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GERMANY/PARAGUAY, org. Touched: a very mild expression to describe the reaction of Rosa Merlo Faella, who is charge of collecting funds for Dequeni . Shortly before Christmas she received 1,115 € from Germany (or: 20 scholarships, which means that 20 needy children can go to school for a year and will be off the street); she was also impressed by the article published on schoenstatt.org about the children's choir from Karlsruhe undertaken endeavor with which they had contributed the major part of this donation (650 €Read More

Posted On January 19, 2012 In Jubilee 2014

Covenant Life

PARAGUAY, Oscar Saldivar. We celebrated one more anniversary of the Covenant of Love with Mary on October 18th since that first Covenant that Father Kentenich and the first young men made with Mary in the "little chapel." This was the 97th anniversary! We have certainly have kept our own Covenant of Love with Mary, this Covenant sealed with her on that day of grace.      Read More
P. José María García. "The pilgrim people follow the footsteps of Mary," a phrase Blessed John Paul II pronounced on the eve of the great Jubilee of Redemption in the Holy Year 2000. In its simplicity and strength, it awakens a certain nostalgia, awakening in the soul impressions of the atmosphere of pilgrimage: of joy, simplicity, hymns and prayers, shared faith, common testimony, of paths, effort and joyful tiredness, of brotherhood, and especially the way to the Shrine. The pilgrimage -a universal religious experience - is closelyRead More

Posted On January 16, 2012 In Jubilee 2014

Toward 2014: In Covenant with Poland

org. On January 7th, the Original Shrine was still sparkling with Christmas ornaments when Fathers Heinrich Walter and José María García entered to celebrate the first "Toward 2014" Holy Mass for 2012. This Mass was being celebrated in Covenant with Poland, a country with a long Christian tradition and with many painful experiences; a country with a center filled with life: the Shrine of the "Black Virgin" in Cestahowa as Father Heinrich Walter highlighted in his introduction.    Read More
Agathe Hug/org. How big would a candle be if all the world's schoenstatters added a drop of wax for each contribution to the capital of grace melting them together into a single candle for a year? One comes up with a question like this when one thinks of Portugal, because the Portuguese Schoenstatt Family did this. On April 18, 2010, they celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Schoenstatt`s presence in Portugal. On this occasion they gathered, in the country's four shrines, drops of wax as a symbol for each contributionRead More