BRAZIL, Sandra Lezcano. Ideas are beginning to take shape, projects are already underway, and this is all upon the Opening of the Triennium threshold, where each Schoenstatt Family will begin on pilgrimage towards 2014. The official opening at the international level will be on October 17th and the national level on October 18th. A special edition of the Schoenstatt Movement’s Tabor Magazine in Brazil has provided an issue with reflections and information about the great Jubilee that the Schoenstatt Movement will celebrate in the year 2014.
Let us take a look at the Magazine
The cover of the magazine leads one to imagine how that year of grace will be: the Shrine filled with pilgrims and the Blessed Mother’s allies arriving from every part of the world to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the first Covenant of Love!
Browsing through its pages different initiatives by the Family in Brazil are mentioned. Among them, this year, from the Diocese of Caleiras/SP, 100 miniature Shrines were made as a gift from Schoenstatt to celebrate Father’s priestly ordination; the shrines were donated to the Institute of Our Lady of Schoenstatt. These small shrines are attractively made taking two years of work to finish them on time.
Opening of the Triennium and its currents
Part of the working document that emerged during the May 3rd-7th Conference, 2010, in Schoenstatt appears on other pages of Mount Tabor. It took into account the changes suggested by several countries through their national presidency and the General Presidency to transform Message 2014 into a pilgrimage to Schoenstatt and then to Rome taking place on October 18, 2014. This document outlines the preparation for the Triennium and it currents, and how the Schoenstatt Family wants to live it. To obtain more information about this article go to the Schoenstatt.de web page at: http://cmsms.schoenstatt.de/en/k2014/triennium.htm.
Covenant Culture
Alexandre Mestre Tejo, who belongs to the Boys’ Youth in Londrina, wrote an interesting, two-page article about the Covenant Culture…the culture of being Schoenstatters! It is an article that reminds everyone of that Covenant, which so many Schoenstatters have sealed with the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt, and that has become a way of life, where everyday sanctity is sought by doing “ordinary things, extraordinarily well”. The article has already been published on our website.
Pilgrimages to Schoenstatt in 2014
On the page preceding the article mentioned above, there is important information presented by Father Alexandre Awi Mello, Director of the National Headquarters of Brazilian Advisors, which provides the details for the two large 2014 pilgrimages, the first one will be May 5 -25, 2014, and the second one will be October 12-27, 2014, which will coincide with the jubilee celebration in Schoenstatt (October 16-19, 2014), and then in Rome; for more details about these pilgrimages go to: www.tabormta.org/romaria_schoenstatt_2014.html and/or www.maeperegrina.org.br
Recommended readings
Sister Nilza P. da Silva also contributed to this edition of Tabor Magazine, motivating the family to read books like the History of the Schoenstatt Shrine, which will help them to remember the history of Schoenstatt and the Original Shrine, and in leading people towards a spiritual pilgrimage, she recommended the Novena: Let’s Go to the Shrine. As Sister Nitza wrote, these are books will help us to return to the roots of our Schoenstatt charism.
The pilgrimage towards the Great Jubilee has already started
Among the important events that were cited in this special edition was the visit of the Father Symbol to Brazil in the year 2011. The Father Symbol has been on pilgrimage throughout the world since July 8, 2009.
These are great events for the Schoenstatt Family and many different countries are already preparing spiritually and materially, just like Brazil.
