Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

ITALY, Trent, by Milena Allera • Last year I got to know the Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother through one of my colleagues, Gisela Ciola, who is a Pilgrim Mother missionary. Gisela had the same health problems that my dad was going through and she offered me the image of the Blessed Mother to take home and keep for a few days.  I accepted it with great joy and a little trepidation.  Was I worthy of such greatness? This is how Our Lady of Schoenstatt came into my life and the lifeRead More
From Archbishop Emeritus Robert Zollitsch DD, Freiburg, Member of the Institute of Schoenstatt Diocesan Priests • When I watch the news about the wave of refugees and their camps in Greece on TV; when I read the press reports on the number of asylum seekers or even the arson attacks on homes for asylum seekers, I sometimes think: How would it be if I was one of them and had to experience personally what they are going through? So it is one of my greatest aims to make the peopleRead More
ITALY, Salvatore Rallo, Claudia Geraci, Antonella Raimondi • Finally also in Vicari, a small town inland from Palermo, on Friday, June 10, 2016, thirteen missionary women have sealed the Covenant of Love with our Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt. It took a year of preparation, but thanks to the constant and committed participation of the missionaries, our “provocations” – which at times have possibly been or even been seemingly excessive – we have reached this milestone. The promptings have had a positive effect when they were a stimulus and whenRead More

Posted On 06.07.2016In Projects

Women making noise

CHILE, by Verónica Ciudad Pap • The Alégrate mujer [Rejoice woman] management team is concerned about events in Chile and the world, and faithful to the gift they gave the Father and Founder on the centenary of the Covenant of Love as they travel throughout Chile training and evaluating monitors so the fruitfulness of this apostolate can reach every corner of their country. Management team: Carola Gerstle, Paulina Respaldiza, María de la Luz Ferrada, Margarita Popelka, Alejandra Tike, Marcela Bustos, Verónica Ciudad. Adviser: Sr. M. Yerthy A little history TheyRead More
By Cristina White, Campaign lay-adviser in the Argentinean Nueve de Julio Diocese on the anniversary of Joao Pozzobon’s death • In September 2004, a friend invited me on pilgrimage to Rome for the Belmonte Shrine blessing.  The day we arrived, which was the eve of the blessing, all the international Schoenstatt pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for a large celebration to be held in the Vatican Gardens at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto. As a missionary of the Campaign, I had a Pilgrim Mother that Fr. Esteban Uriburu hadRead More
ARGENTINA, by Rosita Ciola • This year El Palomar experienced a wonderful Pentecost!  The Holy Spirit was intensely present and along with Mary left an extremely special gift… Mary, head of the Cenacle The community of St. Michael the Archangel, which belongs to Barrio Aeronáutico, departed from Morón and gathered around the Blessed Mother to implore the coming of the Holy Spirit.  Many missionaries from the Morón Diocese and other neighboring dioceses arrived, and after greetings, hugs and demonstrations of joy at reconnecting with so many beloved people, they tookRead More
BRAZIL by Francisco Alves de Souza/Helef Ferreira • On Sunday 5 June, while the Church celebrated the 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Schoenstatt Movement in the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mauriti/CE went on a Jubilee Holy Year of Mercy pilgrimage to the Divine Mercy Diocesan Shrine, which is also dedicated to St. Anthony. More than 900 pilgrims joined the pilgrimage. These included Pilgrim Mother missionaries and their Pilgrim Mothers (there were at least 214 Pilgrim Mothers), members of the Men’s Mother and Queen Rosary, and members of the Children’sRead More
USA, Sr. M. Isabel • 10-12 June, the USA’s (and Canada’s) Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign state leaders met in the Father Kentenich Hall, at the Schoenstatt Center, Waukesha, Wisconsin. As the culmination of a long day of discussions on how to continue making the SRC a great apostolate in these new times, the state leaders crowned the Auxiliary MTAs. These images came from Louisiana, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, New York, Wisconsin and Canada. A weekend of great blessings and very intense discussions had its climax in a simple yetRead More
MASACRE IN ORLANDO – COVENANT SOLIDARITY • “The terrible massacre that has taken place in Orlando, with its dreadfully high number of innocent victims, has caused in Pope Francis, and in all of us, the deepest feelings of horror and condemnation, of pain and turmoil before this new manifestation of homicidal folly and senseless hatred,” was the statement of the Holy See Press Office Director, Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ, released on 12 June, following the attack on a nightclub in Orlando in the United States, in which 53 people diedRead More
ARGENTINA, by Verónica Presas • The crowning of the Blessed Mother, the capital of grace offered for more than twenty-five years at every Mass, every Rosary that was prayed and lived near her picture at the Parish Wayside Shrine, and the Covenants of Love sealed by hearts who are present today and those who are now absent, are bearing fruitful in Trelew, a city located in the lower valley of the Chubut River, in the department of Rawson in the northeastern province of Chubut in the Argentinean Patagonia. Fr. EstebanRead More