Yearly Archives: "2014"

URUGUAY, Soledad Gattas. The year 2013 is closing with the joy of having shared a year of projects and accomplishments! The Schoenstatt Family from Uruguay has been preparing for 2014, strengthening their unity with several Branch gatherings and that of the entire family.  Read More
CHILE, mda. The testimony about Mario Hiriart by Claudio Gelmi, Social Responsibility Director of the Engineering School,(the same school where Mario Hiriart studied and taught, and where many members of Schoenstatt have left a mark of professional commitment from the Covenant of Love) was a pleasant surprise; it was one of the many surprises during 2013.Read More
Fr Hans Peter Lechler. The feast of the Holy Family makes it clear that Christmas is not just a family celebration for "social" and emotional reasons. This is all the more true of our Schoenstatt Family! Already in the early years in Schoenstatt the sodalists of the Marian Sodality – that is, those who were unable to go home in the Christmas holidays – tried through their behaviour and their contributions to the Christmas celebrations to create a family. In addition, their Spiritual Director, Fr Kentenich, showed them the spiritualRead More
URUGUAY, Gonzalo Rodríguez. For a quite some time, the Montevideo Schoenstatt Family has longed for building a Shrine, a new Shrine for Uruguay, which will be the country’s second one (after the first daughter Shrine at a world-wide level, in Nueva Helvecia). There is still no place to build it, but they already have the altar that was conquered and imported from the city of Santa Maria, Brazil, with the local contribution of many faithful; it is the last one made by the Brothers of Mary in this country.Read More