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VATICAN, Juan Barbosa • Many times, we have needed information on the various topics of family, couples, or different groups in the life of spiritual growth and… How difficult it was for us to get resources! Today we have, just a click away, a lot of very useful material that undoubtedly allows us to introduce ourselves in different topics with the certainty that they are correct (which is not a small thing…). — Speaking about its origin So often we find something and then doubt its certainty… From today, withRead More
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ITALY, Vanda Rebuffat and Eugenio Minici • As a follow-up to the Married Couples’ Coffee (which we spoke about earlier), in which several couples from Terricciola (Pisa) participated, the couples decided to continue the journey of growth (with a view to the creation and consolidation of a community of married couples), inspired by the spirituality of the Schoenstatt Movement. On Saturday, March 16, the second meeting of the new cycle was held on the theme “United we are stronger”. The meeting, as usual, was led by two couples from theRead More
Cristo Redentor

Posted On 26.03.2024In Covenant Life

Peace in the heights

CHILE, Beatriz Letelier • Up in the mountains, high in the cordillera, peace unites two Latin American brother countries. Chile and Argentina celebrated a new anniversary of the unveiling of the monument to Christ the Redeemer, on the border between Chile and Argentina, at 3854 m above sea level, a symbol that reminds us that on March 13, 1904, 120 years ago, peace and friendship were sealed between the two countries. — Chileans and Argentineans, mainly, have been going up to Christ the Redeemer on the third Saturday of MarchRead More
Martha Liotti
ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer • “Without a doubt, it was a powerful experience that was given to the Blessed Mother in the light of my faith,” wrote Martha Liotti on the day of the blessing of the Schoenstatt Shrine in Corrientes. “It is with great emotion that I remember the beginnings of the modality for babies and children at risk, represented in the Shrine by the only white cross, a testimony of the faith of the parents of Ezequiel, a little angel who accompanies us every day”. The Shrine was erectedRead More
Wie politisch soll Schönstatt, soll Kirche sein?
GERMANY, Renate Siebenkäs •  The Covenant Celebration on the Marienberg on the eve of the Feast of St. Joseph, traditionally is always a celebration with St. Joseph… But with Diocesan President Martin Emge, one should not expect a sermon that will make you lean back in your pew. I would give this covenant celebration the title: How political can/should/must the Schoenstatt Movement be? Did Father Kentenich want a Movement that withdraws into the Shrine in prayer? Personally, I have finally been awakened to associate politics with Schoenstatt. It is beautifulRead More
Huerta Casa del Niño
ARGENTINA, Juan Diego Stellatelli • The vegetable garden at Casa del Niño is beginning to bear fruit. The first squashes have already been prepared in our kitchen. — What are the benefits of a vegetable garden for the children? It promotes teamwork, cooperation and camaraderie, patience, perseverance and a sense of responsibility. It promotes an awareness of life. Children realize that a plant needs care, attention, waiting, development, and a process to finally produce a final result (flower, vegetable, fruit). It stimulates the senses as they learn through touch, smell,Read More
San Pedro
HOLY YEAR 2025, editorial team  •  “The Jubilee has always been an event of great spiritual, ecclesial, and social significance in the life of the Church,” writes Pope Francis, 2022, in proclaiming the Holy Year 2025. ” Ever since 1300, when Boniface VIII instituted the first Holy Year – initially celebrated every hundred years, then, following its biblical precedent, every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years – God’s holy and faithful people has experienced this celebration as a special gift of grace, characterized by the forgiveness of sins andRead More
Kreuz der Einheit
GERMANY, Renate Siebenkäs •  How surprised I was when I read the article “The new Unity Cross for the Bellavista Shrine” in the WhatsApp Channel of Schoenstatt.org. At the same time, I was also working on the Unity Cross for a Liturgy of the Word, in which the 12th Station of the Way of the Cross: “Jesus dies on the Cross” was to set the mood for Good Friday. — My thoughts were inspired by the cards that were produced in 2014 as a set of cards to mark Schoenstatt’sRead More
Cristo Redentor
CHILE, Roberto Seguel • This Saturday, March 16, the 49th edition of the pilgrimage to Christ the Redeemer, on the Chile-Argentina border, called Finis Terrae, “the end of the earth”, will be held. — Inspired by the words of Mario Hiriart (1931-1964), a young consecrated layman who belonged to the Institute of Schoenstatt Brothers of Mary, we want to go on pilgrimage with him to Christ the Redeemer, making his great desire our own: “We will build a shrine in the Andes as a symbol of peace and unity ofRead More
Cruz de la Unidad
CHILE, editorial team / with Vínculo material • This year marks 75 years since Father Joseph Kentenich, on May 31, 1949, in the recently blessed Shrine of Bellavista, placed a letter on the altar of the Shrine: the first part of his response to Bishop Bernhard Stein’s report as a result of the diocesan visitation of Schoenstatt, concretely of the Institute of the Sisters of Mary. In this response, Joseph Kentenich points out the need to change the way of thinking, acting and living in the Church towards a moreRead More