Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

PARAGUAY, Ani Souberlich. It is 21:41 here in Paraguay and the temperature is still 34ºC.  So you can imagine how hot it was throughout the day…at 38ºC which felt like 42º C, heat that split the earth!  The good God organized everything perfectly since usually, today, December 23rd, it is a normal work day.  But His leadership was perfect, and today I had the day off from work and the people who collaborated did too. About a month ago, the idea emerged to distribute one hundred little Christmas bags toRead More
YOUTH,  Father Claudio Martinez/mda. Almost 200 youths will unite Argentina and Chile in a 400 kilometers’ course along the Andes Range throughout fifteen days. On January 16th, members from seven countries will begin a new version of this crusade whose meaning is to be a sign of international unity and of personal renewal and of faith – within the context of Pope Francis’ message.      Read More
YOUTH, Fr. José María Iturrería. The year 2014 has already begun; it is the year of the centenary of the Covenant of Love and of the Blessed Mother’s presence in the Schoenstatt Shrine.  It is a year of graces, and from the organizational team of the Mary’s Crusade, we want to share this beautiful news with all the Schoenstatters.      Read More
SPAIN, Fr. Jaime Vivancos. One more time this year, youths of Madrid’s Schoenstatt Movement wanted to bring a ray of hope from the Shrine to families and people who really are in need. Since Christmas 2002, the Schoenstatt Boys’ and Girls’ Youth of Madrid have been doing this with the cooperation of the families around the Shrines of Pozuelo and Serrano and the Monte Tabor School. The following are testimonies we gathered in order to share at schoenstatt.org about “Mostoles 2014”.Read More
PARAGUAY/INTERNACIONAL, mda. “Yesterday, the first Sunday of Advent, while I was visiting the site where a solidarity house was being built, I asked the Lord to prepare the way for the coming of His Son.  May Jesus be born in every Solidarity House this Holy Night, in the heart of each resident, so that this Christmas, they will have a roof over their heads.  Like Mary, they also left their people in search of "something better." Many of them are looking for something better to give their children.  Like MaryRead More
PARAGUAY/COSTA RICA, Sandra L. Lezcano. It is almost time to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of that first covenant of love that has conquered so many hearts for the Blessed Mother, and it has generated several generations of allies with strong mission awareness. To live Schoenstatt fully implies much more than joining the Movement and having a life group, to live Schoenstatt is to know, love and radiate the charism that our Founder and Father left us as an inheritance. It is to make a difference in the world,Read More
SPAIN, Fátima Alvarado/mda. Those who know Pope Francis well say that he may do the same in Rome as he did in his native Buenos Aires. Others know from statements by the "Vatican almsgiver" who said that "when I used to go out for the night, he sometimes asked me if he could come with me." When the Archbishop and Pope Francis' confidante was occasionally asked if this had really happened, he would simply smile mischievously, giving rise to suspicions. Does Francis/Bergoglio walk through the streets ofRead More
SPAIN, mda. “In my sharing at the Congress, I talked about leaving my comfort zone and assuming risks. It´s hard to believe but now back in my routine, I am still repeating this every day, and more intensely each time.  This is what I have been doing in my daily work and also in my personal life.  Let´s see what fruits will sprout up from this”, commented Marcelo Scocco, one of the Spanish participants at the CIEES in Costa Rica, exactly a month later. This is a congress that didRead More
SPAIN, Juan Zaforas. For one more year, the youths of the Schoenstatt Movement in Madrid want to take a ray of hope from the Shrine to families and people who really need it. They do it through the Christmas campaign in Móstoles.Read More
CHILE, mda. "God blessed this encounter enormously, helping us to humbly recognize that in the work world, we have the opportunity to incorporate God and the Blessed Mother more in our decisions departing from applying Practical Faith in Divine Providence (FPDP)", commented Christian Ketterer, Commercial Engineer, a Chilean participant of CIEES2013 in Costa Rica. But it does not end with beautiful memories. "At the same time, it invited us to be 'Fires that enkindle other fires,' to follow that path that we have been building in CIEES. Read More