Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

PARAGUAY/INTERNATIONAL,  from Maria Fischer • “Will we get a hundred?” “Let us trust in the solidarity of our people.” “But no answers have arrived … either from the Team or elsewhere …” “Calm down! God probably has a different timescale to ours.” “At any rate he has more patience than I have, we are already in the Jubilee Year and nothing ….” “And if no answer comes, we have to accept it, we always work that way…” Stop! We are not in 2013 and the beginning of a crazy ideaRead More
Editorial staff • Again. Again deaths, injured, desperate families,  horrified friends. This time, in Lahore, in Pakistan and just at Easter. At least 65 people are dead and more than 300 seriously injured after the suicide attack on this Easter Sunday. A heavy explosion in the parking lot of a park in the metropolis of Lahore. The explosive device detonated very close to the children’s swings. The park and the parking lot are full of families. Most of the dead are children and their mothers. The Taliban have confessed thatRead More
MEXICO, Mayra Delgado de Yamallel • One night they called me to take the Pilgrim Mother for babies to a couple that had not been able to have a family, but were now in the fifth month of pregnancy with triplets. The woman was experiencing premature delivery, and they were at the hospital. “Why don’t you let me glue you, Blessed Mother?” Meanwhile another couple had the Pilgrim Mother, so early that morning, I went to get her to take her to the triplets’ mother. Upon leaving, the person whoRead More
ARGENTINA/SPAIN/ CHILE / CUBA, by Mercedes MacDonough and Maria Fischer • Precisely Cuba. Among all the possible places in the world, the historic encounter of 12 February – The embrace between Patriarch Kirill from Moscow and Pope Francis –actually took place in Cuba at the Havana airport. During the encounter, they signed a joint declaration. After two hours of intense conversation, the Pope and the Patriarch went to a hall in the airport, where President Raúl Castro waited for them to sign a joint Declaration. It is based on thirtyRead More
Editorial staff • Once again. Once again innocent victims who lost their lives or were seriously injured. Once again families and friends in pain. Once again doctors, policemen, priests, journalists working beyond exhaustion to save lives, to comfort, to provide  security, to spread less  panic and more clarity … Let us all be Brussels. We are all Brussels. United in prayer, in solidarity, in capital of grace,  in pain. We are in the Holy Week. The Way of the Cross of Jesus is not a tale from past times. IsRead More
URUGUAY, by Sarita Ruibal • 18 February, the Illuminated Rosary prayed at the Punta del Este wayside shrine was said especially for Project Student Support of the Diocese of Maldonado, coordinated by Sarita Ruibal, a missionary of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign. The scholarships were presented in March at the bishopric of Maldonado. The Diocesan Bishop, Rodolfo Wirtz, several of the volunteers who work at Project Student Support and the youths and their families attended. This year thirty-five scholarships were awarded, twenty-four were full scholarships, meaning that they include school supplies,Read More
PARAGUAY, Youth Ministry of Pedro Juan Caballero, by Elvira Boveda and Mima Cardona• Can you imagine the Blessed Mother, the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt, walking through the streets of an area affected strongly by dengue fever and cleaning places mosquito incubate that transmit this disease?  There’s no need to imagine it, we have the photos to prove it, yes, with Mary combatting dengue fever in Pedro Juan Caballero, the Department of Amambay capital in Paraguay. We have photos of Mary, walking through this city with the young people ofRead More
GERMANY, Renate Immler • The guests of the Lenten Action at the Joseph Kentenich School, at Kempten-Leubas, were surprised at the incredible commitment of the students.  They voluntarily accepted selling tickets for food and drinks as well as delivering cakes.  Some students offered the visitors interesting guided tours for adults and little ones, and some school games.  “I am very impressed with the students.  It is evident they are very happy at this school and that they joyfully commit themselves.  They behaved very well at this event, despite being watchedRead More
PARAGUAY, by Marité and Ramón Marini. With material from ABC color • On 5 March 2016, the Family Federation held a start-up gathering, but Coco Pereira did not participate.  The reason:  that Saturday, evaluations for people born with cleft lip and/or cleft palate, who need comprehensive medical care, began at 8:00 a.m. at the Central Military Hospital at (Gra. Diaz and Hernadarias, Asunción).  The medical surgeon, Dr. Orlando “Coco” Pereira is one of the many professionals who voluntarily care for people with these malformations. Operation Smile The doctors operated onRead More
URUGUAY, by María Lluberas • Although not everyone sees it, many believe that the Salto wayside shrine was the Blessed Mother’s dream for many years, long before these past two years when we were working on “conquering” it strongly within the groups. Why do we believe this?  Because as the days pass, we are becoming aware of more stories that associate the Blessed Mother with this little square, this area, with the neighborhood and its people. Day of the blessing A dump– transformed into a shrine Let us recall:  TheRead More