Agathe Hug. “Mary, the new woman,” Father José María García chose this Mass text on Saturday, September 10th to celebrate the Holy Mass in covenant with Mozambique. This related very well to the prayer for the Woman’s Congress that was held that day in Schoenstatt and for Mozambique.
Strong women are needed. Mary, THE new woman is needed, to build peace. It is a peace that not only Mozambique needs, but rather, one that is needed in many other parts of this world.
What a cocktail in that jar!
Even before the introduction to the Holy Mass, Father José María García deposited the intentions for this week. The terrible drought in Texas and its wildfires and the prayer requests from the Schoenstatt Family there, the intentions around the 10th anniversary of September 11th, as well as for all the people who sent their petitions to the Original Shrine during this week through schoenstatt.org (Imagine this picture: what a cocktail in this jar!). Among the petitions for prayer, one had arrived from an Argentinean couple, which were praying for a child. This intention had been taken to the Original Shrine week after week, since the month of June approximately. Saturday the happy news arrived, the mother is pregnant. Now we can pray that the pregnancy will go well.
Peace
Peace was the theme of the day. Peace with and for Mary, the new Woman. The community, which from 1990 until 1992 had tried to establish peace for twenty-seven months between the sides at odds in Mozambique after the civil war, did not do it for economic interests, or political ideas; it was the Saint Egidio Community, which began its annual conference for peace this weekend, this time it was held in Munich. High- level German politicians attended the Workshop for peace in Munich. On Sunday, the president of Germany, Mr. Christian Wulff was invited. Angela Merkel, the chancellor, and several ministers were also invited.
But it is truly interesting who was expected in Munich from the exterior. For example: a member of the transitional government of Libya will attend if he can obtain a visa, the spokesman of the Al Azhar University from Cairo and the Coptic Patriarch from Alexandria, a theologian from the High Chiita Council of Lebanon, an emissary of the Muslim Brotherhood from Libya, and a bishop from the People’s Republic of China are also expected. There will be Buddhists and Shinto priests from Japan, ministers, writers, four cardinals, half a dozen rabbis, and the president of the worldwide Lutheran Federation. The Community of Saint Egidio has become famous in matters of peace; it will listen and observe.
Our Original Shrine, a place of peace? It is a good idea!
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Source: Schoenstatt-TV
Celina M. Garza /Spanish-English translation Melissa Peña-Janknegt /English edit
