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Posted On 21.04.2014In Something to think about

Exsultet

org. Jesus’ call to his Apostles, after his Resurrection, to “return to Galilee”, is the call to re-read everything in the life of Christ “on the basis of the cross and its victory.. from this supreme act of love,” said Pope Francis in his homily during the Easter Vigil celebration on Saturday evening.  It is also a call to every Christian to rediscover their baptism “as a living fountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christian experience,” he said.Read More

Posted On 17.04.2014In Something to think about

Renewal

PORTUGAL, Fr. José Melo. Renewal is one of the characteristics of a jubilee.  It is a returning to the roots to restore your strength and to flower again in due season, becoming more fully what you are.  Spring is a good image for this creative vitality.    Read More
Fr. Carlos Padilla. Once again, Fr. Carlos Padilla offers a Lenten retreat for all readers of schoenstatt.org.  The first talk of the Lenten retreat – on forgiving and being forgiven – is available in both written and audio form.  “How did Mary forgive offenses?  How did Christ forgive those who were killing him and saw him at the foot of the Cross?  Forgiveness is generous, it liberates, it enhances the one who gives it and heals the one who receives it.”  Read More
Sarah-Leah Pimentel. In this Jubilee Year, we offer a Reflection-Pilgrimage for Holy week, starting Palm Sunday and ending Easter Sunday.  It focuses on all the places (geographic and our holy places) of Schoenstatt history: Original Shrine, Cambrai, Dachau, Bellavista, Milwaukee, Founder chapel, heroes' graves and Adoration Church.      Read More
IN FEW WORDS, Fr. Joaquín Alliende L. We know that our founder taught Latin in Ehrenbreitstein. He later maintained that he preferred that certain branches of theology be taught in Latin, for reasons of linguistic precision.    Read More
WORLD OF WORK, Carlos Barrio e Lipperheide. One of the greatest difficulties that leaders face in their work is to distinguish between the different types of challenges that they should deal with to achieve their goals. A very popular belief is that challenges can be simply solved by implementing technical questions. This belief - limiting as it is - is probably one of the greatest difficulties that a leader faces.Read More
IN A FEW WORDS, Fr Joaquin Alliende Luco. She was entrancing. He was handsome. Sharing a table in a cafe, or the like. That's the beginning of an advertisement on TV. Well made. Because it hit the nail on the head of one the shortcomings of our Chilean way of speaking and living. The young lady listens to him as he boasts about his academic titles, and in the end added a wonderful declaration of intent, such as, "I would have liked to do that."Read More
CHILE. We received this article from Fr. Joaquín Allende.  It is a poetic view of the Marian feast of the Annunciation within the context of 100 years of Schoenstatt.      Read More
ARGENTINA, Father Javier Arteaga. We are already in the midst of the Jubilee Year of the Schoenstatt centenary, and as a Church we are journeying through Lent, a time of grace and conversion, on the road toward Easter.      Read More
CIEES, mda. Motivated by the experience of the Second Ibero-American Congress for Business in Costa Rica in November 2013, Carlos Barrio e Lipperheide, from Argentina wrote “The Business Hymn” based on our Father and Founder’s prayer in Heavenwards, (The Home Song, pp.158-161) in which he expressed what an idea of a Schoenstatt business would be.  Read More