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 is
Read 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 their
Read 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 mkf. "Congratulations, I was waiting for that address!" writes Father Pedro Kuhlcke from Paraguay on Facebook. "That" address is www.schoenstatt.org which was presented to the international public on May 8th - with a renewed design, new offerings, renewed technology, a new legally responsible group (Team 2014), and the same spirit and the same team of collaborators from the previous webpage.
Read More mkf. Continuously, there is someone who asks - with interest, with compassion, skepticism, with caution - : is the preparation for 2014 coming along OK? Since last week, one can respond: not only is it coming along OK, it's on wheels…..train and bus wheels! On April 26th, the following representatives met with Dr. Berthold Link, general manager of Team 2014: the pool of those interested in the train traffic from the North of the Rhineland (SPNV - Nord, because of its German acronymns), the association of public
Read More USA, Belsay Henning. The first pilgrimage to Way to the Merciful Father Shrine in the city of Miami was held with the motto: "Mary Mother of Mercy." The Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign from southern Florida organized the first pilgrimage to the recently consecrated Shrine in Miami.
Read More PARAGUAY, Ricardo Acosta. Since the beginning of the year, one of the projects that the Boys' Group meeting in Tupãrenda wanted to carry out was the Holy Week Missions. Taking the Blessed Mother to Nueva Italia in the community of Isla Guavira about forty kms from Asunción was the goal.
Read More mkf. Wednesday, May 4th, a sunny day around the Original Shrine and only a handful of people were witnesses of an historic moment. By coincidence, some members of the Schoenstatt Family from Trier who were praying in the Original Shrine; through the invitation, some Ecuadorians and Fr. Egon Zillekens, and of course the protagonists of this event: Sister Marion McClay, general coordinator of the worldwide pilgrimage of the Father Symbol, Sister M. Michela, representative of the Schoenstatt Family from France, and Aquiles and Laura Guerrero, National
Read More ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa. On April 30th Bishop Carlos José Ñáñez, Archbishop of Córdoba, ordained Pablo Gerardo Perez as a priest during a very well attended ceremony, where people's faces reflected different emotions and one especially: heartfelt joy. The first and very well attended Mass of the newly ordained priest was celebrated the following morning in the Schoenstatt Shrine of Solidarity in Villa Warcalde.
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