Schoenstatters Category

ARGENTINA, Mercedes and Fernando Bonorino. On September 25, 2012, Guillermo Echevarría returned to the house of the Father. Providence wanted him to depart on the day on which Argentina celebrates the Feast of the Virgin of Saint Nicolas' Rosary.      Read More
PARAGUAY, Kikito Vázquez. I would like to recall in these few lines, our beloved Course brother who has passed into the Eternal Schoenstatt: Beto Etchegaray.        Read More
SWITZERLAND, org. On the night of October 15th, Swiss Father, Ernst Fuchs, departed to heaven. On October 18th, Schoenstatt's founding day, the same day that the worldwide Movement stopped on its pilgrimage to the Jubilee of the Covenant of Love, and the day on which the Year of the Missionary Current began, he entered as a pilgrim into the sheepfold of the Good Shepherd to remain there forever.    Read More
org. On 29 September, the Feast of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Auxiliary Bishop Heiner Koch celebrated the Requiem for Monsignor Felix Kreutzwald in the Parish Church of St Magdalene in Bonn, Endenich.  Monsignor Kreutzwald is inseparably connected with both the parish and the Kreuzberg Church with its Schoenstatt shrine. He had been called to his eternal home on 19 September at the age of 79 after a brief, but serious illness. He was a member of the Institute of Schoenstatt Diocesan Priests and had made a majorRead More
USA, Dr. Rainer Birkenmaier. "The loving Father God could not have chosen a more beautiful day for his Dorothy." This was the reaction to the news that Mrs. Gmeinder was called to eternity on the Feast of the Birth of Mary. The Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt, the Blessed Mother took her child into the joy of heaven after a long life that was blessed and marked by the loving dispensation of Divine Providence which also included intense, especially emotional distress.  Read More
ARGENTINA, Fr. Federico Piedrabuena. Hello! I am Father Federico from Argentina. Starting this year, I was appointed pastor in San Pantaleón, Diocese of Quilmes. This is the only Argentinean parish whose pastoral care is in charge of the community of the Schoenstatt fathers. The parish is located to seven blocks from the Schoenstatt National Shrine blessed by Father Kentenich in 1952.      Read More
GERMANY, fma. "Fifty years of Priesthood in the service of Fr Kentenich" - That was the heading of the hymn sheet for the Holy Mass prepared by the Students and Postulants of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Munich for the solemn celebration in the late afternoon of 30 June. It describes the ministry of the priest celebrating the Golden Jubilee of his ordination, a priest to whom people in Germany, Hungary, and Austria owe their personal growth and the tasks they would never have envisaged for themselves, still less undertaken. TheyRead More
ARGENTINA, Osvaldo Banille/org. On July 19, 2012, Coco Ricciardi, one of the Schoenstatt "great" ones in Mendoza and beyond, departed for the house of the Father. Speaking as a friend, we would say, "he was a great guy"; speaking as Christians, we would say he was a "tireless apostle." Everywhere he went, along with his wife Iris, he spoke about the things of God, and he attracted people to the Church. The Rosary Campaign of the Pilgrim MTA was his great love and mission: His profile wasRead More
BRAZIL, Sr. M. Nilza. The pilgrims present at the Schoenstatt Shrine in Atibaia/São Paulo on June 3rd experienced a special moment of grace when diocesan priest, Fr. Francisco José Lemes Gonçalves, parish priest at Capelo do Alto/ São Paulo from where most of the 700 pilgrims came, made his Covenant of Love.    Read More
SWITZERLAND, Fr. Edwin Germann / org. Father Karl Widmer was born on March 11, 1931 and he died on June 19th at the Elsabethenheim assisted living residence in Lucerne. He worked in Burundi until 2006, where he was totally committed to the poorest of the poor with great enthusiasm. The funeral will be on June 22, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. in the parish of Horw. Then he will be buried in the cemetery of that city.    Read More