Jubilee 2014 Category

TEAM2014, Alice Gamper. The first volunteers have already arrived to help in the preparations for the Jubilee 2014. Five volunteers are here from different countries: Ester from Spain, Simone and Katrin from Germany, Alice from Hungary, and Wayne from the USA. Later on, many more volunteers will arrive from Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador for instance.Read More

Posted On 18.02.2014In Jubilee 2014

Missionary Joy

ORTUGAL, Fr. José Melo. “The Gospel joy which enlivens the community of disciples is a missionary joy1." These words by Pope Francis which express the heart of the message in his apostolic exhortation - The Joy of the Gospel - once again calls the Schoenstatt Movement to live the true spirit of the Jubilee.  Read More
CHILE, Cristina Quiroz de Tagle. It is beautiful to see the different celebrations in so many countries. The opening of the Jubilee Year was celebrated with so much fervor! Different kinds of news arrived, all of which showed their unconditional love for the Blessed Mother, their faith in the blessings that emerge from their Shrine and the gratitude to our Father and Founder for the daring step that he took to invite the Virgin to establish herself in the Shrine. There is also gratitude for the heroicRead More
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique. Jubilee Hymn 2014 was presented to the world on October 18, 2013, at the beginning of the Jubilee year. The song "Your Covenant - Our Mission" was chosen among all the ones that were presented to Team 2014 from different countries. Its authors Sister María Pilar Carrère ( text ) and Sister María Magdalena Viñas (music), live in New Schoenstatt, Florencio Varela, Argentina. This song has a brief history that just came to light a few weeks ago.Read More
BRAZIL, Sr. M. Nilza. In an interview for 2014, Fr. Alexandre Awi, the National Director for the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement, speaks about the Year of Grace, the centenary of the Covenant of Love: "Schoenstatt is a movement that was born to be apostolic. It was created to be missionary. It is, therefore, a Movement that goes out onto the streets; a child of war, that goes into the battlefield, goes out into that which the Holy Father has repeatedly described as 'existential peripheries'. In his apostolic exhortation,Read More
SPAIN, org. In his pastoral projection for the month of January 2014, the Director of the Schoenstatt Movement in Spain, Father Carlos Padilla, offers the Spanish Schoenstatt Family and all visitors to the schoenstatt.org webpage, an important and actual stimulus for the service of life and for the Jubilee Pilgrimage.  His starting point is the Jubilee gift from the Schoenstatt Family in Spain to form a web of living shrines, a web of life, a missionary web.  He connects it to the anniversary of the 20th of January –Read More
Fr Hans Peter Lechler. The feast of the Holy Family makes it clear that Christmas is not just a family celebration for "social" and emotional reasons. This is all the more true of our Schoenstatt Family! Already in the early years in Schoenstatt the sodalists of the Marian Sodality – that is, those who were unable to go home in the Christmas holidays – tried through their behaviour and their contributions to the Christmas celebrations to create a family. In addition, their Spiritual Director, Fr Kentenich, showed them the spiritualRead More
Fr. Andrew Pastore. A new edition of the official 2014 newsletter "Towards 2014" has been sent out. If you know anybody who does not yet receive it - forward it! Find the earlier newsletters searching the category "2014", also in the news archive. {countdown}Read More
SPAIN, Fr. Carlos Padilla. A plenary indulgence is a grace from God, an expression of his mercy. God reaches down to raise up fallen man, thus restoring him. Through the indulgence, the Church helps us to touch God's merciful heart. It is a grace that He gives us how to teach us to walk. A mystery. A plenary indulgence is not a right, but we can embrace it with a simple and joyful heart, accepting this as a gift that works for our benefit. We can only receive this graceRead More
Fr. Andrew Pastore. A  new edition of the official 2014 newsletter "Towards 2014" has been sent out. If you know anybody who does not yet receive it - forward it! Find the earlier newsletters searching the category "2014", also in the news archive. {countdown}Read More