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Posted On 17.02.2015In Schoenstatters

To Serve the Church – and Perhaps Build Up Schoenstatt in Bungoma

KENYA, mda. For years now Fr Joseph Kariuki, a member of the Scheonstatt Institute for Diocesan Priests, has been building up the Schoenstatt Movement in Kenya. He had got to know Schoenstatt in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a member of the Priests’ Institute, and brought Schoenstatt to Kenya. A League group for priests started, and other parts of the Movement followed. In 1994 the first fifty Kenyans consecrated themselves to the Blessed Mother of Schoenstatt. He has now been asked by the Bishops’ Conference in Kenya to lecture in philosophy atRead More

Posted On 13.02.2015In Schoenstatters

“Almighty God, also bless my enemies”

GERMANY, mda. "Almighty God, also bless my enemies”. Suddenly the people at the postal counter who had been queuing impatiently, were drawn into a conversation about injury and reconciliation, enmity at work and at home, and the strength it requires even to think about someone who has done us an injustice or harmed us, without talking negatively about them or even worse. “Please give me ten more”, the young woman said who had started the conversation. “I have never seen such a stamp before”. Behind her someone remarked, “I thinkRead More

Posted On 13.02.2015In Schoenstatters

“Our Lady’s Deacon”

BRAZIL, Sister M. Ivanir Castro. God called home Deacon Ubaldo Alves Pimentel, a faithful companion to Deacon John Luiz Pozzobon on his journey with the Original Pilgrim Mother.  Ubaldo was hospitalized several times and on 4 February suffered a stroke and died at the Santa Maria Charity Hospital.  His wife, Soeli, who accompanied him throughout, was very attentive to her husband, practically carrying this difficult burden alone as they had no children.  Read More

Posted On 30.01.2015In Schoenstatters

Hildegard C. Hug, Graphic Artist and Co-Founder of Schoenstatt-TV, died unexpectedly

mda. Those who attended the early Mass in the Original Shrine on 29 January 2015 were the first to hear the news of the unexpected death – possibly as a result of a heart attack – of Hildegard C. Hug, graphic artist and co-founder of Schoenstatt-tv. Fr Egon M. Zillekens, who was the celebrant at this Mass, which he offered up for her, was informed by Hildegard’s brother, Johannes M. Hug, a Brother of Mary.  Read More

Posted On 09.01.2015In Schoenstatters

Fr Franz Johannes Brügger has died

GERMANY, Heinrich Brehm. Early in the afternoon of 8 January 2015 Fr Franz Johannes Brügger (72), member of the community of Schoenstatt Fathers, died unexpectedly. A former Provincial Superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers and Chairman of the National Presidium of the German Schoenstatt Movement, he died of an acute heart attack as he entered the Provincial House of the community on Mount Sion, Vallendar, soon after he returned from a private trip lasting a number of days.Read More

Posted On 28.12.2014In Schoenstatters

Schoenstatt celebrates Father Hernán Alessandri’s canonization process

CHILE, www.iglesiadesantiago.cl. Father Hernán Alessandri Morandé was one of the most representative, beloved and admired personalities who passed through the Schoenstatt Movement’s history. He died on December 18, 2007, at the age of 72. His canonization process is ready to begin in the Vatican; it is something that makes the members of the Schoenstatt Movement very happy. This was the reason that the Provincial Superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers, Fr. Mariano Irureta, met with Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati on Thursday, December 18th, at the Archdiocese of Santiago to converse about FatherRead More

Posted On 20.12.2014In Schoenstatters

A statue of Karl Leisner commemorates the 70th Anniversary of his priestly ordination in the concentration camp of Dachau

GERMANY, Father Stefan Keller. On December 17, 2014 – Pope Francis’ 78th birthday – was the 70th Anniversary of the priestly ordination of Blessed Karl Leisner in Dachau concentration camp, through the hands of a French bishop, who was also a prisoner. On this occasion, a statue was blessed in Kleve (Cleves), in the lower Rhine, Blessed Karl Leisner’s hometown.Read More

Posted On 18.12.2014In Schoenstatters

Thank you, Father Ludovico

ITALY, Calogero Tuzzolino. “...Pastoral help must be body to body. In other words, to accompany. And this means wasting time. Jesus was the master of time wasting, no? He wasted time to accompany, to allow consciences to mature, to heal, to teach. To accompany someone means to journey together." These words of Pope Francis, addressed to the family of Schoenstatt on October 25th, fully reflect the work that Father Ludovico Tedeschi has done here in Sicily and Italy, in these twelve years, he "lost time" with us, accompanied us, withRead More

Posted On 27.11.2014In Schoenstatters

In loving memory of mother – Magda Maria Giordano de Figueiredo

BRAZIL, Maria Luíza de Figueiredo Gonzalez. My mother, Magda Maria Giordano de Figueiredo, was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 6, 1935. She was an apostle of the Pilgrim Blessed Mother and she died precisely on October 18, 2014. As her daughter, I would like to give in a few words a testimony to her life and explain how the Pilgrim Blessed Mother accompanied her at the hour of her death.Read More

Posted On 15.11.2014In Schoenstatters

Appointment of Fr. Francisco Pistilli as bishop of the Diocese of Encarnación, Paraguay

VATICAN/ARGENTINA/PARAGUAY, mda. Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Francisco Pistilli Scorzara - the general superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers for the Region of the Father (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Italy, Nigeria) - as the bishop of the Diocese of Encarnación in Paraguay.  He will be ordained as bishop on 20 December 2014.    Read More

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