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ARGENTINA, by Rosita Ciola • This year El Palomar experienced a wonderful Pentecost!  The Holy Spirit was intensely present and along with Mary left an extremely special gift… Mary, head of the Cenacle The community of St. Michael the Archangel, which belongs to Barrio Aeronáutico, departed from Morón and gathered around the Blessed Mother to implore the coming of the Holy Spirit.  Many missionaries from the Morón Diocese and other neighboring dioceses arrived, and after greetings, hugs and demonstrations of joy at reconnecting with so many beloved people, they tookRead More
BRAZIL by Francisco Alves de Souza/Helef Ferreira • On Sunday 5 June, while the Church celebrated the 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Schoenstatt Movement in the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mauriti/CE went on a Jubilee Holy Year of Mercy pilgrimage to the Divine Mercy Diocesan Shrine, which is also dedicated to St. Anthony. More than 900 pilgrims joined the pilgrimage. These included Pilgrim Mother missionaries and their Pilgrim Mothers (there were at least 214 Pilgrim Mothers), members of the Men’s Mother and Queen Rosary, and members of the Children’sRead More
USA, Sr. M. Isabel • 10-12 June, the USA’s (and Canada’s) Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign state leaders met in the Father Kentenich Hall, at the Schoenstatt Center, Waukesha, Wisconsin. As the culmination of a long day of discussions on how to continue making the SRC a great apostolate in these new times, the state leaders crowned the Auxiliary MTAs. These images came from Louisiana, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, New York, Wisconsin and Canada. A weekend of great blessings and very intense discussions had its climax in a simple yetRead More
ARGENTINA, by Verónica Presas • The crowning of the Blessed Mother, the capital of grace offered for more than twenty-five years at every Mass, every Rosary that was prayed and lived near her picture at the Parish Wayside Shrine, and the Covenants of Love sealed by hearts who are present today and those who are now absent, are bearing fruitful in Trelew, a city located in the lower valley of the Chubut River, in the department of Rawson in the northeastern province of Chubut in the Argentinean Patagonia. Fr. EstebanRead More
ARGENTINA, by Mercedes MacDonough and María Fischer • During the Angelus on Sunday, 29 May, after celebrating the jubilee Mass for in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis reminded the participants for the celebration on Wednesday, 1 June, for the International Children’s Gathering and he communicated a special initiative: “Next Wednesday, 1 June, on the occasion of the International Children’s Day, the Christian communities of Syria, both Catholic and Orthodox, together will raise a special prayer for peace, which will have children themselves as its protagonists. The Syrian children invite childrenRead More
PARAGUAY, Amada Girett and María Fischer • Many people had been waiting for 18 May in Santa Rita, department of Alto Paraná. Francisco Pistilli, Bishop of Encarnación, was visiting to celebrate covenant day with the young and vigorous community of this city, and to present the Pilgrim Mothers to a large number of children; who along with their companions had been prepared by Adriana, a Pilgrim Mother missionary, to be the Blessed Mother’s little missionaries. Waiting eagerly The expectation was already growing the previous week. In a brief visit toRead More
PARAGUAY, by Rafael Vera • Today, on Workers’ Day, together with Alberto Léon from Chile, we had the opportunity to visit Nichoás, who is blind; Cipriano, who is in a different capacity; and Valentina, who is bedridden. The Blessed Mother used us as instruments to visit her children. It was a moving experience to see Nicolás feeling the beautiful image of our Mother, the Pilgrim Mother for the Blind, carved in wood so that she can be “seen” by touching her. She recently arrived from Argentina where the Pilgrim MotherRead More
ITALY, via siciliaschoenstatt • On Sunday, April 10 at the Saraceni Hotel – Island of the Women, was held the Regional Conference of the Schoenstatt Family in Sicily. About 1,300 people were present, coming from different dioceses of Sicily: Mazara del Vallo, Monreale, Messina, Agrigento, from the Eparchy of Piana of the Albanians and from the Diocese of Palermo greatest in number. The periods of formation were held by: Don Daniel Lozano, a member of the General Directorate of the Institute of Schoenstatt Diocesan Priests, and Rector of the ShrineRead More
ITALY, Virginia, 9, of San Matteo Parish Ap. Ev. Marsala, Sicily • My name is Virginia, I’m 9 years old, and I attend 4th grade and the 2nd year of the First Communion Catechism at San Matteo Parish in Marsala [St. Matthew’s]. Today I want to testify about the love that Our Lady has brought into our homes on behalf of the whole of the catechism class. We learned of the Mother Thrice Admirable during our first year of catechism; it was Maria our catechist and a childhood friend ofRead More
PARAGUAY, by Claudio Manavella and Maria Fischer • Claudio Manavella, from Asunción, is a civil engineer, who belongs to Mima and Juan Carlos Cardona’s circle; they are the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign’s great apostles in Paraguay’s interior. A few days ago, he was traveling between Yergos and Moisés Bertoni with his son when he had an encounter that he videotaped and went viral within the Paraguayan Schoenstatt Movement. “I was the one who experienced that wonderful experience of meeting my Blessed Mother on one of the many inhospitable roads I travel becauseRead More