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ECUADOR, Walter Jara Arroba. "Building a Holy Ecuador with Christ and Mary," was the motto that accompanied the sixth university missions organized by the Schoenstatt Youth from Guayaquil. Five invited families and more than eighty youth, some who participate in Schoenstatt, participated in these missions. They had a special feel this time, since it would be the third and final year that the youth would mission at the Ahuano Parish in the Amazon province of Napo. After this year, the Blessed Mother will guide these missionary youth toRead More
mkf. The other day, really bad news came in: myphotolbum.com, the photo sharing site that we have used for six years for our Schoenstatt Photo albums, will shut down by the end of May. This will mean broken links in hundreds of articles on this page, and the loss of all the albums and their photos on the photo album site. This is not a hoax but sad reality.    Read More
ITALY, Federico Bauml. Holy Week 2011. Fifteen missionaries in San Giorgio Lucano for an extraordinary Easter in the ordinary.          Read More
ROME, Amelia Peirone. On the Friday prior to Palm Sunday, there was a lot of hustle and bustle in St. Peter's Square. Some were rehearsing parts of the liturgy which they would either have to read or reenact on Sunday. Others, youths with an enormous cross - the one at St. Lorenzo Center, chapel and crypt which John Paul II gave to the youths as a place for gathering and prayer, very close to the Vatican - were probably preparing to begin the stations of the cross. Read More
ROME, Alan Shaun Cabello. Friday evening, tired and finally home from work I sit to browse through the local newspaper. As I open it, I see in the first page the picture of a man who I had the fortune of seeing twice. A man that some how manages to touch deep into my soul in such a way, that seeing his picture makes a tear form in the corner of my eye, John Paul II. I read as much as I can manage from the French written newspaper aboutRead More
INTERNATIONAL, mkf. Holy Cross Family Ministries invite youth and all people with youthful hearts to join in a worldwide campaign of prayer, FIRM IN FAITH WITH MARY, praying the Rosary for World Youth Day on Saturdays from the beginning of May until WYD takes place in August.The initiator and Director of Holy Cross Family Ministries, Fr. James Phalan, who recently visited Schoenstatt to entrust this campaign to Our Lady of Schoenstatt, says: "With your help and the help of others in the Church throughout the world, we have, through God'sRead More
PERU, Queca Espinoza. It was the final days of December 2010 and upon returning from Sunday Mass at the Schoenstatt Shrine in La Molina, Lima, Mr. And Mrs. Chang and Queca, who belongs to the Ladies' Branch, conversed in their Home shrine as they looked at a book about the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of Schoenstatt in Ecuador when they found a photo of Sister Petra. They asked themselves: what if we invite her to come to Peru to have her tell about the experiences she had withRead More
USA, Dustin Smerek. On the solemn day of Good Friday, 15 courageous men from the Schoenstatt University Men (SUM) of Austin, along with their spiritual director, decided to offer a heroic capital of grace for their striving for the Unity Cross, which is to find a permanent home in the future Austin Schoenstatt Shrine: Bethlehem, Cradle of Sanctity. The capital of grace consisted of a first-ever pilgrimage beginning from the heart of the UT campus, the University of Texas Tower, and finding completion at the heart of the Schoenstatt MovementRead More
BURUNDI, Sister M. Béatrice Kagimbi. On April 18th and 19th, the Schoenstatt Family in Burundi bid farewell to the Father Symbol that is on pilgrimage throughout the world in preparation for 2014 with a very animated celebration. During the past weeks, the Father Symbol has visited Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. On the afternoon of April 19th, the African sun illuminated the Father Symbol for the last time and made it shine. Then Sister M. Jeanine boarded a plane and returned the Father Symbol to Schoenstatt, where itRead More

Posted On 26.04.2011In Uncategorized

The Father Symbol Visits Rwanda

BURUNDI/RWANDA, Sr. M. Béatrice Kagimbi. The Father Symbol arrived in Burundi as it continues its international pilgrimage. During its time in Burundi, it will also visit some of the neighbouring countries where the Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement is present. On 3-5 March, 125 pilgrims accompanied the Father Symbol during its visit to Kibeho - a well-known place of pilgrimage in Rwanda where Our Lady appeared as "Mother of the Word" - before going on to Butare.    Read More