Covenant Life Category

CHILE, Father Luis Ramírez V. Christmas Eve 1960, fifty years ago in the land of Bellavista, God worked a great miracle that was extended to all of the global Family and to the Church.        Read More
mkf. "Did it leave Zimbabwe ok? Were there problems at the border? Where is it now in South Africa?" These questions were asked last December 3rd in Memholz. The response was: yes. Yes, he - in Memholz, from mid November and the "Week of the Father," the symbol is "he" and its visit simply never ends - on November 26th it flew from Manchester to Johannesburg and from there it traveled to Harare. From December 1st to December 13th it was in Johannesburg.Read More
AUSTRALIA, Sr. M. Helen Ockerby. The joy of Christ's birth resounds throughout the world. Young and old joined the Schoenstatt choir on Monday 27, December, at Mt Schoenstatt, Sydney, Australia, in singing well known and well loved Christmas carols.        Read More
CHILE, Alejandro Reid/mkf. Father Horacio Rivas departed at dawn for his encounter with God the Father. "The Blessed Mother chose a beautiful day to take him by the hand to the Father. We unite in prayer for him in gratitude for everything that he gave us through his human, close, generous, joyful priestly being," Mariangeles Acosta, wrote on Facebook.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Carlos and Lilita Ricciardi. On December 18th, Covenant Day, a preparation meeting for Missions 2011, which will be carried out in Coronel Dorrego (Province of Buenos Aires) was held in the Shrine of Father's Freedom (and of love of the Church) in La Plata. The couples and the youth who will participate in the missions attended this meeting. A couple from Ecuador, Cristina and Pablo Terán, their four children, and the youth who will take part also attended. This couple is preparing to carry out theirRead More
USA, Carlos Cantú. It was a beautiful evening, cool enough for a jacket, and it was a still night, exuding solemnity. There was a sense that something majestic was taking place. There were about 200 persons present for the 6:00 PM Mass at Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in McAllen, Texas USA. Our Movement Director in Texas, Schoenstatt Father Héctor Vega, was concelebrating the Mass with Father Carlos Zúñiga, pastor of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin.      Read More
ECUADOR, Andrea Cabrera. The Ecuadorian Schoenstatt Family's Golden Anniversary year has been full of blessings: new vocations for the Institute of the Sisters of Mary have emerged, the centennial of the Father and Founder's priestly ordination was commemorated, and the year 2014, when the entire world will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Covenant of Love, is drawing near.  Read More
USA, Angie Santos. After 23 years of striving and many contributions to the Treasury of Grace, Schoenstatt members in the south of Florida - originally from at least 22 Latin American countries - witnessed a dream come true: the Shrine of Miami, "Way to the Merciful Father."    Read More
CANADA, Monica and Willy Fiebelkorn. In this year of the Father Current, Father Kentenich`s 125th birthday was celebrated in many places - one of them was Winnipeg, Canada. Since the overwhelming reactions to the Holy Mass in covenant with Canada celebrated earlier this year in the Original Shrine (in preparation for 2014), the worldwide Schoenstatt Family knows that Schoenstatt exists in this great country...  Read More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. People often associate Africa with a lack of a notion of time. Nothing ever happens on time and it's normal for an event to begin half an hour late! This was the assumption of the group that met the Father Symbol at the O.R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Everyone arrived at the airport early on 1 December to beat the morning peak traffic and different groups were sitting at various coffee shops throughout the airport to wait for the flight carrying Fr. David Musgrave andRead More