Monthly Archives: "January 2015"

VATICAN, aciprensa. The Paraguayan couple, Víctor and Stella Domínguez, traveled to Rome from January 22nd-24th to participate in the International Congress of Family and Life Movements, Groups and Associations with the theme “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and in the Contemporary World,” where they shared their experience in the pastoral for divorced people in a new relationship.Read More
ARGENTINA, Mónica Jendrzejczyk. Bishop Eduardo García chose this scripture, “And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” [2 Corinthians, 12:15] as a motto when he was installed as bishop for the Diocese of San Justo on Sunday, December 14th, the 3rd Sunday of Advent. For the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign of the diocese, this motto is a strong inspiration for its missionary work for 2015. “It is our desire at the beginning of 2015 that we can resemble this motto in the same way,” they said.Read More
ARGENTINA, Lilita and Carlos Ricciardi/mda. The Misiones Familiares [Family Missions] of La Plata began on Saturday, January 24th. Before departing for Magadalena, the place of mission 2015, the families and youths in the Shrine of La Plata bid farewell praying for the blessing of the Blessed Mother, the great missionary, so that the missions become a place of encounter with one another in Jesus.Read More
SPAIN, Juan Zaforas. Dear readers of Schoenstatt.org, allow me to share a beautiful story with you that took place last weekend in a small place near Madrid (Spain).        Read More
mda. Those who attended the early Mass in the Original Shrine on 29 January 2015 were the first to hear the news of the unexpected death – possibly as a result of a heart attack – of Hildegard C. Hug, graphic artist and co-founder of Schoenstatt-tv. Fr Egon M. Zillekens, who was the celebrant at this Mass, which he offered up for her, was informed by Hildegard’s brother, Johannes M. Hug, a Brother of Mary.  Read More
PARAGUAY, dequeni. Just like every year, Dequení is carrying out Colonias de Vacaciones [Vacation Colonies] in the projects, so that children can occupy their free time during this season with dance, sports, and computer science. There is time for games and entertainment for the youngest ones with support from the kindergarten teachers.Read More
ITALY, rd/mda. On Tuesday, January 27th, at 4:00 p.m., in the Frascati Cathedral, Bishop D. Faffaello Martinelli conducted the official opening of the cause of beatification and canonization of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The ceremony could be followed online.  Read More
mda. A quiet day this 20 January 2015, “without the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world, without cameras and transmission systems”, as Monsignor Peter Wolf, Rector General of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, put it during his homily on 20 January in the Church of the Blessed Trinity on Mount Schoenstatt. He invited those present “to look back at the great days of the Jubilee” with the eyes of Fr Kentenich, “and to place them in the light of the Second Milestone”. The Jubilee showed that “theRead More
SPAIN, Father Jaime Vivancos. For another year, the Schoenstatt pioneers and allies from Madrid organized a Christmas campaign that joined the pilgrims and families around the Shrines of Pozuelo and Serrano, and also the students and families of Colegio Monte Tabor [Mount Tabor School] with the goal of providing a ray of hope in the form of a box of food for Christmas to families and people, who are alone and who go daily to the social dining hall in Mósteles, a suburb of Madrid.Read More

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SCHOENSTATT, mda. In the Bonn Cathedral, a basilica built on the tombs of the martyrs Cassius and Florentius of the Theban Legion, there is a city manger; it represents the birth of Christ in a refugee tent with the city of Bonn in the background. It is there almost like a foreign presence like a challenge and a questioning the willingness of people to welcome refugees, Schumacher, the dean of the city, explained on the internet web page of the cathedral of Bonn. An angel holds a sign on highRead More