Covenant Life Category

PORTUGAL, Sr. M. Elisa Görck/Fr. José Melo. During the month of April, the "Father Eye Symbol" for the Original Shrine was on pilgrimage throughout Portugal. It visited the families of the four Shrines and was present at the 50th Golden Jubilee celebrations of Schoenstatt in Portugal.      Read More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. With less than a month before the start of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the excitement is building and South Africa is getting ready to welcome the world.          Read More
Sarah-Leah Pimentel. A little over a week ago, I went onto the Spanish page on www.schoenstatt.de, looking for articles that still needed translating into English. I found one, called ‘{cms_selflink page="a-new-nation" text="Patria Nueva"},' an apostolic project started by the Schoenstatt Youth aiming to renew Argentinean society and develop a greater sense of national responsibility. The context for the article was the upcoming 200th anniversary of Argentina's nationhood. Finding the project interesting, I translated it and sent it off to the Press Office without giving it much thought.Read More
AUSTRALIA,  Sr. M. Julie Brcar. Mothers' Day in Mulgoa, Australia, was marked by an abundance of roses, expressions of love and gratitude by the many Pilgrims who visited the Shrine on Sunday, 9th of May 2010.        Read More

Posted On 12.05.2010In Jubilee 2014

Filling the gap

POLAND, Violetta Wilandt. The Father Symbol, on pilgrimage throughout the world, is currently visiting the Schoenstatt Family in Spain after accompanying the 50th Anniversary of Schoenstatt in Portugal in April, which was celebrated in Fatima. At the end of May during this world pilgrimage, it is bound for its first visit to South America. This pilgrimage's purpose is to gather and unite the Schoenstatt Family worldwide in preparation for the Centennial of the Covenant of Love. Some attentive readers of schoenstatt.de found out that there was a gap between theRead More
mkf. On Monday, May 3rd, a conference for pastoral experts from several countries began with a Holy Mass celebrated in the Original Shrine by Father Heinrich Walter, President of the General Presidency of Schoenstatt. The task of this group is to apply the 2014 message in respect to the large pilgrimage to which the Schoenstatt Family feels called to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Covenant of Love.  Read More
BURUNDI, Federico Gaffrey. Sundays are the days in which the people gather in the house of God, to listen to the Gospel and to feel the divine grace of forgiveness and consequently of communion. This is the reason it is called and communally known as the day of celebration. But, in spite my 24 years of age, it was only yesterday that I strongly understood what this meant.    Read More
CHILE, Carmen Rogers/mkf. A brief news item, published at 11:15 A.M., can be read on the government page of Chile: "The President of the Republic receives two new chaplains of La Moneda: Alfred Cooper, Evangelical, and Luis Ramírez, Catholic." The one who entered this morning into the Palace of La Moneda - headquarters for the President of the Republic of Chile - is Father Luis Ramírez, Provincial Superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Chile. He is 73, and is at the present time part of theRead More
USA, Sr. M. Frances. On April 24, 2010 five young women dedicated themselves out of love to the Triune God as they joined the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in two separate ceremonies - in Wisconsin four novices received the dress of Mary, while a fifth novice was received in her home country of the Dominican Republic. The course is in itself quite international: Along with the novice from the Dominican Republic, one is originally from Argentina, still another is from Colombia, and the other two areRead More
Fr. Alberto Eronti. 100 years ago, Joseph Kentenich heard the words spoken to him: "You are a priest forever, according to the rite….." Divine Providence has permitted that while our Schoenstatt Family joyfully celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ordination of its Founder, the Church is shaken by a series of scandals produced by priests and bishops. These are scandals which hurt the Church and us, and they confuse the "men of good will."Read More