Dilexit ecclesiam Category

VATICAN/PERU • This Saturday, 27 May, while Pope Francis was in Genoa on a pastoral visit, the Vatican Press Office announced the appointment of Fr. Reinaldo Nann, who belongs to the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, as the new prelate of the territorial prelature of Caraveli, Peru. Only some weeks ago, Fr. Reinaldo Nann had begun his work in his new parish in Peru’s Amazon region.  A native of Freiburg, Germany, he is 56 years old. As a priest fidei donum that is, he belongs to a group of diocesanRead More
LATIN AMERICA, Fr. José Luis Correa • From 15 – 19 May, the Ecclesial Movements and New Communities conference was held in Santo Domingo; CELAM, the Latin American Episcopal Council, organized it. Ramón Marini from Paraguay’s Family Federation represented Schoenstatt. Fr. José Luis Correa was a speaker of two of three conferences. A service to the Latin American Church! Original: Spanish. 14 May 2017. Translation: Celina M. Garza, San Antonio, TX USA. Edited: Melissa Peña-Janknegt, Elgin, TX USARead More
ITALY, Pamela Fabiano – Girls’ Youth Leader in Italy • The Church of St. Catherine and St. Francis Patrons of Italy – is the Roman parish where the Schoenstatt Fathers live. This church, in front of Trastevere train station, hosts many activities of the Schoenstatt Movement in Italy, particularly the youth groups who give life to various groups, and over the years have grown thanks to the constant tenacity and commitment of the Schoenstatt Fathers and Sisters. GIURCAP is one of these groups. Young students at the Law Faculty atRead More
CUBA, Fr. Alberto,  Maisí’s pastor • Catastrophes have a very brief “shelf life” in the media. Not only in the media, but also in donations of solidarity, prayers, and memory.  There are simply so many, that even those that have a personal attachment touching the soul’s deepest parts, fade away…Hurricane Matthew?  The parish of Maisí in the Diocese of Guantánamo, the parish where one of the Schoenstatt Fathers from Cuba worked until July 2016? It was in October, and because Cuba only suffered material damage, the world’s media did notRead More
BURUNDI, Révérien BANZIRIYUBUSA • “Let us give thanks for this Year of Divine Mercy, help us to be merciful to one another like the Heavenly Father” was the main theme around which millions of faithful, along with all the Burundian bishops and the Apostolic Nuncio officially celebrated the closing of the Jubilee Year of Mercy and the Feast of Christ the King, on Sunday, 29 November 2016, at Mount Sion Gikungu. Mount Sion Gikungu, a Schoenstatt Shrine, was elaborately decorated. To welcome the pilgrims, a banner displaying the theme ofRead More
SYRIA/GERMANY by Domradio • The war in Syria does not end – politics does not find a solution. The only thing that can help is to pray? Perhaps. It is precisely for this reason that an initiative in Niederrhein, Germany, has emerged and on Monday, 5 December, a prayer chain will begin at the pilgrimage place of Kevelaer. domradio.de: What do you think will be accomplished by praying together in the coming Mondays of Advent that have been not been accomplished after all the international efforts for Syria? Dr. ElkeRead More
CHILE, Fernanda Faúndez Cabrera • In the Church, the Mapuche people’s situation has been a constant concern, always looking for channels of dialogue that facilitate living together in peace, valuing and integrating the cultural richness of this and of other native peoples who inhabit and belong to our country. The road of understanding, of integration of peace is a long one, but it has to set out today with a positive disposition, an open mind and generosity of heart. In this time of mercy, it is everyone’s job. This isRead More
CHILE, Octavio Galarce • Looking at the official picture of Mother Teresa published before her canonization in Rome, many people noticed the Unity Cross on the rosary she is holding in her right hand. We reproduce the account by Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, who has on several occasions explained the details of this: The memory of the conversation with Mother Teresa of Kolkata about the Unity Cross remains engraved perfectly in my memory. (When I worked in Rome) she attended the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life andRead More
CHILE, Fr. Claudio Martínez Felmer • We had a wholesome pride since the day we knew that our Blessed Mother would be present in the procession of the Virgen del Carmen and would travel through the streets of the center of Santiago with the Carmelita. So on Sunday, 25 September, on Chile’s Day of Prayer with the motto “Protect us with your Mantle,” many members of the Schoenstatt Family gathered along with the entire Church in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral to pay tribute to the Blessed Mother, ninety yearsRead More
ROME – CUBA, Fr. Rolando Gibert Montes de Oca Valero • I was not aware there was a Marian Jubilee.  I found out about it from a friend’s invitation.  So I thought: the Church wants to give Blessed Mother a gift… but surely she will give us something better, and I began to ask myself what would be the richest gift that Blessed Mother would want to give us… In conjunction with the Jubilee, some friends from the Neo-catechumenal Way invited me to a “Catechetical Symphonic Celebration.”  It was aRead More