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BRAZIL, Sister M. Nilza P. da Silva. Have you thought about making a reservation for the great Jubilee 2014? That is what it is about. The National Headquarters of Advisers of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement of Brazil has just launched the Matercard.        Read More
SCOTLAND, Eileen and John Shalloo/mcb. Eileen and John Shalloo, members of the Schoenstatt Family of Scotland, have discovered their mission in preparation for Jubilee 2014. Together with some others they want to be “Praying Hands” …          Read More
Mercedes Fellner. July 8th is the anniversary of Father Joseph Kentenich's priestly ordination. One year ago, the Schoenstatt Movement celebrated the centenary of the priestly ordination of its founder on a worldwide level in Schoenstatt, in Limburg, in the Shrines, and cathedrals all around the world. In the Year of the Father Current, the first year of the triennium of the preparation for 2014, "we want this day to be very special," as they say in Paraguay. It is the reason to express gratitude for hisRead More
UNITED STATES, Susana Borrego. More than seven years ago, the Blessed Mother came to my home in Charlotte, North Carolina. I did not know her name, and after some time, I did not know what to call her.        Read More
Mircia C. Botano. Once again, on the first Saturday of the month, another live transmission (or a taped one for those who are not so heroic) of the Mass "toward 2014." Once more it is this magic moment of bonding with an almost unknown country, with brothers/sisters in the Covenant, who live so far away and yet only a distance of a "My Queen, my Mother" away. It is once more time to pray for the intentions of the Schoenstatt Family and to feel that gift of internationality, a giftRead More
ECUADOR, Ma. Cecilia Avilés/Ma. Elena Vilches. The Father's Home for the World Family experienced heavenly moments in the Shrine of Guayaquil when the Father Symbol that Father Kentenich gave to the Schoenstatt family passed into the hands of the Family from Brazil.        Read More

Posted On 06.07.2011In Covenant Life

My day in Schoenstatt

mkf. Last week Patricia Fernández from Costa Rica had the grace of being in Schoenstatt for 48 hours after visiting her family in Croatia; it was quite a pilgrimage. She has known about Schoenstatt for a year, and she belongs to one of the Family Work groups in her country. A few days after returning to Costa Rica, she sent a testimony to our international web- page.      Read More
Dr. Alicja Kostka. The decision to stop Joseph Engling's process for the moment has caused some consternation among his devotees. The group of people who are responsible for the homepage www.engling.pl have even asked whether this information should be publicised.      Read More
ROME, mkf. The Postulator for Joseph Engling's process of beatification, Fr Jan Korycki SAC, has passed on information that will be published today in a circular letter from the Josef Engling Secretariat. The process in Rome has been stopped for the time being.      Read More

Posted On 05.07.2011In Uncategorized

A Story from the Shrine in Scotland

SCOTLAND, John Burns. Jim, when he worked in Industry, ran his own business and he was known as a man who usually got what he wanted. Jim has now retired and is not in the greatest of health, but he is still getting results. Big Jim was a man to be reckoned with and this is his story - a story of the grace of the shrine. Jim was a local businessman who had carried out some building work for the Sisters of Mary at Campsie Glen, Lennoxtown, Scotland. HeRead More