Covenant Life Category

PARAGUAY, Ani y Rodrigo Pangrazio/mkf. It has only been a month since the "Your Family is Valuable" Conference in Tuparenda, and the enthusiasm is still alive. Testimonies continue to arrive from the participants, and it is clear: this was not a sporadic event but a beginning. "On September 2nd, we decided to continue carrying out the event YOUR FAMILY IS VALUABLE," Father Antonio Cosp writes. It has been an historic time for Paraguayan Schoenstatt, and it is a sign of what Father Ludovico Tedeschi stressed at Conference 2014: a changeRead More
POLAND, Kuba Orowski and Marysia Kwas. Young people from all over Poland recently came to Świder near Warsaw in order to finish the summer vacation time in a Schoenstatt way. Inspired by this year's motto: "Yes, Father, I trust in you," they attended lectures and courses regarding fatherhood and the role of a father in one's life -Father God, Father and Founder, and family fathers-.Read More
CHILE, Mauricio Donoso. Boys’ Youth from the Roses of Mary Shrine,  in San Fernando, Chile, placed the first stone of their work for this new stage as a branch in Chile. It is Saturday afternoon in the valley of Colchagua, and a group of youth climb a hill, with the storng sunlight that shines on them, that encourages them to climb higher and higher…They reach the peak, they see the valley from the heights, they try to identify places that they know below in the city…they recognize their school, someRead More
mkf. On August 31, 2009, Mr. Franz M. Vogel was seventy years old; he is a member of the Institute of the Schoenstatt Brothers of Mary. He was born in Rottweil, and he is “fruit” of the apostolic work of Father Moser; he affirms, smiling. He is the one who on every 18th and frequently at other times lights the fire, where the contributions to the Capital of Grace are burned after the renewing of the Covenant of Love at the Original Shrine. Although he is not veryRead More
Theresia Rutzmoser. Imagine your houses’ doorbell ringing; you open the door, and there before you are two youths with a picture of the Blessed Mother in their arms. They introduce themselves as a Catholic youth group who wants to talk to you about faith, and furthermore, they invite you to participate in different activities at the parish. Scary? Courageous? Unusual? This scene was not invented; it truly has been done hundreds of times. It happened during Missions 2009: Live the Faith, which was carried out for theRead More
Sr. M. Onilce Cigognini (www.tabormta.org) During the 60th Anniversary Jubilee of her Crowning, the Queen of Heroic Childlikeness received all the love and gratitude that She alone deserves. Her children love her so intensely and tenderly that they freely choose Her to accompany them at every moment of their lives: in times of sorrow, but most of all, in the happy moments. In this way, the Queen exercises her power in every way, since we offered our own lives in the symbol of the crown and scepter; there areRead More
mkf. Schoenstatt is filling up with pilgrims during this month of September, a few days before the anniversary of Father Kentenich’s death, on September 15th, 41 years ago. The arrival of the pilgrimages from Brazil and Argentina are awaited. During this weekend and the coming week, several important events will also take place around the Shrines and wayside shrines throughout the world…Read More
BURUNDI, Fr. Deogratias Maruhukiro. Three weeks have passed since the event that will go down in history of  Schoenstatt in Burundi and beyound. On Saturday 15 August, Mount Sion ggkungu in Bujumbura  was overflowing with a crowd of people who came for the feast of the crowning of the Blessed Mother as the Queen of Peace and Reconciliation. Not just a feast like many others in the course of the years...Read More
ARGENTINA, Susana Hernández. During the same weekend as the blessing of the first Shrine in Croatia and the Night at the Shrine in Schoenstatt, The Schoenstatt Diocesan Conference took place in Pehuajó, Argentina with the presence of Father Guillermo Cassone. The communities of Trenque Lauquen, Henderson, Nueve de Julio, Bragado, and for the first time, the city of Lincoln traveled to Pehuajó, where the Schoenstatt Family prepared everything to cordially welcome their brothers and sisters.  Read More
CROATIA, Xenia Schmidlin: On August 22nd, the blessing ceremony of the first Schoenstatt Shrine existing in the country took place in Mala Subotica, Croatia. Many came to participate in this great event among them were pilgrim cyclists, from Austria, and the Schoenstatt Family from Hungary, Romania, Germany, and a large group from Switzerland; and of course, the Croatian Schoenstatt Family who had sacrificed for many years through prayers and having had the desire to build this Shrine. The dream became a reality on the Feast of the QueenshipRead More