Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

San Antonio de Coronado
COSTA RICA, pjlc • Today, June 18th, Covenant of Love Renewal Day with the Blessed Mother, a group of 25 missionaries of the Pilgrim MTA from the Parish of San Antonio de Padua in Coronado, said their magnanimous YES to the Blessed Mother, sealing their Covenant of Love. — Father Reyner Castro always motivates to celebrate the 18th of each month in the Parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Coronado, in the province of San José, where he, a Schoenstatt Diocesan Priest, is the parish priest. He especially invitesRead More
Cartago
COSTA RICA, Mary Cruz Coto • On the Feast of the “Visitation of Mary” – the Feast of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign – on May 31, 20 new missionaries of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign were sent out in Cartago. – And it is precisely the example of Mary’s mission that the Gospel shows us that invites these missionaries to go in search of those who need help through the image of the Blessed Mother in the different modalities of the Campaign. Mary is the great missionary, she always has anRead More
Casa del Niño Florencio Varela
ARGENTINA, Gabriela Sarquis • On Monday, June 5th, at the Casa del Niño Father Joseph Kentenich, we sent out the Pilgrim MTA’s that will visit the homes of the families of the children in Florencio Varela, who attend the House and also the management staff, counselors, kitchen and cleaning staff. — What a network of bonds the great Missionary is creating among so many people who, from their gifts and tasks, unite in the effort to give an opportunity to 300 children from low-income families. The parents, the volunteers ofRead More
Colegio Covenant
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • During the month of May, the Covenant School’s pastoral team carried out an activity with the elementary students about our Blessed Mother inspired by Joseph Engling’s “Flowers of May”.  — They were introduced to the personal history of this first congregant and his way of giving gifts to Mary. A picture of Joseph Engling at the School Throughout the month they offered different gifts that they captured in drawings of flowers that they gave to the Blessed Mother as a capital of grace. Just like Joseph,Read More
Colegio Covenant
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • In the days before the celebration of Pentecost, a group of students from the primary level of Covenant School in Gonnet received the sacrament of Confirmation in the Parish “Our Lady of the Visitation”, to which our School belongs. — As part of the preparation, each one of them decorated their confirmation candle with a drawing they designed themselves. In it, they captured their personal characteristics linked to the mission that each one felt they have to give to God to conquer a better world. FlameRead More
Traktorwallffahrt
GERMANY, Renate Siebenkäs • The Schoenstatt Movement of the Archdiocese of Bamberg in Germany invites this year for the first time to a tractor pilgrimage to Marienberg, to the Shrine of Unity. Pure popular piety, and under the motto: What draws us. — Departure is Sunday, 04.06.23, around 14:00. The volunteer fire department Dörrnwasserlos regulates the parking. Many thanks for it! At 14:30 we will celebrate a pilgrimage prayer in front of the Shrine of Unity. Afterwards, each tractor will be blessed individually and each driver, each female driver personally.Read More
Il 19 maggio pomeriggio si è svolto, nella parrocchia dei Santi Patroni di Roma (retta dai padri di Schoenstatt) la riunione del Caffè delle coppie
ITALY, Eugenio Minici and Vanda Rebuffat • On the afternoon of the 19th of May, the Café for Couples took place in the Parish of the Patron Saints in Rome, under the direction of the Schoenstatt Fathers. It is an offer of an afternoon of rest and deepening of unity as a couple, of walking together and of original freshness. — The day began with the “couples’ game”, questions for the couples to get to know each other better in the group of couples present. After the game, some themesRead More
Tomás Carrasco Cortés, nuevo obispo de Calama
CHILE, iglesia.cl / Fr. José Luis Correa • Pope Francis has appointed as bishop of Calama the priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, until now pastor of La Sagrada Familia in the city of Los Angeles and advisor to the Madrugadores. — The priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, was born on November 13, 1970 in El Huachi, rural sector of Santa Bárbara, Biobío region; being the third of six siblings. He received his elementary education in a rural school in Santa Barbara and his secondary education in the Liceo A-59 ofRead More
Perú
PERU, Fr. Rafael Reategui, Fr. José Luis Correa • On May 13, in the midst of a very tense and uncertain political situation, Fr. Rafael Reategui presented the President of the Republic of Peru with a picture of the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt. — Fr. Rafael Reategui, who sealed his covenant with the Blessed Mother in 2005, is pastor in Manchay, a poor area on the outskirts of Lima. The president, Dina Boluarte Zegarra, said she wants to put the image of the Blessed Mother in the presidential office.Read More
Alianza de Amor de profesores del Colegio San José de La Comuna
ECUADOR, Fr. Rafael Amaya/mf • On May 9, the teachers of our school San José de la Comuna in the Shrine of Quito united in the Covenant of Love with Mary. — The San José de La Comuna School, a work of the Niños de María Foundation, is a school for some 300 children in the La Comuna neighborhood, an area that is not only characterized by its material poverty, but there is a total lack of values and an internal poverty that often marks more than the material. ARead More