Schoenstatters Category

Victoria*, a German student, has a special connection to Joseph Engling. She tells the readers of schoenstatt.org how this happened and what she wants to achieve for Joseph Engling • Dear brothers and sisters in the covenant of love, I am Victoria, live in Germany, and am studying history and Catholic theology. From birth I have been spastic. Since 2006 I have been asking Joseph Engling, one of the best-known Schoenstatters of the Founding Generation, to intercede for my healing, but so far without success. I am sure it isRead More
PARAGUAY, Sebastian Acha, former leader of the Schoenstatt Young Men, co-founder of Patria Querida (a political party with roots in the Schoenstatt Movement), MP for two parliamentary terms • Ever since Schoenstatt came into my life – into my life, that is a reality, it was in my earliest childhood through my experiences with my parents – the life and legacy of Fr Joseph Kentenich has fascinated me. The pedagogical recommendations of the Movement took on shape and form while we developed our activities, first of all as a family,Read More
BRAZIL/GERMANY, by María Fischer • Paulo Kist, one of four Brazilians who belongs to the same Men’s Group in Santa Cruz do Sul, approached Gertrud and Norbert Jehle in the cafeteria with this simple request: “May we have the key to the Shrine, so we can go to pray the rosary tonight?” This ended in an animated and joyful conversation in Portuguese, German, Spanish and “portuñol” [a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish] about the experiences of the group on their trip and pilgrimage through Germany, the Shrines in South America,Read More
By María Fischer • Saturday June 27 was the 30th anniversary of the death of João Pozzobon, the untiring missionary of the Blessed Mother and the founder of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign. He was invited to participate in Fr. Kentenich’s centennial celebrations in September 1985 in Schoenstatt and in Rome. But a few months before, on June 27, 1985, he was killed after being hit by a truck on his pilgrimage to the Shrine. He died in the presence of Original Pilgrim MTA (which was also hit by a truckRead More
Father Adolfo Losada answers today, he belongs to the Federation of Priests, Tabor de María Course- Shrine of the Presbyters Fathers of La Plata, Buenos, Argentina • Six months into the pilgrimage through the covenant of love’s second century… what is your dream for this Schoenstatt in who we are and where we find ourselves in the church and in the world, and in our mission? Two things come to my soul like a voice: An echo that we repeated a year ago without tiring “Your Covenant, our mission”, and twoRead More
VATICAN/BRAZIL, Maria Fischer • Today Pope Francis appointed Auxiliary Bishop Rafael Biernaski of Curitiba, Brazil, as Bishop of Blumenau, Brazil. The Blumenau Diocese covers over 3,835㎢, and has a population of 671.282, of whom 460.282 are Catholics, with 67 Priests, 79 Religious and 53 permanent deacons. Blumenau is a town known for its traditions, which it has preserved from the German settlers who founded it. It lives strongly from ecological and cultural tourism. The Oktoberfest of Blumenau, based on the Munich Oktoberfest, was started in 1984 in order to encourageRead More
CHILE/SCHOENSTATT, from editorial team • On 7 June 2015, towards 6 p.m. local time in Chile, Fernando Arrau died. It was the vigil of Sunday, the day on which Chile, like so many other countries, celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi. Throughout his life Fernando Arrau had great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and spread the devotion of adoring the Blessed Sacrament. He gave the Schoenstatt Family a great deal – through the witness of his life, his apostolate and his material goods. His foundation Maria Reina del Trabajo (MaryRead More
ARGENTINA – Claudia Echenique and Cecilia Mata • Rejoice, Mary! This is how the article that was published at schoentatt.org on September 8, 2004, began, and this is when the phrase “translated to Italian by María Tedeschi” first appeared. Since then and thanks to the numerous articles María has translated from the city of La Plata, the Italian section of the website has been a great contribution to the growth of the Schoenstatt Family in Italy. On Monday, 11 May, María turned 90 years old, and she continues to translate.Read More
mda. “If things happened in similar difficult situations for Joseph Engling, then it also has to be possible for me.  And for Joseph Engling, the key thing was his personal ideal upon which he was always grounded,” someone wrote. – “Love and allowing oneself to be led by love, because in the end, love is what counts and remains.  Everything else fades, but the love is remembered.  That is what took me to Cambrai,” said another.  Two people’s testimonies who have had a profound encounter with Joseph Engling in Cambrai,Read More
mda. Karl Leisner would have celebrated his hundredth birthday on 28 February (1915-1945). He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996. He had got to know Schoenstatt as a teenager, and during his theology studies was a member of a Schoenstatt group, one of whom was later the Bishop of Munster, Heinrich Tenhumberg. Throughout his life the few, but intensive, times of encounter with the Blessed Mother in the Original Shrine remained the decisive milestones on the path of his vocation. During days of Adoration of the BlessedRead More