Projects Category

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
CRUZADA DE MARIA 2018, Andrés Romero • The day began very early. We awoke at 4:00 am to get an early start in order to beat the sun. There is something unique in that first hour, it is quiet, and it helps us to conquer our inner mission. We set out already feeling the inconveniences, pain, and weariness from the previous day. We walked another 28 kilometers and through the silence and weariness, Christ became more and more present.   With every step I took, you were with me IRead More
BRAZIL, Vítor H. Possetti • Children and teens from the Catarina Kentenich Educational Center/Children’s Shelter carried out inspiring acts of solidarity at the end of the year in Sâo Paulo. Helping the neediest Inspired by the Christmas spirit and the end of the year, the children and teens of the Catarina Kentenich Educational  Center Shelter decided to carry out different acts of solidarity throughout Sâo Paulo. The majority of them are members of the Boys’ Youth (Jumas) and the Apostles. In the shadow of the Mother and Queen’s Shrine inRead More
CRUZADA DE MARÍA, José Argüello • On the morning of 20 January, at 7:00 am, after reflecting on our Family’s second milestone, we departed on the Cruzada de María (Mary’s Crusade) from the Mendoza Shrine. After a few minutes of walking on this Saturday, we encountered a group of four young people in a car at a corner; they were returning from a Friday celebration. A girl sitting in the back seat said in an Argentinean accent: “Chee…look at them…why are they so serious? No one is laughing?” This simpleRead More
PARAGUAY, Julio Giménez • “Yvaga o huguaiti ore rekove, peicha añandu che angue pyhare”, in Guaraní this means “Encountering heaven in our lives” describes the feeling experienced that night in the Youth Shrine, something like a spell, a magical night. That vigorous, mobilizing life filled with spirituality, filled with song and enchantment represented by a group of men and women united through the talent of music, especially music of spiritual content, in generous giving of time, rehearsal after rehearsal. The motors behind the initiative Behind this feeling there is aRead More
LATIN AMERICA, José Argüello and editorial team• They are on the way! Amidst the great news about the Pope’s visit to Chile and Peru, and the theft of the MTA crown in Bellavista, in this year of the Youth and the first Synod about the Youth, another large event almost got lost: Mary’s Crusade, a Boys’ Youth from South America project. They congregated at the Mendoza Shrine in Argentina on the afternoon of Friday, 19 January. They celebrated the Mass of sending forth, then they departed on 20 January toRead More
SPAIN, Vicky Forn • At the beginning of 1999, we spoke with Fr. Carlos Padilla about the possibility of undertaking some kind of social work as Schoenstatters in Madrid. During his year as a seminarian, he had worked in Puente Alto in Santiago, Chile, in a very disadvantaged area where María Ayuda had a school, and he was enthused with the idea. In May 1999, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the 31st of May, many of us were in Bellavista, and we learned more about the initiativesRead More
PARAGUAY, Joaquín Santiviago • Joaquín Santiviago, the director of Coro Alegría, relates about the mission of this choir and its objectives. Some time ago, the Joseph Kentenich Foundation took the initiative of offering everyone the prayer of the Holy Rosary to cultivate the spirit in daily life. In this way, this encounter with the God of life will become more concrete through the contemplation of the mysteries of Jesus’ life and his mother. Mary. During this prayer, the Glorious, Joyful, Sorrowful and Luminous mysteries reveal the life of him, whoRead More
Franz Reinisch
GERMANY, Maria Fischer • “If you get involved with him, you can’t turn back. He is dangerous because he is unbribable and relentless when the truth and the voice of the conscience are at stake. The way he stood at the scaffold is a sign of protest against every form of opportunism and bootlicking”. These were the words of Fr Martin Emge, regional dean in Forchheim in the Archdiocese of Bamberg when I spoke to him about Franz Rsinisch.  “He really captures you. My first conscious experiences with Fr FranzRead More
PARAGUAY, Andrea Blasco • I’ve received one of the greatest blessings a person can ask for. I found a place where people can abandon their inconveniences, their conflicts, and their problems, and learn to entrust themselves fully and completely to Mother Mary’s hands. Somewhere where they can be themselves for Jesus Christ. A time they can offer their whole heart so that God may bless others. The Joy of Schoenstatt During the summer of 2017 I received an advertisement that invited everyone interested to participate in an audition to enterRead More