Covenant Life Category

Fr. Andrew Pastore. Quite a few steps have had to be take on the pilgrim way toward 2014 in these last weeks. The challenge of Fr. Jose Maria having to step down for health reasons is perhaps eased by the fact that the new team is larger in size and ready to move things forward.          Read More
Fr. Heinrich Walter. On 18 February Fr Walter informed the General Presidium that Fr Garcia would no longer be able to take responsibility in Team 2014 for health reasons, and that the team would have to be re-formed. The General Presidium was therefore invited at short notice to a discussion on 6 March in the Covenant House.      Read More
org. For the feastday of Fr José María García on 19 March Sr M. Luciane Machens, who from 2008 shared with him the responsibility for preparing and conducting Conference 2014 and the time of preparation for the 2014 Jubilee that followed, has written him a personal letter to thank him for all he has done in these four years. We gladly fulfil her wish to publish this letter on schoenstatt.org.        Read More
CHILE, Family Coordination "Tierra Joven from Curicó. The Schoentatt Family from city of Curicó, Region of Maule, Chile sends a special greeting on this 18th, the day of renewing the Covenant of Love with our beloved Blessed Mother. They unite spiritually every month with everyone throughout the world to embody the family that the Founder and Father desired.    Read More
Agathe Hug/org. The Holy Mass "toward 2014" celebrated at the Original Shrine allows the participants - and also those who are present through schoenstatt-tv, through schoenstatt.org, simply through a poster placed in the Shrine, or by downloading the reports and the petitions - to go on pilgrimage every Saturday to one country or another, where the Covenant of Love is present. At these Masses, all the countries, where there is someone who has sealed the Covenant of Love, are mentioned. It is the same whether it is a countryRead More
BURUNDI, Caritas Kabirig. At the end of 2009, my daughter in-law was expecting her first child. The pregnancy was going well until the sixth month, at that time, she began to suffer from hypertension, and she underwent treatment.      Read More
ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa. During the Mass con-celebrated for the arrival of the Father Symbol to Córdoba, Father José María Iturrería invited the large number of faithful to "embody" the Year of Shrine that the Schoenstatt International Family is celebrating on the way toward the jubilee of the Covenant of Love with the words "Let us make our Nation…a Shrine!" The Father Symbol visited the province of Córdoba for four days on its worldwide pilgrimage in preparation for 2014 and was brought by a delegation that went to Ciudad deRead More
BELMONTE, Fr. Michael Gerber. We have been working since last year to get sponsors for the 284 columns that support the "Domus Pater Kentenich" (Father Kentenich's House). The number of donors is impressive: 161 columns already have sponsors.        Read More
Agathe Hug. There are some important anniversaries in the year 2012.  Seventy years have passed since the January 20, 1942.  The Pre-founding Document of October 27, 1912 is one hundred years old.  It is seventy years since March 11, 1942.  Presumably many are scratching their heads.  Wednesday, March 11, 1942?  That was the day Father Kentenich began the trip to Dachau.  The train that took him from Koblenz to Limburg departed at approximately 4:00 p.m., passing through Bad Ems.  In Limburg, the train that carried the prisoners was connected toRead More
Cristina Arana de Sanguinetti. On January 20, 2012, I was reading an online Argentinean newspaper, La Nación, when I found an article by a well-known journalist; it was a report about the Argentinean Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust.  I am interested in learning all I can about our older brothers, the Jews, because our Father and the Founder of Schoenstatt also suffered during the Nazi regime.    Read More