Covenant Life Category

ECUADOR, Mónica Maruri. The Schoenstatt Family from Ecuador celebrated its 50 years of history with the motto: "For you Father…United on the Paten." On fire for the mission, they invite the worldwide family: "Let us live this jubilee year with an interior and exterior joy, which will be noticeable in us, so that each person can say: we are the bearers of a great mission: we want to take it on, live it, and present it to the Church and the world for their renewal andRead More
CHILE, mkf. "We want to inform you of the cruel reality that our country and the children of our beloved Corporation Maria Ayuda Chile is experiencing, at this time", wrote Father Francisco Pereira, Director of "Maria Ayuda", in a letter to the international family, addressed to the Schoenstatt Press Office. Maria Ayuda, one of the most important and advanced social works of Schoenstatt at the worldwide level, urgently needs help - in order to continue helping the youngest and most vulnerable, the children.Read More
HUNGARY, Sr. Gertrud-Maria Erhard. "Tired and restless, we were sitting together as a couple in our Home-Shrine with the visit of the Father Eye Symbol," relates Istvan Endredy, a member of the diocesan council of the Schoenstatt Movement in Budapest. "After our couples' group meeting, we felt 'renewed.' Unusually, the next day I did not have to work and it made it possible for us to have anew, after a long time, a good married dialog. Perhaps we owe it to the visit of the Father EyeRead More
mkf. "The Mass for Chile was very pretty, I followed it on the Internet at dawn. The snow that was falling outside was impressive!" wrote Cassio Leal, who was connected to the Original Shrine from São Paulo, Brazil at three o'clock in the morning; and it truly was impressive. Not only because of the snow that fell all night returning winter to Schoenstatt. What was impressive was the number of brave souls who in spite of the snow filled the Shrine for a Holy Mass to mark theRead More
Fr. José Luis Correa. "Priests today" is the title which the priests of the Focolare and Schoenstatt Movements along with the collaboration of ICCRS (International Catholic Charismatic Renewal) and other Church organizations is inviting priests, seminarians, and those interested to a conference for the closing of the Year for Priests, which will be held in Rome on June 9, 2010, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Paul VI Hall.Read More
CHILE. "In these times of pain for the death of loved ones, times of insecurity and material losses for so many of our brothers and sisters," Fr. Mariano Irureta on behalf of the Schoenstatt Family National Council of Chile and Fr. Eduardo Aguirre, Director of the Movement, issued a message asking for prayer and solidarity with the victims as well as asking for mutual help in viewing the catastrophe from the standpoint of Divine Providence. We publish here the entire message.Read More
ITALY, Lito and Rosita Musolino. On Saturday, March 6, 2010, the community of Belmonte bid farewell to Bishop Rafael Biernaski at the Matri Ecclesiae Shrine. He was named Auxiliary Bishop to his home diocesis, Curitiba, Brazil. Bishop Biernaski had accompanied the community in Belmonte since the blessing of the Shrine at the Schoenstatt International Center in Rome. The episcopal ordination will take place on April 15th in Curitiba.Read More
Michael and Margaret Fenelon. Heaven has become a reality! This is the gift Father Kentenich has given to us through this life that is ours, our Schoenstatt life. 45 years ago Heaven once again touched the earth in a very real way. On February 23, 1964 our parents, Raymond and Eleanor Yank, invited Father to their home asking that the Blessed Mother might be drawn down into their home shrine to make it a place of grace. The reality of her presence there as Mother and Educator over the manyRead More
SPAIN, María Paz Leiva and Miguel Ángel Rubio. The Embassy of Chile in Spain announced through the media in Madrid that on Wednesday, the 3rd, a Mass in memory of the victims of the earthquake would be held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt, located at Serrano 97 Street at 7:00 p.m. The Mass was celebrated in the Joseph Kentenich Hall at the house of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Madrid because of the large number of people who attended.Read More
mkf. In the Letter to the Corinthians  Saint Paul said, "If one part suffers, all parts suffer with it." (1Cor.12:26) During these days after the earthquake in Chile, the solidarity of the Schoenstatt Family is expressed in hundreds of emails, phone calls, prayers, Masses and demonstrations of solidarity from Schoenstatters all over the world. "If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, Saint Paul said in the Letter to the Corinthians": This is how  Father Heinrich Walter, President of the Schoenstatt General Presidency, begins his message ofRead More