Yearly Archives: "2014"

mda. And it happened at that time, in the time after Schoenstatt’s jubilee … they appeared at the doors of Schoenstatt – men, women and children who had fled their homes with nothing but their lives: traumatised, lost, homeless … They sought shelter … And the hearts of the people there, where a hundred years earlier they had been surrounded by war, opened to them. Not just hearts, but also houses, empty houses, houses in which people moved closer together to take them in. They moved in and experienced thatRead More
ADVENT WITH POPE FRANCIS, org. We celebrate the fourth Advent Sunday. Christmas is close. As in every year we hear the call: Let us go out as pilgrim to meet the Lord! Joy for the poor, a feast for the people – let us prepare the way of the Lord! In his Jubilee message at the audience on 25 October our Holy Father, Pope Francis, presented an Advent inspiration … an Advent inspiration towards this Christmas and into Schoenstatt’s second century. Let us allow ourselves to be moved and challengedRead More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. A year ago, a few Schoenstatt members in Cape Town got together and asked the question: What can we do to put Christ back into Christmas? It seems that increasingly Christmas is about consumerism and materialism.  How do we take the angels' message of "peace and goodwill to all men" to the men of our time?  Read More
ARGENTINA, Anahi Mariño. On the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Sunday, the 7th of December, the wayside shrine of the Mother Thrice Admirable Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt in San Justo was blessed.  A few minutes before 8:00 p.m., before nightfall, the faithful who gathered at the feet of the wayside shrine in front of the local parish were sure that God had blessed them with rain from heaven when many of them saw a rainbow. The rainbow is one of the signs ofRead More
GERMANY, Father Stefan Keller. On December 17, 2014 – Pope Francis’ 78th birthday – was the 70th Anniversary of the priestly ordination of Blessed Karl Leisner in Dachau concentration camp, through the hands of a French bishop, who was also a prisoner. On this occasion, a statue was blessed in Kleve (Cleves), in the lower Rhine, Blessed Karl Leisner’s hometown.Read More
COVENANT SOLIDARITY, mda. “…The truth is that Mary is the one who knows how to transform a stable into a home for Jesus with a few rags and a mountain of tenderness…” A Schoenstatt Diocesan Priest has chosen this phrase from Pope Francis’ audience with the pilgrims of the Schoenstatt Movement, along with a photo of a woman and her child in her arms in very poor hut...There are more than 130 families who come from a life in huts of sticks and plastic and who will celebrate thisRead More
IN A FEW WORDS, Fr. Joaquin Alliende. At the start of October, from every quarter one could hear: "Our Mother will surprise us with great gifts." And so it was.  In our Schoenstatt Land, we experienced that the "Home Song" is a tangible and prophetic reality.  Rome allowed us to feel that the Church-family is the way of the future.  It will demand of us a vital deepening of the attachment with the "paternal principle" of the People of God, the Holy Father.Read More
PUERTO RICO, Edgardo L. Rivera. The Schoenstatt Jubilee Year has brought many blessings to the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement, especially for the Schoenstatt Missionary Motorcyclists’ Club. One of these was the initiation of the first four members in Puerto Rico.      Read More
ROME, Mons. Dr. Peter Wolf. A trip from Germany to Rome is carried out every year; the Diocesan Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers organized it, and it was also taken this year.  On Monday of the first week of Advent, they departed from Schoenstatt and Würzburg respectively in two buses.  Father Stefan Keller along with Father Wolf accompanied the bus from the basin of the Rhine River; Father Armin Noppenberger accompanied the one from Liefrauenhoehe.  They had a goodnight, and they arrived punctually at 9:00 a.m. on the following morning atRead More
ROME, Martin Emge/mda. “Live in such a way that others will be interested enough to ask: Why? Testimony.  The path of testimony. There is nothing more that can be added to this.  Testimony in everything.  We are nobody's saviour.  We are transmitters of the One who saved us all.  And we can only transmit this if we take up the life of this someone called Jesus in our own lives, in our flesh, in our history.  This is testimony.  Testimony.” The words of Pope Francis during the Jubilee audience ofRead More