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Posted On 24.04.2015In Covenant solidarity with Francis

Ah… like the Pope!!!

By Marité and Ramón Marini, Paraguay, Leaders of the Schoenstatt International Family Federation • We wanted to write this brief account to share of how the Holy Father generates positive attitudes in people with his simple testimony of daily life. Sometime ago we read that when Pope Francis was a bishop in Argentina, he had the habit of collecting the rubber bands that the person who brought the newspapers used; he would make a ball to leave for him close to the door. Each month as he paid him, heRead More

Posted On 19.04.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

Francis in the Americas

By Jorge José Armas, Generación Francisco – for schoenstatt.org • The attendance of the State Secretary of the Holy See, Pietro Parolin, at the 7th Summit of the Americas was one of the most significant events of the hemisphere’s politics in recent times. Not only did he attend but he was also the first speaker immediately after the inaugural speeches, where he read the message by Pope Francis to the presidents of the continent. Francis, in his message, made a strong call “to generate a new order of peace andRead More

Posted On 07.04.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Covenant Life

Encarnación Has Been Mission Territory, Today It Is Called to Be a Land of Missionaries

By Maria Fischer from Encarnación • The entire city of Encarnación, the “pearl of the south,” is celebrating. Posters, banners with the country’s and the Church’s colors are everywhere, the cathedral illuminated, a serenade by well-known artists: it is the eve of the great feast for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Encarnación, the city which bears the name of the great event which the entire universal Church celebrates on March 25th – the Incarnation of the Divine Word in the womb of Mary. “The Incarnation which we celebrateRead More

Posted On 28.03.2015In Covenant solidarity with Francis

Mandarins for Pope Francis

by Leti and Martín Pereira, Paraguay It’s in the small everyday things that the Blessed Mother gifts us with the greatest blessings, or as João Pozzobon use to say: “Mother takes care of everything.” We are Leti and Martín and we have been married for almost eight years. We live in Asunción and are parents to Mariana, the girl with mandarins for the Pope and who is about to turn five, and Juan Martín who is 11 months old. We are Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Campaign missionaries and belong to theRead More

Posted On 23.03.2015In Dilexit ecclesiam

Em. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch: Vision and Setting Out The Church on the Way into the Future (II)

“Pope Francis looks ahead and calls for a Church that sets out, because “God’s word constantly shows us how God challenges those who believe in him ‘to go forth’” (EG20). Those who only look back and want to preserve it, will lose the future. That is why our Holy Father urges us “to move from a pastoral ministry of mere conservation to a decidedly missionary pastoral ministry”.” Archbishop Emeritus Robert Zollitsch from Freiburg, and Head of the German Bishops’ Conference up until 2013, chose “Evangelii Gaudium” as the theme forRead More

Posted On 22.03.2015In Francis - Message

The great gift of children for humanity

FRANCIS IN ROME (VIS). After having looked at the different figures of family life – mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings – the Holy Father concluded this first set of catechesis on the family by speaking about children. On 18 March, he spoke about how children are a great gift for humanity and in the coming week, he will focus on the wounds of childhood. The family: Children Complete text of the Holy Father’s catechesis Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning! After having examined the different figures of family life – mother,Read More

Posted On 17.03.2015In Francis - Message

Old age “also contains a grace and a mission, a true vocation”

The value and importance of grandparents in the family was the theme of Pope Francis' catechesis at last Wednesday's general audience in St. Peters Square. First of all, Pope Francis said that he identified with the elderly because he is the same age as them. "When I was in the Philippines," he said jokingly, "the Filipino people greeted me, saying: 'Lolo Kiko,' – that is, Grandfather Francis," and emphasized that even though society has a tendency of casting aside the elderly, God doesn't do this. On the contrary, he callsRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Holy Year of Mercy – Challenge of covenant culture

VATICAN, Sr. M. Elizabet Parodi. I've just returned from St. Peter's Basilica. It was packed, as it always is when the Holy Father celebrates a liturgy. Today, two years since he started his pontificate, Pope Francis presided over a penitential liturgy. During the homily, in which he spoke about how God never tires of forgiving us, he announced that he had made a decision: with words that seemed to come from the depths of his heart he said that he was proclaiming a 'Holy Year of Mercy' which will beginRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Covenant solidarity with Francis

Two years with Francis – in covenant solidarity

org. How does Francis celebrate the anniversary of his election? By hearing confessions. On Friday 13 March, Pope Francis presided over a penitential celebrations in St. Peter's Basilica to begin the "24 hours for the Lord," promoted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation. It is an invitation to the Church everywhere in the world and the motto this year is "God rich in mercy." In his Lenten Message for 2015 Pope Francis said: "Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer! TheRead More

Posted On 15.03.2015In Dilexit ecclesiam

Em. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch: Vision and Setting Out The Church on the Way into the Future (I)

org. "Pope Francis looks ahead and calls for a Church that sets out, because “God’s word constantly shows us how God challenges those who believe in him ‘to go forth’” (EG20). Those who only look back and want to preserve it, will lose the future. That is why our Holy Father urges us “to move from a pastoral ministry of mere conservation to a decidedly missionary pastoral ministry”." Archbishop Emeritus Robert Zollitsch from Freiburg, and Head of the German Bishops' Conference up until 2013, chose "Evangelii Gaudium" as the themeRead More

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