Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

PARAGUAY - Marriage and Family. Ministry of Hope, a Christian project for life is the initiative of the Family Work in Paraguay. It wants to be a response from the Church to welcome and retain the couples in which one or both have partners has separated (or divorced) and has formed a new relationship. It is a ministry for the Church as Mother and Teacher to fulfill its mission of leading all baptized persons to salvation and can help them find their place within the Church. LaterRead More
Sarah-Leah Pimentel. It is impossible to watch the news and not be moved by the images we see of the situation in Syria and Egypt.  The cameras have done little to spare us the assault on the senses as we watch blood running through the streets, countless bodies of little children, mounds of cement of what was once someone's home.Read More
PARAGUAY, Anneke and Roberto Galeano. We have been blessed to participate in the Schoenstatt Family Missions since 1999, when we were engaged, married, and then became missionary parents. We want to relate this because the Family Missions are an apostolic activity that our souls ask of us and that being Christian demands of us. To go on mission every year fills us with the love of Mary and her Son, it is our "cable to heaven" that fills us with grace to be Her instruments throughout the year.Read More
PARAGUAY, Dequeni. Doña Georgina Jarbién – better known in her community as Doña Blanca, Doña being a title of respect for women in Spanish speaking countries – is a member of the Parents’ Committee and an active collaborator in all activities for the common good, which are undertaken in El Triunfo de Caaguazú.  Read More
APOSTOLIC PROJECTS OF COVENANT CULTURE - FAMILY. The Fr. Joseph Kentenich Bioethics Commission in Argentina is a group of twenty professionals from various fields (medicine, philosophy, theology, law, economics, psychiatry, media) who, under the auspices of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, want to respond to all of the dilemmas that technology has posed on life issues which deeply affect the decisions of married couples and families.Read More
PROJECTS OF COVENANT CULTURE - PEDAGOGY. CLETARP is a non-profit institution, which promotes the training and development of persons with different skills so that their human rights may be respected, and have the opportunity for training.  They promote their being included socially in an effective way and their demonstrating that they can be useful and productive in their community.  Read More
PARAGUAY/INTERNATIONAL, mda. "This wonderful idea will definitely catch on! You can be sure that the shrine in Dietershausen will also be involved. I shall see to that!" Sabine M. hadn't even really heard properly what the idea was about when she decided to join in. It sometimes happens that a "quiet favourite idea" isn't even properly expressed before it spreads. ... Fr Kentenich always did it this way – first of all he passed the idea to a small group and then waited, watched, and then, when it had awakenedRead More
SPAIN, Fátima Alvaredo, mda. "It has been a marvelous experience for me. It has made me leave the comfort of my daily life and approach my neighbor. What I have found is dignity. Since that day, when I stroll through Madrid and see people on the ground, I become aware of how many people we pass by without looking them in the face. It has made me think. I have met Christ in them. I love this Schoenstatt," writes Leonor in a commentary noteRead More
GERMANY, fma. "Dear Lord, please give me the wisdom to understand my boss. Give me the love to forgive him. Give me the patience to fathom his actions. Because if you give me the strength, I will give him a hiding." This text card with a baby's photo is also a way of coping with tensions, or reducing them. That there are a great many more possibilities, and also a great many more sources of tensions than the classic "Boss - employee" tension, is something the participants at the Jour Fixe forRead More
mev/mda. Ever since the 1920s Fr Kentenich has always connected the subject of the world of work, and the culture of work and leadership in the economy, with the social question. It is a subject to which committed Schoenstatters who are concerned with forming a new social order feel indebted.    Read More