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Posted On 24.02.2011In Something to think about

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Margaret Steinhage Fenelon. I cut our dog this past weekend. I mean, I literally cut her! I was grooming her and intended to cut her hair but caught her skin instead, making a painful gash in her back leg. She yelped and jumped, whirling her head around and looking back at me in complete bewilderment.      Read More
Fr. Javier Arteaga. It was a sunny morning at the end of January in Coronel Dorrego, Buenos Aires Province. We had come here with the Family Missions from La Plata. The chapel at the San José School - our missionary Shrine - was abounding with missionary yearnings. We were ready to begin to visit the neighborhoods with the message of the Lord and Mary. After hymns and prayers, Sr. Eligia ( a Franciscan nun 90 years young) approached the altar, gave us a welcome as theRead More
mkf. The world-wide Schoenstatt Movement thanked Pope Benedict XVI for the confirmation of the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II, the great pilgrim in the footsteps of Christ at the turn of the century. This is how Father Heinrich Walter, Representative of the Schoenstatt General Presidium, details it today in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI. "His valor and his testimony have given courage to Christians in the world to be proud of being Christians and to assume their responsibility in the world."    Read More
Father Eduardo Auza. The world was surprised and awed over the amazing conclusion to the thirty-three Chilean miners who were happily rescued from the depths of the earth. We as a Schoenstatt Family united to this generalized joy, which was truly a triumph for humanity. The solidarity, the generosity, the vigor, the good sense, love, heroism, temperance, faith, and the many other virtues - in and of themselves, all of them very Christian - flourished around this situation that was transformed into a media and worldwide event.Read More
Sandra Lezcano. Since I was free for the afternoon, I took a short trip through Schoenstatt to the places that I frequently pass by time and again, but do not have time to appreciate because sometimes I am in a hurry.        Read More
mkf. Because of the grave political and social situation being experienced in Ecuador, Father Eduardo Auza, Director of the Movement in Ecuador, on September 30th - immediately after the beginning of the police revolt which provoked institutional chaos and ended in a violent confrontation with the military and the retention of the president, Rafael Correa, for several hours, and in addition to two deaths and at least 30 wounded - sent a letter to the entire Movement. In the letter, it can be proved how the CULTURE OF THERead More
ARGENTINA, Fr. Javier Arteaga. Recently I had been reading testimonies on the life and Work of Father Joseph Kentenich in preparation for a presentation I had to deliver, and I was powerfully gripped by the September 15, 1968 testimony of His Emminence, the Most Reverent Raúl Silva Enríquez, former Cardinal of Santiago, Chile.    Read More
ARGENTINA, mfa. Today, September 15th, anniversary of the beginning of Father Kentenich's new presence in his Family, we are looking back 25 years, when in 1985 Schoenstatt celebrated the centenary of his birth.        Read More
Francisco Grondona, Diego Asili, mkf. What is Schoenstatt's gift to the Church for 2014? "We are the gift, as a Schoenstatt Movement renewed in the Covenant of Love", is Father José María García's answer. A year after Conference 2014, Diego Asili and Francisco Grondona interviewed him on the contribution of Schoenstatt to Church and World in the context of the centenary of the Covenant of Love. This third and final part of the interview (first part here - second part here) revolves on Schoenstat's message to the church andRead More
Francisco Grondona/Diego Asili/mkf. One year since Conference 2014, Diego Asili and Francisco Grondona from the Boys' Youth in Argentina and collaborators of the Press Office, spoke to Father José María García, assistant superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers and in charge of Team 2014. They spoke to him about what this Conference means for Schoenstatt and what will be celebrated in 2014: the 100th birthday of the Covenant of Love. We are publishing this interview in three parts. It is also possible to download the entire interviewRead More