Mercedes Fellner. July 8th is the anniversary of Father Joseph Kentenich’s priestly ordination. One year ago, the Schoenstatt Movement celebrated the centenary of the priestly ordination of its founder on a worldwide level in Schoenstatt, in Limburg, in the Shrines, and cathedrals all around the world. In the Year of the Father Current, the first year of the triennium of the preparation for 2014, “we want this day to be very special,” as they say in Paraguay. It is the reason to express gratitude for his priesthood and his charism, which is in realized in his family today: in the projects, the worldwide currents, and in the formative and creative strength of the Covenant of Love lived thousand and thousands of times…
Let us take a moment to reflect on him and see how he lives today in his Schoenstatt as a Father, Prophet, and Pastor of all of us.
Interactive: Who is Father Kentenich for me? What in his charism attracts me? Share your reflection with others…and at the same time others can also share theirs with the rest.
For renewal: Priestly year and centenary of Father Kentenich’s priest ordination.
Father Joseph Kentenich – Founder of Schoenstatt.
Places were Father was.
In 1965 Father told us: “We must always remember, as if it were a kind of dogma, I never appear alone in the history of the Family. On one side, I always do it with a close attachment with the Most Holy Virgin, and on the other side, never without a similar profound, very profound attachment, with my followers. For this reason, I can certainly say that for me the “Nothing without you” not only refers to the Most Holy Virgin, rather, it (also refers) to my followers. At the bottom, everything that has developed is a joint work in a alluded sense.”
Spanish/English Translation: Celina M. Garza English edit: Melissa Peña-Janknegt
