Jubilee 2014 Category

mda. We are reaching the finishing line of the Jubilee – the sign was given at the evening blessing at the Original Shrine on the eve of 18 September, because the feast, as Rector Egon M. Zillekens says, begins with vespers and the evening blessing. On this occasion the volunteers for 2014 each lit a votive candle and placed them around the Original Shrine. While in Schoenstatt and around the world more and more paper is produced, and more and more commissions organise more and more, what actually matters areRead More
TEAM 2014, Clemens Mann/red. The International Pilgrimage to Schoenstatt for the 100th anniversary of the Covenant of Love is one month away. The 15th of September was the deadline to acquire tickets to participate in all the activities. Pilgrims from over fifty countries are expected; however for those who missed the deadline, there is still room and opportunity to register.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Father Javier Arteaga. There are only thirty days until the large celebration of the Schoenstatt centenary! 100 years of Covenant with Mary. 100 blessed, proven and fruitful years of service to the Church and society.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Roberto Liñares, Claudia Echenique. An unforgettable night enkindled the soul and spirit of the Schoenstatt Family of the Buenos Aires Region. On Tuesday, the 26th of August, nine dioceses (from Zarate- Campana to La Plata) commemorated 100 years of the Covenant with the Mother and Queen with an excellent cultural celebration in the Colón Theater, one of the best music halls in the world.Read More
CHILE, mda. Beginning this March, VINCULO, the magazine of the Chilean Schoenstatt Family will offer a type of timeline that will be published month by month about the events of 1914; it will be drafted by Sister M. Jimena Alliende. There will be events in Schoenstatt, in Germany, in Chile, and  throughout the world for which the year, 1914, was marked by the beginning of World War I, and remembered in 2014 with a multitude of publications, presentations, movies and conferences; it was the worst war of any other warRead More
SPAIN, org. In his pastoral projection for the month of July 2014, the Director of the Schoenstatt Movement in Spain, Father Carlos Padilla, offers the Schoenstatt Family of Spain and the readers of our schoenstatt.org webpage, an important and actual motivation at the service of life and of the Jubilee pilgrimage – exactly 100 days from October 18, 2014. His starting point is the Jubilee gift from the Schoenstatt Family of Spain to form a web of living shrines, a web of life, a missionary web. “During this month weRead More
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique. The youths from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region joined the Shrines of San Isidro, Villa Ballester, Belgrano, Confidentia, Sión, Nuevo Schoenstatt and La Plata in 100 km pilgrimage that lasted 3 days and which they called “Schoenstatt 100k – 100 – 100 km”. It was held August 15-18 and youths from the communities of Confidentia, Villa Ballester, Bella Vista, San Isidro, La Plata, Paraná, Belén de Escobar, Florencio Varela and Salta participated.Read More
AUSTRALIA, Bernard Toutounji. The Schoenstatt Movement in Australia – as part of their gift to Father Kentenich for the Centenary - recently concluded a series of formation days, the final theme on Father Kentenich’s role as the third contact point in the Covenant of Love. The Australian Schoenstatt Family has been offering formation days over the past couple of years in an attempt to form leaders for the Australian Church and Movement.Read More
JUBILEE ROME, Rosana Silva/mda. Since the beginning of the world, we human beings have been searching for paths: be it the way to happiness, a way to change one’s life, a path which is deeply connected with the desire of my own heart to expose a reality which is within me and which only I myself can feel. In this year of the Jubilee Celebration (1914 – 2014), God calls us to travel the way of the Jubilee together. Schoenstatt, through its children, is traveling this road that becomesRead More
Fr Hans Peter Lechler. During our Jubilee Year 2014 we want to touch and re-live Schoenstatt's origins in an effective way. It was very similar eighty years ago. In 1934 the decision was taken to look for the remains of the Hero Sodalists, Hans Wormer and Max Brunner, who had fallen in battle, and to bring them back to Schoenstatt where they would be re-buried in the shadow of the shrine. Essentially this was due to the initiative of Fr Alex Menningen who had been appointed Spiritual Director of theRead More