Monthly Archives: "March 2015"

Posted On 17.03.2015In Original Shrine

The MTA among the mud

Bernadette and Norbert Weweler. After Jubilee celebrations, the pilgrim area behind the Original Shrine quite literally turned to mud. The protective netting and a lot of the sawdust over the grass more or less kept the pilgrims' feet dry. After the celebrations, the state of the field inspired a homily in the Pilgrim Church.Read More

Posted On 17.03.2015In Francis - Message

Old age “also contains a grace and a mission, a true vocation”

The value and importance of grandparents in the family was the theme of Pope Francis' catechesis at last Wednesday's general audience in St. Peters Square. First of all, Pope Francis said that he identified with the elderly because he is the same age as them. "When I was in the Philippines," he said jokingly, "the Filipino people greeted me, saying: 'Lolo Kiko,' – that is, Grandfather Francis," and emphasized that even though society has a tendency of casting aside the elderly, God doesn't do this. On the contrary, he callsRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Holy Year of Mercy – Challenge of covenant culture

VATICAN, Sr. M. Elizabet Parodi. I've just returned from St. Peter's Basilica. It was packed, as it always is when the Holy Father celebrates a liturgy. Today, two years since he started his pontificate, Pope Francis presided over a penitential liturgy. During the homily, in which he spoke about how God never tires of forgiving us, he announced that he had made a decision: with words that seemed to come from the depths of his heart he said that he was proclaiming a 'Holy Year of Mercy' which will beginRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Covenant solidarity with Francis

Two years with Francis – in covenant solidarity

org. How does Francis celebrate the anniversary of his election? By hearing confessions. On Friday 13 March, Pope Francis presided over a penitential celebrations in St. Peter's Basilica to begin the "24 hours for the Lord," promoted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation. It is an invitation to the Church everywhere in the world and the motto this year is "God rich in mercy." In his Lenten Message for 2015 Pope Francis said: "Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer! TheRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Dilexit ecclesiam

Em. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch: Vision and Setting Out The Church on the Way into the Future (I)

org. "Pope Francis looks ahead and calls for a Church that sets out, because “God’s word constantly shows us how God challenges those who believe in him ‘to go forth’” (EG20). Those who only look back and want to preserve it, will lose the future. That is why our Holy Father urges us “to move from a pastoral ministry of mere conservation to a decidedly missionary pastoral ministry”." Archbishop Emeritus Robert Zollitsch from Freiburg, and Head of the German Bishops' Conference up until 2013, chose "Evangelii Gaudium" as the themeRead More
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Posted On 14.03.2015In Kentenich

Lent: The journey of the seed – Part 4

Sarah-Leah Pimentel. We have spent the first three weeks of our Lenten journey examining Fr. Kentenich's metaphor for our spiritual life as a seed and exploring the qualities needed for its growth.  So far, our reflections have been on our individual spirituality.  But Fr. Kentenich's words are just as relevant in the context of Schoenstatt's spirituality, for us as an international family, a gift to the Church and society.Read More

Posted On 14.03.2015In Covenant Life

I fell in love with Mary

GUATEMALA, org. Marisabel Soto is a university student from Guatemala who fell in love with Schoenstatt, and she dreams of participating in the Movement in Guatemala.  Upon receiving her letter, the schoenstatt.org editorial team put her in contact with Father Miguel Rodríguez OSB, the initiator of Schoenstatt in Esquípulas, and who with Father Julío Celada, has placed the Schoenstatt Pilgrim MTA on pilgrimage in Alto Veracruz in the northern part of the country.  In her letter, Marisabel tells a story of encounter with Mary through Schoenstatt…and counting on the solidarityRead More

Posted On 13.03.2015In Francis - Message

How often in the Church, we have Christ inside and don’t let Him out

org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her - believers or non-believers - have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge to go out "onto theRead More

Posted On 13.03.2015In Schoenstatters

I experience him as a friend– Joseph Engling is also relevant in Schoenstatt’s second century

mda. “If things happened in similar difficult situations for Joseph Engling, then it also has to be possible for me.  And for Joseph Engling, the key thing was his personal ideal upon which he was always grounded,” someone wrote. – “Love and allowing oneself to be led by love, because in the end, love is what counts and remains.  Everything else fades, but the love is remembered.  That is what took me to Cambrai,” said another.  Two people’s testimonies who have had a profound encounter with Joseph Engling in Cambrai,Read More

Posted On 13.03.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Francis from Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer. Francisco de Buenos Aires [Francis of Buenos Aires] is a documentary that depicts the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio from the point of view of his loved ones and those who know him best.  This film will reach Argentina’s cinemas on the eve of the second anniversary of the election of the Argentinean Cardinal as Pope, and it proposes to make Pope Francis known through his life, his words, and by the testimony of those who know him best, but basically for his management during the firstRead More

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