Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

ARGENTINA, Guillermo Elcano. The members of the Family Missions of the Schoenstatt Movement from La Plata arrived in Pringles on Saturday afternoon, January 26th.  On Sunday, January 27th, they began to walk the streets of the neighborhoods of Saint Peter’s Chapel.    Read More
USA, Wayne Wang. Inspired by the Schoenstatt university missions in Chile, a small group of students set out to offer Austin, Schoenstatt, and the MTA the first university mission of Texas. This is after five years of the university men’s and women’s branches at the University of Texas at Austin working in conjunction with the initiative of Operation Mario from Chile, with the experience of the first two graces of the Shrine, the grace of feeling at home and the grace of inner transformation, and fruition of the third grace,Read More
BRAZIL, mda. This Sunday, the tragic news flew around the world that in the early hours of Sunday morning at least 245 people died in a tragic fire at a club in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The Santa Maria Police confirmed the final number of people, who lost their lives, but rescue operations continue at the scene of the accident and the local hospitals are still working to save lives. Santa Maria is the home of the Tabor Shrine, internationally known within the Apostolic SchoenstattRead More
ARGENTINA, Lilita and Carlos Ricciardi. The Family Missions of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement began January 21, 2013. The missions will be held in the area of Mundo Nuevo, Departamento of Rivadavia from January 21st to January 26th in Piedras Blancas, Province of Entre Rios from January January 29th to February 3rd, and in Coronel Pringles, Province of Buenos Aires from January 26th to February 2nd. A group of couples with their children and other youths go on mission as a family and for families: they give upRead More
SPAIN, Pedro Schoch. For more than three years, a group of men gather every other Saturday at dawn in the Shrines of Pozuelo and Madrid to share a time of prayer and meditation close to the Blesssed Mother and the Lord. These events end at approximately ten o'clock in the morning with a breakfast, where they discuss the subject of the prayer group in an animated and open conversation, which contributes to reinforce the attachments among the members of the community of Daybreakers, the name of this prayer group.Read More
BRAZIL, Priscila Bernardo. In the early hours of Christmas Day, the youth in Jaraguá – a suburb in São Paulo – took to the streets to hand out panettone, cold drink and cards to those who don't have the opportunity to enjoy Christmas dinner – the street people in São Paulo's city centre.      Read More
mda. "I read in an article that the Pilgrim Mother is in the Ukraine. Who brought her there? How can I contact them?" – "A family in Portugal is thinking about emigrating to Canada. Where can they find Schoenstatt in Canada?" "I am a doctor in Venezuela and heard about Schoenstatt through a Novena to the Mother Thrice Admirable. Where can I find people in Caracas with whom I can share my enthusiasm about Schoenstatt?" "Does anyone have the book 'Organische Aszese' and no longer uses it?" "Where can IRead More
USA, Megan McQuaid. “The love that they receive in the shrine is the love that they give in their apostolate, and which they want to renew daily; they want this missionary fire to pass from hand to hand and from heart to heart as a torch that should never be extinguished." –Fr. Tommy Dell’Oca. The Schoenstatt University branches in Austin, Texas, want to be the next to carry the torch of the missionary fire with a new initiative: the Austin CARITAS Crusade. James Van Matre and other University men andRead More
BRAZIL, Volny Enrique Martoni. At the start of December, the "6th Oh Mary - Men's Vigil" took place at the Tabor Foundation of Schoenstatt Shrine in Jacarezinho, Brazil. One hundred and fifty nine men from Jacarezinho, Ourinhos, Abatiá, Ibiporã, Santa Cruz, Conselheiro Mairinck, Marília, and Bandeirantes took part.      Read More
PARAGUAY, Noelia Ferreira/fma. Greetings to my sponsor Elizabeth, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and together with my family, I send you this greeting": Liz Paola, 14 years old, smiles shyly as she holds out the card with her message. This is how she greets her sponsor, via email, who lives in a distant country, in Germany. Her German sponsor, who turned 80 today, has made it possible for this girl from a poor family in Paraguay to attend school for the last eight years.Read More