ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • In the days leading up to June 20, the anniversary of the death of Manuel Belgrano, the creator of our national flag, various events are held in Rosario, the place where the flag was first raised. Many schools come from different parts of our country so that their students can take a vow to the flag. — The vow to the flag As they do every year, the fourth grade primary students of our Colegio Covenant went on a class trip to the city of Rosario,
Read More PARAGUAY, Ani Souberlich • At the beginning of this year, we have seen great changes in the immediate environment of Casa Madre de Tupãrenda (CMT): the departure of Father Pedro Kühlcke and his departure to Germany, the dismissal of several staff members for economic reasons…. But despite all these obstacles, we have seen rays of hope for the program, which in the six years of its existence has already produced fifty-four graduates, joined today by four others who, with many sacrifices, have reached the goal. — Each graduation is a
Read More URUGUAY, Providencia Educational Center • The methodology of Solidarity Learning and Service (AYSS) is an active learning proposal, in which students are the protagonists of the activities, using the knowledge acquired in other educational spaces to address the real needs of a community, working in it. Students who participate in AYSS projects, learn through experience, and perform a social action for the community. — Within the framework of the proposal carried out by the Children’s Club, one of the five educational programs of the Providencia Educational Center in Montevideo, second
Read More ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • During the month of May, the Covenant School’s pastoral team carried out an activity with the elementary students about our Blessed Mother inspired by Joseph Engling’s “Flowers of May”. — They were introduced to the personal history of this first congregant and his way of giving gifts to Mary. A picture of Joseph Engling at the School Throughout the month they offered different gifts that they captured in drawings of flowers that they gave to the Blessed Mother as a capital of grace. Just like Joseph,
Read More ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • In the days before the celebration of Pentecost, a group of students from the primary level of Covenant School in Gonnet received the sacrament of Confirmation in the Parish “Our Lady of the Visitation”, to which our School belongs. — As part of the preparation, each one of them decorated their confirmation candle with a drawing they designed themselves. In it, they captured their personal characteristics linked to the mission that each one felt they have to give to God to conquer a better world. Flame
Read More ITALY, Eugenio Minici and Vanda Rebuffat • On the afternoon of the 19th of May, the Café for Couples took place in the Parish of the Patron Saints in Rome, under the direction of the Schoenstatt Fathers. It is an offer of an afternoon of rest and deepening of unity as a couple, of walking together and of original freshness. — The day began with the “couples’ game”, questions for the couples to get to know each other better in the group of couples present. After the game, some themes
Read More CHILE, iglesia.cl / Fr. José Luis Correa • Pope Francis has appointed as bishop of Calama the priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, until now pastor of La Sagrada Familia in the city of Los Angeles and advisor to the Madrugadores. — The priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, was born on November 13, 1970 in El Huachi, rural sector of Santa Bárbara, Biobío region; being the third of six siblings. He received his elementary education in a rural school in Santa Barbara and his secondary education in the Liceo A-59 of
Read More GERMANY, Peter Hagmann • In this second evening of the Men’s Workshop trilogy “Life crises that led to faith”, Milan recounts his journey: As a Croat in Bosnia, he was brought up as a Christian, but in his environment the Christian faith did not have much importance and this lasted for a long time. — Due to the bad environment, his life went off the rails. He experienced all kinds of drugs that led him straight to addiction: from hashish to heroin to synthetic drugs and alcohol. Again and again
Read More PUERTO RICO, PARAGUAY, GERMANY, Edgardo L. Rivera • During the weekend of April 28th to May 1st, the missionary motorcyclists from Germany, Paraguay and Puerto Rico went on pilgrimage with the Blessed Mother through the highways of their countries. It seems that they planned it, but no, it was all the work of the Holy Spirit who, through the Heart of Mary, moved them to carry out the mission. — The third grace received in the Schoenstatt Shrines, the apostolic sending forth, leads us to go out of our comfort
Read More MEXICO, Gabriela de la Garza • Time flies when you are doing something you love! Eight years ago, a group of women from the women’s pillar of Schoenstatt Monterrey, came together dreaming of being able to offer a space where many more like us, could take a break from their busy lives, reconnect with themselves, learn new tools that they could easily apply in their daily lives and at the same time, share experiences with other women who seek to grow and transcend. — This is how Ándale María (Come
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