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mkf. The torch of Jubilee 2014 - one of the one hundred torches lighted in the opening of the triennium toward 2014 on October 17, 2010, is burning in Panama. On his fist visit to the Original Shrine at the beginning of May, Father Rómulo Aguilar, along with pilgrims from Panama, joined the large pilgrimage toward the centenary of the Covenant of Love on behalf of the Schoenstatt Family from his country.    Read More
SPAIN, Vilma and Carlos Medina. The Pilgrim Auxiliary of the Campaign travels through Spain, and a current emerged during the meeting of the coordinators of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign of Spain. The current is that in preparation for the crowning in the year 2012, the bishops of all the dioceses where the Campaign is present are invited to crown this picture as a way of preparation for the crowning that will be carried out in 2012 in Germany. May 22nd, it was in Barcelona, in June it willRead More
USA, Carlos Cantú. High gasoline prices and a bus with a tire-problem did not deter the approximately 400 pilgrims from attending their yearly pilgrimage from the Diocese of Brownsville to the CONFIDENTIA SHRINE in Rockport/Lamar, Texas. This is a long-standing tradition from the Diocese of Brownsville in Texas, USA. The Diocese of Brownsville is the southernmost diocese which borders with Mexico. The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary worked in this diocese from 1959 to 1971. They did an excellent job in fostering the Schoenstatt spirituality among the people. It is approximatelyRead More
SPAIGN, Benjamín Paz Vermal. My name is Benjamin Paz Vermal, and I'm from Tucumán, Argentina. I belong to the Schoenstatt Boys' Youth, and right now, I'm a permanent volunteer for World Youth Day.        Read More
CHILE, María Eugenia Guerrero, Denise Ganderats. On May 20th and 21st, the Schoenstatt Movement celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Shrine of Montahue in Concepción with immense joy and gratitude.        Read More
USA, Sr. Mary Kate Wolf and Sr. M. Angela Macari. On Saturday, May 21st, the MTA took up residence at Sacred Heart Parish on Staten Island, New York, in the form of a beautiful wayside shrine. It was given as a gift from the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary to the Sacred Heart priests and parishioners as an expression of gratitude of belonging to the Parish for forty years. Mr. Mark Rockers – a Movement member from Minnesota– made the wayside shrine. Above the MTA picture is a Father-Eye commemorating theRead More
mkf. "You do not know the surprise we had on our pilgrimage to the Holy Land when we saw the picture of the MTA in one of the grottos in Bethlehem!" Hildegard Beck, from the Our Lady of Schoenstatt Institute, is one of the most faithful participants of the "Covenant Mass" on the way to 2014, and cannot keep from expressing her joy for being there shortly after this experience in the Mass "in covenant with Israel!" (even though Bethlehem is in the autonomous territory of Palestine, it isRead More
ARGENTINA, Beatriz Balsa. On May 11th, children, families, and teachers of the Father Joseph Kentenich Kindergarten in La Plata, Argentina, presented a crown to the Blessed Mother in the kindergarten's wayside shrine.        Read More
USA, Harry Weaver. Late at night on Saturday May 7th, 2011, around twenty young men from the University of Texas at Austin were celebrating Mass in the Schoenstatt Shrine in San Antonio, Texas during their closing retreat of the spring semester. As several of the University Men’s Branch members were saying their goodbyes during Mass, the retreat seemed to be coming to an end. However, the next day had much more in store for eleven of its members. On Sunday May 8th in the Shrine, those eleven members sealed theirRead More
USA, Catherine Johnson. Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign members gathered recently at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to honor our Blessed Mother at a special "Honor Mary, Our Queen, Our Mother" celebration.      Read More