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mkf. Schoenstatt is filling up with pilgrims during this month of September, a few days before the anniversary of Father Kentenich’s death, on September 15th, 41 years ago. The arrival of the pilgrimages from Brazil and Argentina are awaited. During this weekend and the coming week, several important events will also take place around the Shrines and wayside shrines throughout the world…Read More
mkf. All the Branches from the Diocese of Tucumán have it, just like Costa Rica and very soon Australia will also have it. Mexico has ten and South Africa has six, Rosario, in Argentina is waiting for it, meanwhile Buenos Aires and La Plata already have it. Brazil has it, Germany also has it, and it has already arrived in Rome. It crosses borders and awakens the same symptoms in each sphere. We’re not talking about a new virus, although it is as contagious as aRead More
mkf. It was an intense time, a time of many personal experiences, events and a time to obtain new understanding for the almost 400 members of the Apostolic Schoenstatt Federations of whom the last were returning to their home countries at the beginning of this week. On August 20, 1919, a group of youths founded the “Apostolic Federation” at Horde in the city of Dortmund. Upon this foundation, throughout the years, all of the communities of the Schoenstatt Work developed, not only the six Federations – ofRead More
BURUNDI, Fr. Deogratias Maruhukiro. Three weeks have passed since the event that will go down in history of  Schoenstatt in Burundi and beyound. On Saturday 15 August, Mount Sion ggkungu in Bujumbura  was overflowing with a crowd of people who came for the feast of the crowning of the Blessed Mother as the Queen of Peace and Reconciliation. Not just a feast like many others in the course of the years...Read More
ARGENTINA, Susana Hernández. During the same weekend as the blessing of the first Shrine in Croatia and the Night at the Shrine in Schoenstatt, The Schoenstatt Diocesan Conference took place in Pehuajó, Argentina with the presence of Father Guillermo Cassone. The communities of Trenque Lauquen, Henderson, Nueve de Julio, Bragado, and for the first time, the city of Lincoln traveled to Pehuajó, where the Schoenstatt Family prepared everything to cordially welcome their brothers and sisters.  Read More
P. Heinrich Walter. The General Congress of the Schoenstatt Fathers, elected the members of the General Council. At the General Chapter in 2003, The Superior General, and the leader of the free communities were electend for a 12-year-term, the other councilors for a six-year-term.  Read More
CROATIA, Xenia Schmidlin: On August 22nd, the blessing ceremony of the first Schoenstatt Shrine existing in the country took place in Mala Subotica, Croatia. Many came to participate in this great event among them were pilgrim cyclists, from Austria, and the Schoenstatt Family from Hungary, Romania, Germany, and a large group from Switzerland; and of course, the Croatian Schoenstatt Family who had sacrificed for many years through prayers and having had the desire to build this Shrine. The dream became a reality on the Feast of the QueenshipRead More
ARGENTINA, Silvia Losada. On August 23rd, the missionaries from Tucumán renewed their commitment to the mission at the Shrine of Tucumán. Although Spring is still a month away, a warm and brilliant day welcomed the people who arrived from Santiago del Estero to join the large annual celebration of the Tucumán Rosary Campaign.Read More
BRAZIL, Sister M. Silvana Pin. “In truth, you deserved the crown, deserved it to the fullest!” This sentiment was shared by all of Schoenstatt’s sons and daughters who participated in the solemn celebration of praise for the Queen of Heroic Child-likeness on 20.08.2009. The 60th jubilee of the crowning by our father and founder in 1949 united the Schoenstatt Family in Santa Maria in an uninterrupted chain of prayer.Read More
MEXICO, Joche and Yvonne Kaitimi. During a very touching ceremony, five families had the great gift of being called by God and the Blessed Mother to be the founding families of the Schoenstatt Institute of Families in Mexico by beginning the first course of the Novitiate.Read More