ARGENTINA, Mónica Jendrzejczyk. As I went to look for paraffin to make candle souvenirs for the missionaries’ pilgrimage from San Justo to the National Shrine, I passed by a Chapel where Father Pablo Caruso of the Fatima Parish was helping the masons in the construction. I took two steps, and I returned. Remembering Father Kentenich’s words: “BE DARING IN RISK,” I introduced myself as a representative of the Schoenstatt Movement in San Justo and this is how another door was opened for us. I went looking for the light of some candles and Mary had reserved something greater for me.
During this year, we have celebrated the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign’s monthly meetings here with the missionaries from different areas in San Justo. Some ladies, who are from Saint Cosme and Saint Damian’s Parish want to be missionaries because it is close and they wanted to unite with us, also joined us. The Little Missionaries, some of them already 17 years old, also wanted to join us. In this way, the Second Pilgrimage of the Year was organized with two communities…or more precisely, there were three since one missionary from the Saint Rita Parish convoked more than thirty-five people! Although no group has been formed in this parish, the enthusiastic missionary, with all her health problems, organized a monthly Rosary with the families that are commissioned in the neighborhood, which allowed many to seal their Covenant of Love on the pilgrimage day.
Queen of patience
Throughout this year, the capital of grace was offered at the Wayside Shrine presenting Mary with so many situations from our lives that require patience. We wanted to crown her Queen of the Covenant and of Serene Hope. Everything was going well until ten days before the crowning, a truck crashed into the Wayside Shrine. Days passed and there was no mason who could repair it. Three days before, a man had appeared saying that he passed by there often and he owed the Blessed Mother many favors. He was a mason; he offered to fix the wayside shrine. He finished the restoration the day before.
It was then we verified that Mary had chosen the title, and she had accepted our commitment and patience.
On that day, people came from many places; the Rosary was prayed just like every 18th. Father Raúl García celebrated the Holy Mass and then he crowned the Blessed Mother…
Original: Spanish. Translation: Celina M. Garza, San Antonio, Texas, USA
