Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

SPAIN, Tatiana García and Fernando Aymerich. "This is the best thing that has ever happened to us”.  This is how a couple described their experience on 18 January after the sending out celebration of the first course at the Joseph Kentenich Academy for Family Pedagogy in Spain.  For two years, five Spanish couples met on ten weekends, two weeks during the summer to complete their training as family trainers.Read More
MARY'S CRUSADE, mda. "Today we experienced an historic day, a day of grace. The Crusaders arrived to its highest point after climbing the hillside of the Andes…and there we found ourselves on the pinnacle with Christ the Redeemer! What an exciting moment for everyone!" Father José María Uturrería wrote to the editors of schoenstatt.org. The Wayside Shrine of the Blessed Mother in the Andes was blessed with a Mass and the great surprise of receiving a greeting and blessing from Holy Father Francis. Its foundation gathersRead More
MARY'S CRUSADE, Father José María Iturrería/Octavio Augusto Coria/mda. "We are at Puente de Inca. We have arrived to the Company of Hunters N° 8 of the Argentinean Army. We were welcomed very well by the soldiers and officers, who offered the amenities of the place. Today we had an easier day, with time for personal prayer and an evaluation of what Mary's Crusade has been as of now", Father José María Uturrería wrote via cell phone. "Meanwhile we are preparing for the final ascent to the LasRead More
RUSSIA/INTERNATIONAL, mda. "God is not afraid to go out to the outskirts", Pope Francis told the more than a thousand catechists at the end of September 2013, stressing that God always precedes us and if we are afraid to go to the outskirts, in reality He is already there". Go out to the outskirts: it is restlessness that schoenstatt.org has shared for years, that it has already reached 185 countries and to places that have never before been touched by the covenant of love. Like Jabarovsk inRead More
mda. Schoenstatt steps into the future, Schoenstatt goes App. At the start of 2014, Bernhard Fischer, a member of the Schoenstatt Family Branch in Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, developed an App to receive texts from the Father Kentenich Telephone on Schoenstatt.org. Available in six languages – French coming soon together with the French version of schoenstatt.org – smartphone users around the world can now receive a daily message from Father Kentenich.    Read More
CRUZADA DE MARÍA, Fr. José María Iturerría/mda. On 18 October, the first covenant day of 2014, the first photographs and greetings from Cruzada de Maria [Mary's Crusasde] 2014 arrived. "The ceramic image of the Blessed Mother, which we will place at the wayside shrine, is heading the pilgrimage together with the Mario Hiriart Cross and the Fackellauf torch, which was solemnly lit during the sending out Mass at the shrine in Mendoza," Fr. José María Ituerrería sent via smartphone. They are also carrying the contributions to the capital ofRead More
USA, Mark Chiarello and Rodrigo Fernandez. “Today too, as always, the Lord needs you, young people, for his Church... Today too, he is calling each of you to follow him in his Church and to be missionaries. The Lord is calling you today! Not the masses, but you, and you, and you, each one of you. Listen to what he is saying to you in your heart.” This is the message that a group of Schoenstatt University Men received from Pope Francis at last year’s World Youth Day. These wordsRead More
ARGENTINA, Francisco Oviedo/mda. The Family Missions of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement will be carried out from January 20th to 31st, in Villa Bastía, department of Tupungata, Province of Mendoza (from 1-20th to 26th) and in Coronel Pringles, province of Buenos Aires (1-24th to 31st).  A group of couples with their children and other youths will go on mission as a family and for families, sharing the joy that they feel of experiencing God’s love.  During this week, they will dedicate themselves to taking the Word of God and the VirginRead More
INTERNATIONAL, mda. What joy!  The torch for Mary’s Crusade, which was stranded at customs, arrived today!  Rarely has a tweet of Schoenstatt.org (@schoenstattorg) been disseminated as quickly as this, the afternoon of January 13, a few minutes away after receiving the email from Father Jose Maria Iturerria of Mendoza, Argentina:  “I want to transmit the good news! The Torch has come up to Mendoza! We don’t know how... but it’s here! So we thank you for the prayers and to the Blessed Mother for this small miracle! We continueRead More
INTERNATIONAL, mda. January 16th is finally almost here: 145 boys from eight countries - members of the Schoenstatt Boys Youth, diocesan priests, Schoenstatt Fathers and seminarians - will start out on the Jubilee edition of the Cruzada de Maria (Mary's Crusade), walking 400km across the Andes and uniting the shrines in Mendoza (Argentina) and Bellavista (Chile) during their pilgrimage.  They feel motivated by Pope Francis' call to go out on pilgrimage as living witnesses of the joy of the gospel, to BE the joy of the gospel.  The highlight ofRead More