PARAGUAY, María Luz Fleitas. A Mass honoring Mary, Mother of God, was celebrated in the Youth Shrine on January 1st at 15:00hrs. in which the college Youth prayed for special blessings as they departed on their mission to the people of New Colombia and Loma Grande.      Read More

Posted On January 10, 2012 In Covenant Life

Why should we be surprised?

Margaret Steinhage Fenelon. “How could this have happened? You’re so young!” I’ve been hearing that comment over and over again in the past weeks, ever since my heart procedure. I admit that it caught all of us off guard, including me, because it came on suddenly – as if out of nowhere – and yes, I’m a bit on the young side for such a condition. It surprised even my doctors. Funny, last night I chatted with another member of our Schoenstatt Family who has had multiple heart procedures, includingRead More

Posted On January 8, 2012 In Original Shrine

Update on the Original Shrine

org. Father Heinrich Walter, Superior General of the Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, in a letter dated January 6 – the day of Epiphany in many regions of the world – shares the latest news on the future of the Original Shrine. We publish the letter - simultaneously in five languages and on both of our websites, Schoenstatt.org and schoenstatt2014.org - and ask you to share it with those who do not have access to the Internet.    Read More
BRAZIL, Sr. M. Rosequiel Favero. A mixture of joy and sadness surrounded the Schoenstatters from Santa Maria after delivering the Original Shrine's Father Symbol to the delegation from Oberá, Argentina. "It's hard to believe the Father Symbol has been in Brazil since July," someone commented. "Time well-spent," offered another.    Read More
org. It happened on August 2011; an article by Agathe Hug, in the Spanish version (8-21) about the commemoration of the anniversary of Father Franz Renisch's death in Schoenstatt, (with a very good homily and with little participation caused a pioneer Chilean Schoenstatter, Juan Enrique Coeymans, to reflect: "Couldn't schoenstatt.org publish the anniversary dates of the deceased in our family, who are in the process of beatification?" Since schoenstatt.org grows from life, and it is a process of life, like everything in Schoenstatt, this proposal emerged quietly atRead More
Sister M. Damiana Czogala. The Holy Mass "toward 2014" in the Original Shrine on the first Saturday of the Year 2012 was celebrated for Poland; it was transmitted throughout the world via schoenstatt-tv. The Republic of Poland is in Central Europe. It has 312,700 Km2 of surface area, and it has more than 38 million inhabitants. Warsaw, its capital, is close to Vistula, the largest river in Poland. Warsaw has approximately 1.7 million inhabitants. Lodz, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Katowice, and Szczecin are amongRead More
Agathe Hug. Noooooo! Schoenstatters are not superstitious! And if they are it is just a very, very little bit! However, instead of starting the Mass with "In the Name of the Father…" Father Raúl Espina began with this observation: "It is said that the year that begins will be like whatever you experienced on the last day of year. Today, we can only hope that the Mass in covenant with the Philippines will not be a model for the year 2012." But, looking at itRead More

Posted On January 5, 2012 In Covenant Life

To Be a Bridge Towards Father

GERMANY, Alicja Kostka. Around the third Sunday of Advent (the joyful time), more than forty pilgrims from Oberkirch arrived. Years earlier, they had participated in the Milwaukee pilgrimage-retreat. They came from Germany, Austria, Poland and Switzerland to the Marienfried Shrine in order to share the treasure they had received during the meeting with the Father of the Schoenstatt Family and who they discovered anew in the exile places. Upon meeting, the Milwaukee climate was recalled - one of the participants affirmed - a fraternal climate that surpassesRead More