ECUADOR, María Elena Vilches. The Schoenstatt Family in Ecuador celebrated its Golden Anniversary in May of last year. Hundreds of people gathered in the shadow of the Shrine with the motto: For you Father, united on the paten. One of the clearest legacies of that celebration was awareness: We walk together toward the centenary of the Covenant of love.
Read More Walburga Westermann. February 9, 2011 is the 50th Anniversary of Elisabeth Schalück's death; she was the branch leader of the Schoenstatt Girls' Youth in the Wiedenbrück district. Those who belonged to Elisabeth's group at that time, now grown women and mothers, took the initiative to especially commemorate this day. On February 8, 2011, the eve of her death, a Holy Mass will be held at 6:00 p.m. at Saint Egido Parish in Wiedenbrück.
Read More PHILIPPINES, Sr. Charito-Maria Olvido/mkf. As part of the spiritual preparation for the centenary of the Covenant of Love in 2014, the Philippine Schoenstatt Movement launched the Year of the Father Current with an unveiling of the picture of Fr. Joseph Kentenich on the outside wall of the Shrine. Since then this picture is a reminder to each pilgrim of the one in whose heart Schoenstatt and the Covenant of Love were born.
Read More USA, Enrique Soros. Saturday, March 5th will be a great day for couples from the North American East Coast, because of the first United States and Canada's East Coast Couples' Conference will take place in New York City. The distance is great, so it is not easy to carry out a project of this kind, but when there is a mission and enthusiasm nothing is impossible.
Read More USA, Sr Marie Day. "Hurry lest it be too late," now seems to be Father Kentenich's call to the USA's Schoenstatt Family as the pilgrimage towards 2014 has begun. Increasingly, many long for Father Joseph Kentenich's canonization and the process of canonization coming to a closure in the diocese and being transferred to Rome for the second stage. Dreams of receiving this news in the midst of the triennium arise.
Read More BRAZIL, Edmara Michetti - Press Office - ISCAL. Sister Rosamaris Fabeni died this morning, February 3rd. She was a pioneer in the health field in Londrina; she dedicated her entire life to others by working with patients in the "Little Wooden Hospital", then years later at the new "Santa Casa" Hospital of Londrina/PR.
Read More mkf. Gabon? Is it a country? Where is it located? Sister María's face reflected surprise when she coincidentally attended the Mass in Covenant with Gabon on January 22nd. On the pilgrimage road toward 2014, it is the worldwide Schoenstatt Family's turn to visit Gabon, a country located in central Africa, close to the Gulf of Guinea that borders Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Congo Republic. For more than a year, countries, where the Covenant of Love is found to exist, are celebrated and remembered in
Read More G.M. Sometimes couples go through difficult times, and we are no exception to this having had one more or less fifteen years ago. It was so difficult that for a time we were not together; I was here and she was there. That of course is not the way a marriage should be; when you join your lives, it is to share everything with love and to overcome difficulties together.
Read More mkf. The conviction that God gives grace at certain places when pilgrims visit them spiritually or in person, applies also to those places particularly connected with the unfolding of Fr Kentenich's charism and Schoenstatt's history. This conviction has always been alive in the Schoenstatt Family. We could mention Schoenstatt, Cambrai, Dachau, Gymnich, Koblenz, Nueva Helvecia, Bellavista, Rome and Milwaukee as the goal of many pilgrimages.
Read More ARGENTINA, Inés Petiti. Principal Susana Manzanares and the teachers of the Municipal School of Art painted a mural which forms part of the wayside shrine in honor of the Blessed Mother of Schoenstatt erected in the southern area of Goya, Argentina.
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