Schoenstatters Category

CHILE, Carmen Rogers. . He departed on the vigil of the great day. He is the first pilgrim toward October 18, 2014. And he marked the way, as he had marked it throughout Chilean Schoenstatt history, as a foundation, founder, guide and father.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Mercedes Bonorino. On October 12th, when Rome celebrates the Marian Conference in the context of the Year of Faith, it will be the 15th Anniversary of Father Esteban Uriburu's departure to heaven. There will be a tribute close to Father Esteban Uriburu's tomb in Florencio Varela, on the Zion Shrine grounds.  Read More

Posted On 11.09.2013In Schoenstatters

Post-WYD Testimony

BRAZIL, Priscila Bernardo. At the insistence of my friends, I decided to write a testimony about what World Youth Day Rio 2013 and the International Schoenstatt Girls' Youth Meeting - Cor Unum - meant for me. I have put things in order and hope that everyone can see themselves in this and increasingly become true instruments at the hands of our Blessed Mother.Read More
GERMANY, mda. This coming Sunday, 8 September, Rector Michael Gerber, a priest of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, will be ordained Bishop in the Freiburg Cathedral at 2.30 p.m. local time. His episcopal ordination will be broadcast live in the Internet and can be followed on www.ebfr.de and www.katolisch.de.  Read More
AUSTRALIA, Guilherme Dias. My name is Guilherme Dias. I am 26 years old. I belong to the Schoenstatt Boy’s Youth Group in Brazil since 2006. Now I am married to Barbara Lunardelli who also belonged to the Schoenstatt Girls Youth Group in Brazil. In May this year we departed on a long journey from Brazil to live in Perth, Western Australia, where there is also a Schoenstatt Shrine.Read More
mda. 18 July 2013. People from every generation and social class gather today around two hundred shrines, countless wayside shrines and chapels all over the world, in union with the little shrine in the Schoenstatt Valley. On the coming 18 October 2014 thousands of pilgrims will celebrate a hundred years of the covenant of love in union with one another, and renew this covenant and their readiness to create a covenant culture in every sphere of life – in the economy, politics, in the Church, in education and formation, andRead More
ARGENTINA, Rosita Ciola/mda. Alfredo Vallendor departed to the Father's House at dawn on Tuesday, June 25th. Odette and Alfredo Vallendor were pioneers of the Shrine of Villa Ballester and were one of the founding couples of the Family Work in Argentina. They received the mission of spreading the Home shrine current in Argentina and beyond.  Read More
ROME/GERMANY, mda. Fr Michael Gerber (43) of the Institute of Schoenstatt Diocesan Priests, was today, 12 June, appointed Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Freiburg by Pope Francis. He will be consecrated Bishop on 8 September, the anniversary of the dedication of "all of our shrine" in Belmonte at the International Schoenstatt Centre in Rome, for which the new Auxiliary Bishop has borne special responsibility at the request of his community.  Read More
SOUTH AFRICA, Diana Beemish. On Tuesday night, 5 June 2012 Vanneaux Kongolo, a young refugee from the DRC, took his life. It was an act of total despair and desperation. Vanneaux had been part of a small Schoenstatt group of young men at Mercy House, Johannesburg, a home for refugees. He had made his consecration to our holy mother in the Schoenstatt shrine, Bedfordview, on 20 July 2011.  Read More
mda. He is so obviously one of those who has played a part in the history of the covenant of love – completely in the spirit of the "Great" Magnificat – that today's news almost surprises us: Today the beatification process for Fr Franz Reinisch was opened. This is the priest who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler on the military flag, and to whom loyalty to his conscience and his very personal vocation was more important than his life.    Read More