Posted On April 10, 2012 In Original Shrine

The Original Shrine in April

Agathe Hug/org. April 1st will be recorded in the history of the Original Shrine as the day on which the Pallottine Fathers entrusted it to the Schoenstatt Fathers, as the legal leaders, for its free use. It is a transcendental, historic event that was witnessed by the universal Schoenstatt Family, thanks to schoenstatt-tv, schoenstatt.org, and many other channels of communication; the many comments on schoenstatt.org show this moment it was intensely shared. Other historic events that took place during the month of April are the reception of theRead More
org. "Father Marmann was just named as the new rector of the Original Shrine, and he is already under the protection of the Blessed Mother by giving her his face. And the best thing is that two ladies from the Mothers' Branch surround him: Mrs. Dümler and Mrs. Heinlein. Whoever is looking for Mr. Grober will find him on the MTA's sleeve," is what Rector Martin Emge for the Schoenstatt Family from the Diocese of Bamberg wrote. He invites us to personally verify it inRead More
Fr. José María García. Today, Good Friday, is a day of total surrender and sacrifice...a day on which, in the gesture of yesterday, the gesture of Jesus doing the work of a slave, kneeling before us to wash the dirt from our feet, is made absolute; He allows himself to be raised on the cross of scandal, making himself undesirable to his contemporaries, and He does this for our unfaithfulness and sins...for our most authentic and tangible weaknesses...and thus frees us from them.  His love of complete servitude has freedRead More

Posted On April 6, 2012 In Schoenstatters

A Loving Call from the MTA

Martin Emge. On 7 April seventy years ago Fr Franz Reinisch received his call up papers to the army. He had been waiting for this draft notice in his "hiding place" in Wegscheid, because it meant that the hour of decision had arrived for him. Yes, Wegscheid (which translates as crossroads) had become the crossroads of his life. His conscience forbade him to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler. "As a Christian and as an Austrian I can never swear loyalty to a man like Hitler. There have toRead More
ROME, Msgr Peter Wolf. On 1 April 2012 the Diocesan Ordinariate at Eichstatt announced that Fr Stephan Müller, Dean and Parish Priest, had been released for five years to take up his task as Rector of the International Schoenstatt Centre at Belmonte, Rome. Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke has in this way granted the request of Msgr Peter Wolf, Rector General of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, and given expression to his appreciation of the pastoral services rendered by Schoenstatt in the Diocese of Eichstatt, as was stated in theRead More
ARGENTINA, Mónica Jendrzejcyk. The day they had been dreaming about and waiting for finally arrived: March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord, the day of the "Child to be born". The 120 missionaries booked their places in November 2011 to make sure they would be able to visit the Shrine of God the Father, in Florencio Varela. But now there was a bigger challenge: fitting all the missionaries, youth, children and adults onto the buses.    Read More
María Elena Vilches. Saturday after Saturday, the Holy Mass toward 2014 is celebrated in the Original Shrine, spiritually uniting different countries where the Covenant of Love exists. In some cases, the Movement in these countries has a long history, in others; Schoenstatt is a seed that is beginning to germinate. The Holy Mass toward 2014 for this [past] Saturday was offered for Singapore, a small country located in the southeastern part of the Asian continent. Since October 18, 2009, the Pilgrim MTA has traveled to homes in theRead More

Posted On April 5, 2012 In Jubilee 2014

Palm Sunday in Schoenstatt

María Elena Vilches. On Palm Sunday, many pilgrims and members from the different Branches of the Movement met together at the foot of the Original Shrine at 10:20 a.m. to go on pilgrimage to the Pilgrims' Church, where the Holy Mass was held.      Read More