Covenant Life Category

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
USA, Kathy Asanza. Just a few days from now, the shrine in Miami, United States will be blessed by Monsignor Felipe de Jesús Estevez, the auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida. It has been a long wait - 23 years since our Mother Thrice Admirable arrived from Schoenstatt, Germany and made her home among the Schoenstatt Family in Miami, mostly made up of Latin American immigrants. Years of contributions to the Capital of Grace, prayers, sacrifices and also some joys and blessings will culminate on 12Read More
Fr. Joaquín Alliende Luco. "In March of 1963, I had the great opportunity of spending 15 days with the Father and Founder in Milwaukee. I had the task of presenting him with a possible apostolic tactic for Schoenstatt in Chile. Among other things, we strolled through the cemetery where he usually meditated. I spoke to him about a request for the Community of the Fathers to take the pastoral responsibility for the Shrine in Maipú (this Shrine is dedicated to the VIRGEN DEL CARMEN, Patroness of Chile,Read More

Posted On 10.12.2010In Covenant Life

Mission Bolivia

CHILE/BOLIVIA, JF. Mission Bolivia is a Girls' Youth apostolate from Santiago Cordillera that was born as the response of a desire to serve the Movement by responding to the call to contribute to building a new social order in Latin America.        Read More
PARAGUAY, María Luz Fleitas. November 21st was a rainy Sunday morning, but one full of love for the Virgin of Schoenstatt. Nine missionaries arrived to receive the Pilgrim MTA, the Mediatrix of Graces! Seven Pilgrim MTAs of the new modality "Little Mother for children at risk" were also commissioned. (This modality was born ten years ago in Cirrientes, Argentina, where the missionaries took the "Pilgrim MTA to babies whose lives were at risk:" premature babies, children who were seriously ill, and their parents, along with the commitment ofRead More
COSTA RICA, Michelle Ramírez. The visit of the priest/advisor to Costa Rica has impelled an impressive current of life…the Family awaits him, and when Father Guillermo arrives it seems that all the dreams and desires are fulfilled…Among the activities that were carried out were sixteen Home shrine blessings, a retreat for a Mothers' Branch, and another one for the Girls' Youth…    Read More