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Posted On 25.01.2012In Uncategorized

Towards 2014: in Covenant with Puerto Rico

org. A date no one wanted to miss: At exactly one thousand days to October 18, 2014, the doors of the Original Shrine were opened for the Iberian-American Tertiary of the Schoenstatt Fathers and for a dozen Schoenstatters for the celebration of the Holy Mass "toward 2014", in covenant with Puerto Rico. Just like the previous Saturday, Father Raúl Espina was the celebrant for this early morning Mass on January 21st, and the seminarians provided the songs and the petitions for the offertory.  Read More
Agathe Hug. A strange atmosphere spread through Schoenstatt in the days following the news that Fr Jonathan Niehaus had been called to his eternal home. On the one hand, it was marked by a certain relief that he had been released from his pain and suffering, and is now in the glory of God in our eternal Schoenstatt. We can imagine in very human terms how the Blessed Mother, our Father and Founder and all "Schoenstatt saints" welcomed him home.  Read More

Posted On 24.01.2012In Covenant Life

Preparing the heart

ECUADOR, Javier Lucin. The Ecuadoran Schoenstatt Family prepare hearts for celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Blessing of the Guayaquil Shrine with the motto: Father's Family-hearth for the world." They will do so with a day of continuous Adoration in the Shrine on behalf of all the communities with many offerings to the capital of grace made with actual visits to the Shrine and praying the "We go to the Shrine" novena.    Read More
org. "Good day to everyone, happy Covenant Day!" It is so easy. Three phrases in English, German, and Spanish, and the world is not only in the Original Shrine spiritually, but rather, personally at home, at home on this first Covenant Day of 2012. The Holy Mass is transmitted very early in the morning month by month to the entire world through schoenstatt-tv as it has been done for more than one year. Father Andrew Pastore, a Schoenstatt Father from England and four other Schoenstatt Fathers, whoRead More
Alicja Kostka. The 1,000 days until the 2014 Jubilee threshold will be crossed on January 21, 2012! Every day an invitation to contribute to our MTA's Capital of Grace is as multifaceted and different as are those who have sealed their Covenant with the Mother Thrice Admirable.        Read More
Father Javier Arteaga. Every year we recall that January 20, 1942, when Father Kentenich, who was jailed in Koblenz as a prisoner of the Nazi regimen, decided not to sign a petition for a medical examination, which could have prevented him from being transferred to a concentration camp. In March he was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he remained as a prisoner in inhumane conditions for three and a half years. He offered his "exterior" freedom for the "inner" freedom of his Schoenstatt Family. Read More
USA, Marge Fenelon. The SchoenstattMovement in Milwaukee is organizing a Eucharistic Vigil to be held in the Shrines throughout the country during the funeral and burial of Fr. Jonathan  Niehaus (Monday, January 23) so that those who cannot attend the funeral may still accompany Fr. Jonathan and the Niehaus Family spiritually.      Read More
Fr. Heinrich Walter. Fr. Jonathan Niehaus (51), from Ivanhoe, MN, USA,  has been called home by God the merciful Father, after his battle with lung cancer. He consciously lived and offered the last phase of his life.        Read More
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER 2014/Fr. José María García. There is only a few days left until we cross the 1000 day threshold (as can be witnessed on the countdown clocks on some of our Schoenstatt websites) on our international pilgrimage toward the jubilee of the Covenant of Love, from the great moment of grace, October 18, 2014, in the Original Shrine, in Rome, and - as it is stated in the Message 2014: in "… a world-wide live link to the celebration held at our place of origin. In this way, theRead More
ARGENTINA, Sister Elsa María/org. During the first week of January, the Father Symbol traveled through three dioceses in Argentina: Oberá, Santo Tomé (Ituzaingó), and Posadas.        Read More