Yearly Archives: "2017"

PARAGUAY, Agr. Eng. Martin Pereira Ortiz • At present the entire world is experiencing climate change, heat or cold spikes, hurricanes, violent rain, hailstorms, or prolonged droughts are happening more often. These natural disasters increase as a result of the imbalance we cause, or being realistic, what we previously called weather phenomena will be natural disasters in the future. In Paraguay, a small country of South America, a group of Agricultural Engineers, all of them Schoenstatters, united to contribute our knowledge, our hands and above all our covenant culture, toRead More
ARGENTINA, Lilita and Carlos Ricciardi • On Covenant Day, Monday, 18 December, in the Shrine of Father’s Liberation, in La Plata, Argentina, a prayer chain began for the Argentinean Marian Family Missions of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement. These will be carried out in Ranchos, Province Buenos Aires, from the 21 to 28 of January 2018, with families who belong to the Diocesan Family of La Plata and have 20 years of missionary experience, and in Seguí, Province Entre Ríos from the 22 to 28 Jaunuary 2018, with families who belongRead More
Fr. Guillermo Carmona • Soon we will begin the time of Advent[1].  The Virgin is on the way.  She is like a closed ciborium filled with the Lord.  Nobody knows it, only Joseph, her cousin, Elizabeth and her husband Zachary, and perhaps a few more. The rest of humanity and the Jews at the time were unaware; they were unaware of the mystery gestating in her womb, so there will be no room for them in Bethlehem.  How unfortunate to not discover the presence of God when He comes toRead More
Maria Fischer • The small home printer could not keep up with all the many emails that came in the last week of Advent– let us remember that schoenstatt.org has no headquarters or office. So on 18, 19, 20 of December, a partial delivery of all these letters sent to the MTA in the Original Shrine was made filling the jar to the brim They came especially from Latin America – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, México, and Panamá – but also from the United States, Spain,Read More
“Where God is born, hope is born. He brings hope. Where God is born, peace is born.” Pope Francis          Read More
COLOMBIA, Carlos Aranguren • During these days we celebrated Fr. Humberto Salgado’s fifteen years as adviser in Colombia with a very important event:  the founding of the first group of members of the Family Branch (assuming a higher degree of commitment, rights and obligations) in Bogotá. In the year 2002, Fr. Humberto arrived to Colombia as adviser to the Schoenstatt Movement, along with Sr. Eugenia María Muñoz. These fifteen years have borne fruit with the acquisition of the headquarters for the Movement in Bogotá, and the sealing of the commitmentRead More
GERMANY, Renate Immler • For a long time it was just a dream, however the readers of schoenstatt.org already know what happens to the dreams of the Kentenich School in Kempten-Leubas. One day they come true, usually more quickly than we expected and often more fully than we could have imagined possible. It was a dream – to have a real stage for the Josef Kentenich School. Now it is there! It was financed by donations and built by volunteers. It was fittingly inaugurated by the Theater-AG with the playRead More
PARAGUAY, Marcos Bogado • On Sunday, 3 December 2017 there was a historic event in the Shrine of Tupãrenda, the first covenant of love of diocesan seminarians in Paraguay. Marcos Bogado had participated in the Catholic University Missions, and then in the Boys’ Youth. This year he entered the Seminary for the Archdiocese of Asunción, and there the Blessed Mother used him to touch many hearts…   This process developed at the beginning of the year in the “San José” National Major Seminary, with headquarters in Caacupé, when the BlessedRead More
BRAZIL, Karen Bueno • Imagine that you live in Manaos/AM and you want to acquire a “little green book” of the Mother and Queen: the closest Daughter Shrine is approximately two thousand kilometers away.  Or, if you are in Campo Grande/MS and want to give a “Materttone” to a friend on Christmas: it would take more than 600 kilometers by car to obtain one. You do not have to go far…the simple fact of having to face the traffic and congestion could make the visit to the closest store very difficult.Read More
URUGUAY, Juan Andrés Nopitsch • The Providencia Educational Center in Montevideo, Uruguay, a great project of the Schoenstatt Movement in this country, concluded the first year of the implementation of the Responsible Education program of the Fundación Botín. This program offers tools to the educators to work on the healthy growth of the students, enhancing their talents and creativity, as well as their communication and sharing skills, to help them to be happy, autonomous and competent in solidarity. Preparing for responsible education       The joint road began in October 2016.Read More