Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Elizabeth Ramírez. The eleventh graduation of the Child Jesus Nutrition Center was held on July 6th. The center is directed by the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in La Victoria, Dominican Republic.        Read More
ARGENTINA, Fr. Tommy Dell'Oca. From July 4th-8th for the first time, an International Missionary Congress took place in Córdoba, Argentina; it was a dream come true. It was in 2008 when a group of seven from the Boys' Youth met in Buenos Aires to trace out a path toward 2014. They spoke for the first time of having the first International Missionary Congress in 2012.      Read More
ARGENTINA, Dr. Carlos Ferré/org. On Thursday, the 21st, the book "The Social Saint" - Father Kentenich's thinking and praxis about the Social Doctrine of the Church, written by Dr. Carlos Ferré, Director of the John Paul II Center of Studies of the Social Doctrine of the Church, from Argentina who is a member of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement, was presented in the City Council chamber of the City of San Miguel in the presence of the members of the City Council and the invited public.  Read More
ECUADOR, Father Eduardo Auza. “Our beloved MTA is the source of many joys.  She not only takes care of educating us in the faith and the depth of Christian values, but She is also a motivation to improve in very concrete and useful points of human life such as cultivating the intellect and appreciation for academics.  Everything She does in human and wholesome formation is a concern for Mary of the Covenant.” That was the experience of three Schoenstatt youth from the city of Quito, Ecuador, who will begin aRead More
PORTUGAL, Pedro Rocha E. Melo/Pe. Francisco Sobral. Several days ago, there was a program on Portuguese television that had as its theme: “Christ in business and neighbourly love as a management strategy.” A group of managers and directors belonging to the “Christ in the company” initiative, among them several members of the Schoenstatt Movement, developed the program together with Fr. Diogo Barata (a Schoenstatt Father).    Read More
GERMANY, Heike y Peter Späth / fma. A rainbow once again!   “It seems that one way or another the rainbow is now a part of Memhölz!” Tania Loriz exclaimed.  The afternoon before the celebration of May 20th, two large rainbows appeared over the mountain and Schoenstatt.  The rainbow that created so much enthusiasm in Tania and Stefan Loriz, the initiators of the “Basic course of education for parents” appeared on the afternoon of Monday after Pentecost during the team meeting that the Course was preparing – part two, for theRead More
PORTUGAL, Filipa Costa/fma. With great joy, selflessness and dedication, 30 volunteers will embark on an adventure of discovery as volunteers to Guinea-Bissau. The project Guinea-Mission started with the Girls' Youth in Lisbon, who want to go beyond their borders to give their "yes" to the invitation of Guinea's Bishop Pedro Zilli. On Saturday 12 February 2011, the holy Mass "On Pilgrimage to 2014" was celebrated in Covenant with Guinea-Bissau. There is a Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Campaign in Guinea-Bissau. She somehow arrived in that country, where sheRead More
PORTUGAL, Maria de Lurdes Paredes. In one-way or another, we feel imprisoned much of the time, without the freedom that all men desire. I think that serving a prison sentence is one of the harshest possible realities. I thought long and hard about taking up this apostolate. I was motivated by the translation of a reflection/prayer on Fr. Kentenich's testimony in Dachau, where he went of his own free will to give his life for his friends, but always with an unshakeable faith in Divine Providence andRead More
GERMANY, fma. The "I" in IKAF is growing. Amazement, followed by smiles and with some delay for translation, was the reaction of the participants at the meeting of the International Academy for Leaders at Schoenstatt auf'm Berg, Memholz. And indeed, through the presence of Fabrizio Usai from Rome, member of the founder generation of the Schoenstatt Family in Italy, programmer of schoenstatt.org, and by profession the leader of around a dozen colleagues, the meeting from 20-22 April had in fact become more international, and switched happily between German and EnglishRead More
CHILE, Alejandra Tike Felmer. Several days ago seminarians from the Saint Rafael Pontifical Major Seminary of the Diocese of Valparaíso, Chile, were invited to the Holy Water Shrine in Viña del Mar. The Rector, Claudio Ortiz Vásquez, celebrated the Eucharist at 12:00 p.m., Father Alfonso Boess, a Schoenstatt Father con-celebrated. On a very sunny, heavenly day, the Shrine was vibrant with the youth choir and surrounded with a profound atmosphere of prayer, which a great number of women, who accompanied the celebration, experienced.  Read More