ROME, VIS/Amelia Peirone. The Holy Father today received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He also authorised, among others, the promulgation of the decree  concerning the heroic virtues of Sister M. Emilie Engel.      Read More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. As we celebrate the Year of the Shrine current  in our preparation for 2014, the Women’s League in Johannesburg has committed itself to going on pilgrimage to Africa’s first shrine.  Work and personal commitments prevented the whole group from going on pilgrimage together.  But each member has said that she will go in this year as her schedule allows. Four Women’s League members took advantage of a long weekend with two public holidays to make the 12-hour bus trip to Cathcart in the Eastern Cape.  TheyRead More
María Elena Vilches. María Teresa (from Uruguay) and Christian (from Germany) will marry on May 12th in Fussen, in the south of Germany.  They wanted to come to the Original Shrine for their marriage preparation.        Read More
María Elena Vilches/fma The Holy Mass toward 2014 in Covenant with South Korea was celebrated on May 5th, the first Saturday of the month of Mary in many countries.  Presently there is no direct contact with this country, but something is clear:  the Blessed Mother is there working. In Santa Maria, Brazil, they know that the Pilgrim MTA is present in South Korea, because many years ago, Bishop Wilhelm Wising took hundreds of pictures of the MTA into the country, and the English version of this website is always visitedRead More
María Elena Vilches. It has been one month since the administration of the Original Shrine passed into the hands of the Schoenstatt Family. On this occasion, it coincided with the beginning of the month of Mary.      Read More

Posted On May 6, 2012 In Original Shrine

The Original Shrine in May

Agathe Hug. The month of May is the month of gifts. A great gift was the return of Fr Kentenich on 20 May 1945 from Dachau. Vice versa, the month of Mary is the month of giving gifts to the Blessed Mother.        Read More
PORTUGAL, Maria de Lurdes Dias. The motivation of offering my time to translate for the International website was a desire to contribute, as a free instrument in the hands of God the Father, towards building a world where love, hope, and faith in God the Father is born every day, where we all love one another as children of the same Father and the same Mother, where we can all work towards the common good taking special care of the poor, the sick, and marginalized.  Such a world is builtRead More
ITALY, Maria Tedeschi. Once again, our "Madonnina" surprises us with her quiet and continuous work to conquer youthful hearts. The editorial staff of Schoenstatt.org received recently an email that we wish to share with you, as we were most impressed by it. The sender is Mirco, a young Italian of 23 years from a little village, Pioppo, in the prefecture and diocese of Monreale, in the province of Palermo, Italy. He tells us that how during the last WYD in Madrid he met a Brazilian who gifted him with a holy picture with the imageRead More