda. A dream becomes a reality today, on the 28th of December, the Feast of the Holy Family: the Holy Mary of the Trinity Church will be blessed in Tuparenda, Paraguay after more than 15 years of construction – every stage was accompanied by Schoenstatt.org, so the editorial team feels that it is a part of it. The good news: there will be a live transmission beginning at 10:00 a.m. local time (13.00 GMT), at the following link: www.starsoft.com.py/misaRead More
BURUNDI, Diomède Mujojoma. The Monte Sión Gikungu [Mount Zion Gikungu] Marian Schoenstatt Shrine joyfully celebrated the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with the new Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi, on Sunday, December 7, 2014. This solemnity is usually celebrated on the 8th of December each year and which has a special characteristic in the Shrine of Monte Sión Gikungu as well as all celebrations honoring the Virgin Mary. In fact, after the opening and closing of the Marian month in May and Feast of the Assumption, on the 15th of AugustRead More
CHILE, www.iglesiadesantiago.cl. Father Hernán Alessandri Morandé was one of the most representative, beloved and admired personalities who passed through the Schoenstatt Movement’s history. He died on December 18, 2007, at the age of 72. His canonization process is ready to begin in the Vatican; it is something that makes the members of the Schoenstatt Movement very happy. This was the reason that the Provincial Superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers, Fr. Mariano Irureta, met with Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati on Thursday, December 18th, at the Archdiocese of Santiago to converse about FatherRead More
IRAK, FIDES. The governor of the province of Kirkuk, the Kurd Necmettin Karim, has declared that the 25th of December is a holiday, to publicly express, the solidarity of the institutions and the entire society toward Christians, on the occasion of the Celebration of the Birth of the Lord.  Read More
FRANCIS - MESSAGE AND MESSENGER. Pope Francis decided to celebrate his 78th birthday with a gesture of love and solidarity with the poorest of Rome. The Argentinean Pontiff had 400 sleeping bags distributed among the homeless of the city to help them cope with the harsh Roman winter’s temperatures.Read More
IRAK, aleteia.org. These touching pictures arrive from the refugee camps of Iraq:  The Holy Family beneath a tent, just like any other refugee.   Surely, one of the most significant nativity scenes that are erected this year:  there was no place for Him in the inn, just as there is no place for them in the cities of Iraq dominated by extremists.Read More
mda. 18 December 2014, after the Covenant Celebration. The usual sending out and blessing of the Pilgrim Mother pictures for Germany had again taken place when Fr Egon M. Zillekens, re-elected on 21 October as representative and member of the General Presidium, and as such the Rector of the Priests’ Federation, came to the Original Shrine. His intention: He wanted a Pilgrim Mother for the International Priests’ Federation, one that would travel with him around the world to visit priests belonging to the Federation. The hour had come for aRead More