Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

GERMANY, Norbert y Gertrud Jehle. Will it work?  Should we offer a marriage preparation course during Holy Week in Memhölz? Father Busse, Matthias and Carolin Platzer, Regina and Patrick Klausmann and Gertrud and Norbert Jehle dared.  They distributed invitations mainly in the neighboring parishes and the response was great.  But interest alone does not mean participation.  So when four couples had registered at the end of March, the decision was clear:  the course would be held!  Two weeks before the fifth registration arrived.  And then three days before the startRead More
COSTA RICA, Manuel E. Hernández, Rudolf Sauter. Pope Francis furthers the process of the Second Ibero-American Congress of Schoenstatt Businessmen and Executives CIEES 2013’s conclusions through the Apostolic Exhortation the Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium).Read More
ARGENTINA, Claudia Lell. The idea emerged when some missionaries from the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign in Crespo (province of Entre Rios) saw a picture in the Catholic weekly Cristo Hoy (Christ Today)of Pope Francis with a paper fan made in the shape of “little feet”. Was it a proposal for Holy Week at San José School? With much enthusiasm the “Messengers of Mary” – missionary children of the Campaign – made silhouettes of tiny feet with the slogan: what is my proposal for this Holy Week?Read More
CHILE, mda. "In Portugal, in Schoenstatt Germany, Belmonte Rome, Santa María Brazil, Atibaia Brazil, Córdoba Argentina, Buenos Aires Argentina, Tucumán Argentina, Madrid Spain, Austria, Bolivia, Switzerland, South Africa…and wherever there are members of Schoenstatt.org they are praying in covenant solidarity with the victims in Valparaiso and those who are fighting the fire," wrote Carmen Rogers from Santiago to the Movement as members offered up prayers.  At the same time, she was also in contact with Bellavista, where they were working to channel aid to the Agua Santa Shrine in Valparaiso.  "IRead More
ARGENTINA, Silvia Santo/Mercedes MacDonough. Some months ago the Pilgrim MTA arrived in Jabarovsk in Siberia, a city situated to the Amur River, close to the border with China. She is on mission there by Father Iván Flores from Argentina, who found schoenstatt.org some time ago and he made contact asking for Blessed Mother holy cards. There was a restlessness to also send a Pilgrim MTA to the peripheries…and Mercedes MacDonough, a missionary of the campaign in Argentina assumed the task: she sent a Pilgrim MTA to "the peripheries". Read More
CHILE/INTERNATIONAL, mda. Pope Francis was among the first to address the Chilean people after the strong earthquake that shook the northern area of the country on April 2nd. On the same day, he manifested his closeness and affection for the people of Chile. He wrote to Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile and president of the Episcopal Conference of this country that he felt "deeply affected" by the 8.2 (on the Richter scale) earthquake that shook the northern area of the country, affecting the populations of Iquique,Read More
PARAGUAY, José Aníbal Argüello Rojas. In 1999 the Catholic University Missions were born when a group of girls, who belong to the Girls’ Youth of Asunción, traveled to Chile, where they learned about the project, Country Mission. They then returned and applied it to Paraguay. This year they are preparing to carry out its 15th edition during Holy Week between Tuesday, April 15th to Sunday, the 20th, where more than 700 hundred university students from different parts of the country will be on mission in eight communities in the interiorRead More
ARGENTINA/CHILE, Marcos Tejada. My Mary’s Crusade began about a year ago when our Branch adviser, Father José María Iturrería, brought together a few of the members of the Boys’ Youth from Mendoza to be a part of the organizational team at the conclusion of the Via Jesum University Missions.  It was at this time that emotions from such an experience of love only for our beloved MTA began to materialize!    Read More
GERMANY, Renate Immler. At the moment all you hear in Durach are the words, "I would NEVER have thought it possible." They are talking about the election of the mayor in Durach, with results that far exceeded all expectations. They are talking about a candidate for the position of mayor who was a complete outsider opposing the local school principal (CSU - Christian Socialist Union). He had the worst possible prospects for his election campaign. It was impossible, people thought, for him to succeed against "one of our own", andRead More
PARAGUAY, mda/Dequení. On March 4th the program to present school backpacks officially began during a simple but joyful gathering of children with sponsors and volunteers of Dequeni. The event was held in the Main House of Fernando de la Mora. Year after year, hundreds of children from very poor families have the opportunity to study and thus break the vicious cycle generated by the lack of schooling and poverty thanks to donors in solidarity from Paraguay as well as from other countries. Children like Marco Antonio FloresRead More