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CRUZADA DE MARIA, Facundo Ríos • Last Monday, they reached the goal. On 20 January, 120 young men from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Portugal deepened in the Cruzada de María, on the seventh edition of a journey that consisted of walking 400 kilometers and crossing the Andes Mountain Range, from the Mendoza shrine to the Bellavista Shrine (Santiago, Chile) on an adventure that lasted seventeen days. One of them, Facundo Ríos from San Isidro, Argentina summarizes his impressions in a letter addressed to the other crusadersRead More
CRUZADA DE MARIA, Juan Pablo Leucke • Last Monday, they reached the goal. On 20 January, 120 young men from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Portugal deepened in the Cruzada de María, on the seventh edition of a journey consisting of walking 400 kilometers and crossing the Andes Mountain Range, from the Mendoza shrine to the Bellavista Shrine (Santiago, Chile) on an adventure that lasted seventeen days. We asked one of them to share his personal testimony. – When one must tell something like this experience, theRead More
PARAGUAY, Ricardo Acosta • 31 January 2018, a hot afternoon, Mother of Tupãrenda House prepared for the graduation of three participants, the first of 2018. The other companions were also very expectant of what was going to happen, since it was the first experience for some. All of them were dressed in their best clothes, and the brand-new graduates as well as those who would receive sacraments got ready for a big celebration. The ceremony began with the Holy Eucharistic in the shadow of the Tupãrenda Shrine, accompanied by relatives,Read More
ARGENTINA, by Giselle Vargas, ACI Prensa, and Claudia Echenique • Fr. Santiago Arriola is convinced that “our entire life, in all its expressions and dimensions, asks for and can be evangelized,” thus, along with Fr. Pablo Etchepareborda, they decided to initiate a “Surfing Ministry” on Argentina’s Mar del Plata. While it is in the “process of development” without any outline or defined timeline, there are two experiences that have encouraged the continuation of these gatherings. The first experience was in Summer 2016, when Fr. Pablo Etchepareborda blessed the boards, sea,Read More
PARAGUAY, Dequení and editorial team • Two teenage girls from Arroyos y Esteros, and San Ignacio, Misiones, took the voices of children and youths from Paraguay to the End Violence Solutions Summit on 14 and 15 February in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Government in cooperation with the Global Alliance and Global Partnership to end the violence against children gathering organized the event. This is about Ángeles (17) and Leticia (15), active leaders in their communities, through Canadian Christian Foundation for Children and Aldeas Infantiles SOS (SOS Children’s Villages) Paraguay, respectively.Read More
GERMANY, Renate Immler und Maria Fischer • Many did not believe in it, a few had doubts … and a few were not deterred, not even by the lack of money, empty information events and skepticism wherever one looked.  If you dream about something very hard, then it’s almost there.  And then it happens, and you know: it is right. Meanwhile, the Josef Kentenich School has existed for five years.  Following the example of the Memhoelzer Conference, a very dynamic school conference held in November 2017.  Along with parents, students,Read More
COSTA RICA, Margarita Morera de Escorriola • Some of the couples went in total agreement toward growing on their way to marriage, but others went to please a fiancé that had cajoled or pleaded beforehand. Thus on Sunday, 21 January 2018, forty-four couples met in the first Gathering for Engaged Couples, held in the Family of Hope Shrine in San José, Costa Rica. The requirements for participating in the Gathering “Getting to know one another as a Couple” were that both had to be over the age of 18 havingRead More
CRUZADA DE MARÍA, José Argüello and Maria Fischer The media and members of schoenstatt.org editorial team’s prayers along with many more all over the world have accompanied them. Participants of a spiritual retreat in Lisbon, Portugal, prayed for them during the Mass, the Schoenstatt Family from Tucumán, Argentina, is praying, especially for six members of the Boys’ Youth from Tucumán who are a part of Cruzada de Maria. On the walk through the Andes Mountain Range, on Sunday, 28 January, they arrived at Christ the Redeemer Monument of Peace erectedRead More
Franz Reinisch
GERMANY, Press Office of Wurzburg Diocese/Markus Hauck and editors • Two weeks ago we first published a report on “The Musical of an Upright Man”. Thanks to information provided by Fr Armin Haas of the Schoenstatt Priests’ Federation, and material from the regional dean, Fr Martin Emge, of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, we published an article on this musical about Fr Franz Reinisch, a person who was both upright and dangerous to the Nazi “Reich”, and an equally creative and inconvenient thinker, because of his passion for freedomRead More
PARAGUAY, Revista Tupãrenda • At the Tupãrenda Shrine’s facilities, a group of men and women gather to learn culinary techniques, as part of a program called “Career advancement.” This program is aimed at breadwinners or generally interested persons, to train them in a profession with immediate job opportunities, and encouraging their own entrepreneurship. Liz Vega, a member of the Schoenstatt Movement, is the instructor; she has passed on her knowledge for six years as a service to the Blessed Mother. Twenty people, twenty entrepreneurs Currently twenty people are beneficiaries; theyRead More