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MEXICO, Eduardo Shelley. A living Father Kentenich, close, human but extraordinary…  was what Fr. Angel Strada, postulator for the cause of beatification for Father Kentenich, shared with more than 200 persons of the Schoenstatt Family in Monterrey on Monday, December 7th.    Read More

Posted On 20.12.2009In Jubilee 2014

A Canticle of Hope

PUERTO RICO, Sr. M. Isabel Bracero. Having Father Kentenich among us in the Father Eye Symbol, has given the time of Advent an aura of hope which we want to share with the whole Island and the entire world. On Sunday, December 13th, third Sunday of Advent and Gaudete Sunday, from the Schoenstatt Shrine and under Father's watchful gaze, we launched a Canticle of Hope with a great party in Schoenstatt.  Read More
PORTUGAL, P. Francisco Sobral/cal. The Schoenstatt Family in Lisbon, Portugal, together with the other Diocesan Families throughout the country are preparing for Schoenstatt's 50th jubilee in Portugal in 2010 and the centenary of the Covenant of Love in 2014, by taking practical steps and listing the goals they want to achieve. The Father Symbol will visit the country in 2010 as part of its jubilee celebrations and it will find a family that is renewing itself around the motto: 1 Family, 1 Father, 1 Mission.Read More
CHILE. Upon finalizing the International Congress of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Germany, the newly elected leadership traveled to Chile to have its first working session. At the beginning of November, the crew of the magazine VINCULO interviewed the first councilor, Fr. José María García, on the Congress of the Schoenstatt Fathers. A second part of the interview (published in VINCULO, December 2009) is in regard to the centennial of the Covenant of Love (this will be published later in a separate article).Read More
ARGENTINA, María Susana Badiola/mkf. In Coronel Suárez, Schoenstatt is growing step by step, organically, and without stopping through: the Rosary Campaign, a wayside shrine, Dawn Breakers, families, mothers, youth…and for some months now, Mary's Volunteers. On September 8, 1982, Raquel Sáenz Valiente, as an instrument of Divine Providence and encouraged by Father Esteban Uriburu, founded Mary's Volunteers of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement. Its mission is multifaceted: to help the sick with their physical and spiritual needs by offering them consolation, affection during their time of anguish and loneliness, and byRead More

Posted On 16.12.2009In Covenant Life

Serenade for Mary

ARGENTINA, Ricardo and Silvia Saez. At 8:00 p.m. on Monday December 7th, the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the 34th Annual Serenade for Mary was held in front of the La Plata Shrine. The Shrine's Pastoral Team organized the event and the motto was: "Argentina, sings and walks!".    Read More
BRAZIL, Sr. M. Rosangela. Some of the Girls' Youth in Palmitinho in Rio Grande do Sul state used their creativity to set up their home shrines in the shape of the Pilgrim Mother images so that our MTA can accompany them to other cities when they begin their university studies.    Read More
PUERTO RICO, Solmarie Sotelo. After the warm reception at the 4th of December Airport and the vigil in Hato Rey, the Father Symbol arrived at the Solidarity Shrine in Cabo Rojo, where it stayed until 5 December when it was taken to the cathedral in the Puerto Rican capital, San Juan Bautista, and was joined by the picture of the Virgin Mother of Divine Providence, "the main patroness of Puerto Rico."Read More
BRAZIL, Sr. M. Carmen. The Blessed Mother wants to begin her victorious journey into the schools again to reach out to children who, in their simplicity, open their hearts to welcome their the Mother of Jesus in the town of Santa Cruz do Sul.    Read More
Solmarie Sotelo. "Today, we already feel the excitement of knowing that Father will be among us in just a few hours. As I had promised, I will keep you informed about every step that I witness regarding the visit of such a meaningful symbol. We need this visit very much at this moment of our history", wrote Oneliss Rolón, of the Girls' Youth, a few hours after the arrival of the Father Symbol to Puerto Rico on December 4th.  Read More