ROME, VIS/Amelia Peirone. The Holy Father today received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He also authorised, among others, the promulgation of the decree concerning the heroic virtues of Sister M. Emilie Engel.
Read More SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. As we celebrate the Year of the Shrine current in our preparation for 2014, the Women’s League in Johannesburg has committed itself to going on pilgrimage to Africa’s first shrine. Work and personal commitments prevented the whole group from going on pilgrimage together. But each member has said that she will go in this year as her schedule allows. Four Women’s League members took advantage of a long weekend with two public holidays to make the 12-hour bus trip to Cathcart in the Eastern Cape. They
Read More María Elena Vilches/fma The Holy Mass toward 2014 in Covenant with South Korea was celebrated on May 5th, the first Saturday of the month of Mary in many countries. Presently there is no direct contact with this country, but something is clear: the Blessed Mother is there working. In Santa Maria, Brazil, they know that the Pilgrim MTA is present in South Korea, because many years ago, Bishop Wilhelm Wising took hundreds of pictures of the MTA into the country, and the English version of this website is always visited
Read More PORTUGAL, Maria de Lurdes Dias. The motivation of offering my time to translate for the International website was a desire to contribute, as a free instrument in the hands of God the Father, towards building a world where love, hope, and faith in God the Father is born every day, where we all love one another as children of the same Father and the same Mother, where we can all work towards the common good taking special care of the poor, the sick, and marginalized. Such a world is built
Read More ITALY, Maria Tedeschi. Once again, our "Madonnina" surprises us with her quiet and continuous work to conquer youthful hearts. The editorial staff of Schoenstatt.org received recently an email that we wish to share with you, as we were most impressed by it. The sender is Mirco, a young Italian of 23 years from a little village, Pioppo, in the prefecture and diocese of Monreale, in the province of Palermo, Italy. He tells us that how during the last WYD in Madrid he met a Brazilian who gifted him with a holy picture with the image
Read More GERMANY, Wolfgang Fella. The series of Sunday afternoon talks continued with a conference by Dr. Father Michael Marmann and a concert by Mrs. Gertraud Wackerbauer. This time an audience of fifty people was offered extensive musical variety and was the subject of happiness, the search for footprints, and the relationship between profession and family.
Read More Dear international Schoenstatt Family, with the expressed recommendation of the General Presidium we are sending you as an enclosure an open letter together with a reply form and a brief pictorial documentation of the construction of the International Schoenstatt Centre, Belmote, Rome.
Read More Agathe Hug/org. Late Prelate Wilhelm Wissing, who was closely united to the Schoenstatt Movement, was the person who took hundreds of pictures of the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt on his trips to South Korea and distributed them among the people. On May 5th, the Holy Mass “toward 2014” will be celebrated in Covenant with South Korea, where there is no direct contact with Schoenstatt at this time, but we are sure that the Most Holy Virgin has arrived there and She will act. In Santa Maria, Brazil they know
Read More ARGENTINA, Claudia Irusta de Lell. On April 25th, a group of missionaries from Crespo visited Aldea Santa Rosa, which is four kilometers from Crespo, where a community of German descent from Volga lives. They work in the fields.
Read More PERU, Queca Espinoza. During the recent Schoenstatt Family retreat in Lima, Fr. José Luis Correa recalled that the International Schoenstatt Family is focusing on the year of the Shrine current and that the attachment to the Shrine -essential to Schoenstatt, cannot be only physical; it must be cultivated with spiritual visits. It must be a loving attachment, a wanting to be there.
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