Covenant Life Category

USA, Catherine Johnson. Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign members gathered recently at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to honor our Blessed Mother at a special "Honor Mary, Our Queen, Our Mother" celebration.      Read More
mkf. "Congratulations, I was waiting for that address!" writes Father Pedro Kuhlcke from Paraguay on Facebook. "That" address is www.schoenstatt.org which was presented to the international public on May 8th - with a renewed design, new offerings, renewed technology, a new legally responsible group (Team 2014), and the same spirit and the same team of collaborators from the previous webpage.      Read More

Posted On 13.05.2011In Jubilee 2014

2014 is on wheels!

mkf. Continuously, there is someone who asks - with interest, with compassion, skepticism, with caution - : is the preparation for 2014 coming along OK? Since last week, one can respond: not only is it coming along OK, it's on wheels…..train and bus wheels! On April 26th, the following representatives met with Dr. Berthold Link, general manager of Team 2014: the pool of those interested in the train traffic from the North of the Rhineland (SPNV - Nord, because of its German acronymns), the association of publicRead More
USA, Belsay Henning. The first pilgrimage to Way to the Merciful Father Shrine in the city of Miami was held with the motto: "Mary Mother of Mercy." The Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign from southern Florida organized the first pilgrimage to the recently consecrated Shrine in Miami.        Read More
PARAGUAY, Ricardo Acosta. Since the beginning of the year, one of the projects that the Boys' Group meeting in Tupãrenda wanted to carry out was the Holy Week Missions. Taking the Blessed Mother to Nueva Italia in the community of Isla Guavira about forty kms from Asunción was the goal.        Read More
mkf. Wednesday, May 4th, a sunny day around the Original Shrine and only a handful of people were witnesses of an historic moment. By coincidence, some members of the Schoenstatt Family from Trier who were praying in the Original Shrine; through the invitation, some Ecuadorians and Fr. Egon Zillekens, and of course the protagonists of this event: Sister Marion McClay, general coordinator of the worldwide pilgrimage of the Father Symbol, Sister M. Michela, representative of the Schoenstatt Family from France, and Aquiles and Laura Guerrero, NationalRead More
ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa. On April 30th Bishop Carlos José Ñáñez, Archbishop of Córdoba, ordained Pablo Gerardo Perez as a priest during a very well attended ceremony, where people's faces reflected different emotions and one especially: heartfelt joy. The first and very well attended Mass of the newly ordained priest was celebrated the following morning in the Schoenstatt Shrine of Solidarity in Villa Warcalde.    Read More
ECUADOR, Walter Jara Arroba. "Building a Holy Ecuador with Christ and Mary," was the motto that accompanied the sixth university missions organized by the Schoenstatt Youth from Guayaquil. Five invited families and more than eighty youth, some who participate in Schoenstatt, participated in these missions. They had a special feel this time, since it would be the third and final year that the youth would mission at the Ahuano Parish in the Amazon province of Napo. After this year, the Blessed Mother will guide these missionary youth toRead More
mkf. The other day, really bad news came in: myphotolbum.com, the photo sharing site that we have used for six years for our Schoenstatt Photo albums, will shut down by the end of May. This will mean broken links in hundreds of articles on this page, and the loss of all the albums and their photos on the photo album site. This is not a hoax but sad reality.    Read More
ITALY, Federico Bauml. Holy Week 2011. Fifteen missionaries in San Giorgio Lucano for an extraordinary Easter in the ordinary.          Read More