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Posted On 07.01.2018In Projects

A trip through the capital

CHILE, via www.mariaayuda.cl • On Saturday, 2 December, the boys, girls and teens from the homes St. Joseph and Divine Providence of Ovalle  (IV Region of Coquimbo, Chile), run by María Ayuda (Mary Helps) experienced a day of entertainment and adventure in the capital.  The day began at 7:30 am when the group of young people, along with members of the residential and counseling team of María Ayuda in Ovalle, arrived to the Cenacle Shrine, in Santiago, Chile. On this stop of the adventure they had breakfast, visited the picture ofRead More
PARAGUAY, Sady Fleitas • The IPS Mission had its annual closing on Saturday, 2 December, the eve of the first Sunday of Advent. We visited eight floors of the Central Hospital of the Social Security Institute (IPS) in Asunción taking the Eucharistic Jesus and his Mother, the Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother, with us. We were accompanied by the missionaries from the St. Pio Parish. That day we saw the most defenseless children, babies and children ages 2 to 12, who suffer from pneumonia, broken bones, surgeries and illnesses, whose parents giveRead More
CHILE, vía www.mariaayuda.cl • “La ronda de los amigos (The Roundtable of Friends), invite you to play. Come, sing with me and you will find many friends”, are the words of the classic Chilean childhood song. This was also the title of the annual María Ayuda: “Roundtable of Friends 2017”. The subsidiaries from the different cities of Chile (Los Ángeles, Concepción, Viña del Mar, Curicó, Antofagasta, Iquique, Temuco, Santiago, Ovalle and Rancagua), enthusiastically organized this large event with the objective to share as a family, to show the progress of theRead More
PARAGUAY, Agr. Eng. Martin Pereira Ortiz • At present the entire world is experiencing climate change, heat or cold spikes, hurricanes, violent rain, hailstorms, or prolonged droughts are happening more often. These natural disasters increase as a result of the imbalance we cause, or being realistic, what we previously called weather phenomena will be natural disasters in the future. In Paraguay, a small country of South America, a group of Agricultural Engineers, all of them Schoenstatters, united to contribute our knowledge, our hands and above all our covenant culture, toRead More
GERMANY, Renate Immler • For a long time it was just a dream, however the readers of schoenstatt.org already know what happens to the dreams of the Kentenich School in Kempten-Leubas. One day they come true, usually more quickly than we expected and often more fully than we could have imagined possible. It was a dream – to have a real stage for the Josef Kentenich School. Now it is there! It was financed by donations and built by volunteers. It was fittingly inaugurated by the Theater-AG with the playRead More
URUGUAY, Juan Andrés Nopitsch • The Providencia Educational Center in Montevideo, Uruguay, a great project of the Schoenstatt Movement in this country, concluded the first year of the implementation of the Responsible Education program of the Fundación Botín. This program offers tools to the educators to work on the healthy growth of the students, enhancing their talents and creativity, as well as their communication and sharing skills, to help them to be happy, autonomous and competent in solidarity. Preparing for responsible education       The joint road began in October 2016.Read More
CHILE, Patricio Young M. • Some time ago, I wrote a column titled “Madrugadores nos Madrugaron [We Madrugadores are early risers]” in Schoenstatt Vivo, in which I explained how they have made many of Schoenstatt’s desires a reality. I discovered everything talking with Madrugadores, since I had not participated in this current until recently. I had the honor of being invited by the organizers to experience their 15th Gathering, which was held in Chillán between 20 – 22 October. I decided to experience it from the first to the lastRead More
MÉXICO, Gustavo Glez • The long-awaited date for the 1st National Gathering of Mexican Madrugadores arrived: it was the November 17-19, in the Shrine’s Training House: “Loyal heart of the Church” in Querétaro. It was a long awaited gathering for the Mexican Madrugadoros. It was a tremendous joy to meet as a community of men from different states of our beloved Mexico: Monterrey, Saltillo, Chihuahua, Torreón, and naturally, Querétaro. The participants had a great experience; they experienced great unity, fraternal solidarity, and training. It was spiritual, communitarian, with songs, andRead More
PARAGUAY, Fr. Pedro Kühlcke and Maria Fischer • On that 18 October 1914, she promised us: “Then from there I will draw youthful hearts…” Then, when did we prove with our deeds that we really love her? When we go out to take the covenant of love as a covenant of solidarity from the shrine to the peripheries. When we open our hearts and allow that in our hugs, in our lives, in our deeds, and yes, in our material donations, she, the Mother of all men and especially theRead More
CHILE, Gustavo Hanna Crespo • Since 2012, seminarians from Major College have had a project of social insertion in the southern area of Santiago, Chile, specifically in the community of Puente Alto. In this same place, the Schoenstatt Fathers’ community has a school that takes care of children, teens and youths from this area. Puente Alto is where the Major College’s Holy Week Missions are carried out. The project consists in living in a house for one year with two or three seminarians serving pastorally in the catechesis of theRead More